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Brad
 
Evening all!
Putting together a Heritage Mild new and old. How do I update my profiles section to get the classification? I found English Mild Dark, but that is not the number I am looking for.
Any help would be appreciated!
 
The styles are defined by the BJCP (bjcp.org) and not me. For styles that don't fit into a single category they often recommend entering them as a specialty beer.
 
I don’t think so as the new style guide was just added a year ago, if you don’t have it the 2021 style guide is avail as an add on under File- addons
 
If you have data on what you want to make you can make your own style sheet. I have added dozens of historical styles to Beersmith.
 
The only hitch is that you want to set the guide field to the current guide or the style won't show up. Alternately you can create a new guide but you need to go to Options->Brewing and set the style guides to display if you want to show the entries after you create the first entry.
 
hivi786cc said:
For the BJCP classification, you might need to adjust the style category to something more fitting, like "Specialty Beer," if it doesn't align with a standard style. Have you checked the full BJCP guidelines for additional style categories?
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The BJCP is only relevant for competition. I brew a lot of recipes from historical records mainly from Ron Pattinson's blog Shut Up About Barclay Perkins and Edd's Beer History Bloke. Many of those beers... recipes taken from the archived brew log books... do not fit any modern style guidelines. My choices when building a recipe from those archives was to pick whatever guideline fit the closest and live with it or, after talking with Ron Pattinson about his process when using Beersmith, create my own guidelines. As Ron said, there is nothing more satisfying than building a recipe and having all the sliders line up properly in the green.
 
Yes, you can find drinks that blur the lines between wine and beer, either by choosing a beverage from each category that shares flavor profiles or by trying hybrid "beer-wine" concoctions. For a beer-like wine, look for wines with crisp acidity, citrusy notes, or herbal and savory flavors, and those with carbonation, such as certain sparkling or skin-contact wines.
 
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