Welcome to BeerSmith! > Using Profiles and Styles

The Styles database contains a list of the beer styles to use when building recipes. The style guides are integrated with the Recipe Design Tab so you can choose a target style for your beer and BeerSmith will automatically compare key parameters for your beer against the selected beer style.

The default style guide displayed with BeerSmith is "BJCP 2008". This is the standard style guide for US brewers, though some overseas may prefer other guides.

New Feature: BeerSmith now has support for extensive descriptions of a style (the text is no longer limited)

Important Note!: BeerSmith supports multiple style guides, and by default only the style guides that have their "Style Guide" field set to "BJCP 2008" will be displayed. This can cause confusion if you are trying to add your own styles from the style view. To display another style guide or show all style guides at once you need to set the "Style Guide" option within the Brewing tab of the Options dialog.

Using the Style Guide View

o	Select the Style view from the profile menu or ribbon

o	From here you can add, edit or delete new styles using the large buttons on the ribbon

o	NOTE: If adding a new style, the "Style Guide" field must exactly match the currently set style guide option in the Options Dialog, Brewing Tab or it will not be displayed. Only the currently selected style guide will be shown both in the Styles view and when building recipes.