Visual Reference Charts for Beer Styles and Yeast

[Oktober]

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Update: 3/2/2012
We've published several more brewing charts and I've added links to download the high-res PDF's that everyone has been asking for too. Check them out:Brewing Charts by Lug Wrench

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Hey All,

I had posted something similar to this on HBT earlier today, but I wanted to get this up on the BN board, as I appreciate the perspective many of you guys in the BN Army that I've interacted with in the past. I’m not exactly sure what got me started on this, but over the past month or so I’ve been leisurely building a series of charts displaying the BCJP beer styles and their parameters. Maybe I’m just a visual learner, but by seeing everything laid out in such a way, I appreciated some of the styles a bit better.

After a little prodding from my brother, I decided to post the charts out there for anyone to look at or reference. As such, I wanted to post some links to them here in the hopes that I can get some feedback on them. Anyone find them useful? Is there anything detracting? Anyway to make them better or improve the charts?

BJCP Beer Style Visual Reference Charts:

• SRM Color Ranges by Style
• IBU Bitterness Ranges by Style
• OG and FG Ranges by Style
• Alcohol by Volume Ranges by Style
• 'Apparent' Bitterness (IBU/OG) Ranges By Style

After I finished the BJCP Style Charts, I felt the urge to keep at it, so I recently started building visual charts for commercial yeast strains. Almost all are complete at this point, with a few still being works in progress.

White Labs Yeast Visual Reference Charts:

• Fermentation Attenuation Ranges by Strain
• Floculation Ranges by Strain
• Optimal Temperature Ranges by Strain
• Alcohol Tolerance Ranges by Strain

Wyeast Labs Yeast Visual Reference Charts:

• Fermentation Attenuation Ranges by Strain
• Floculation Ranges by Strain
• Optimal Temperature Ranges by Strain
• Alcohol Tolerance Ranges by Strain

Please let me know if you have any thoughts or feedback on this pet project of mine. You can either leave comments here, or preferentially on the pages linked above (as it’s a lot easier for me to keep the feedback sorted that way). Additionally, assuming I keep at this, are there any other ‘visual chart’ topics I might be able to tackle?

Thanks in advance for your thoughts – I’ll try to update the links as new charts come out.

Slainte!

-Okt

[SocietyDweller]

That's great! I was thinking about doing something similar but was too lazy.... I guess lazyness is paying since I won't have to do it after all......

[TheDarkSide]

Awesome work. Imagine if these were all side-by-side in a 22 x 34 format, then I could print them out on the color plotter at work and hang on the wall of my brewhouse. Just imagine

[Oktober]

Just shoot me an email or PM and I can send you PDF versions of the charts that are sharper/higher res versions if you want to print them out. For some reason, when I converted them into JPGs, the quality deteriorated a bit.

Thanks for the feedback.

-Okt

[TheDarkSide]

PM sent.

Thanks.

[BayouBrew]

PM sent about yeast charts.

[BDawg]

These are great!

[Oktober]

Hey BNers,

For those that are interested, I finished two more of the White Labs Yeast Visual Reference charts. Here's the updated list:

White Labs Yeast Visual Reference Charts:

• Fermentation Attenuation Ranges by Strain
• Floculation Ranges by Strain
• Optimal Temperature Ranges by Strain
• Alcohol Tolerance Ranges by Strain (to be posted)

Thanks again to everyone that has provided comments and feedback on this little side project. I should have the last one out sometime in the next couple weeks.

Best Regards,

-Okt