Styles

The Styles area is where you look up beer style guidelines and define your own. Open it at /styles. The page lists styles from one guideline library at a time (BJCP, the Brewers Association, or your own custom set), and clicking any style opens a detail panel with its vital statistics and tasting notes.

Reference4 style libraries·Updated Jun 2026

New to homebre.ws? The Recipes page and the Building your first recipe guide show how a style ties into a recipe. This page is the reference for the Styles screen itself.

Browsing styles

The /styles page shows one guideline library at a time, with a search box and a sortable listing.

Source tabs. A row of tabs across the top switches between libraries: BJCP 2021, BJCP 2015, Brewers Association, and Your styles. Each tab shows a count of how many styles it holds. BJCP 2021 is selected by default.

Search. Type to filter the current library by style name, code, or tag. The match is live and narrows the listing as you type.

Table and cards. On wider screens the styles appear as a table; on narrow screens they collapse to a stack of cards. Each row shows a color swatch drawn from the style’s midpoint SRM, so you can scan the list by color.

Table columns.

Column	What it shows
Swatch	A color chip rendered from the style's midpoint SRM.
Code	The style designator, e.g. `21A`. Your own styles also show a Custom badge here.
Style	The style name, with its category number and name below.
OG	Original gravity range, as a numeric range plus a mini bar. Hidden on narrow widths.
ABV	Alcohol-by-volume range in `%`, as a range plus a mini bar.
IBU	Bitterness range, as a range plus a mini bar. Hidden on narrow widths.
SRM	Color range, as a range plus a mini bar.

Every column is sortable. Click a header to sort, and click again to reverse. Styles with no published numbers for a column sort to the bottom regardless of direction.

How to find a style

1Pick a library from the source tabs.
2Type a name, code, or tag in Search to narrow the list.
3Click a column header to sort by OG, ABV, IBU, or SRM.
4Click any row to open the style detail panel.

Style libraries

The source tabs cover four libraries, each tracked separately with its own count.

Library	What it covers
BJCP 2021	The current BJCP style guidelines. This is the default tab.
BJCP 2015	The previous BJCP edition, kept for recipes written against it.
Brewers Association	The BA style guidelines.
Your styles	Custom styles you have saved. Each one shows a Custom badge wherever it appears.

If a library has not been loaded yet, its tab shows a coming soon message in place of a listing. The Your styles tab starts empty and prompts you to add your first custom style.

The style detail panel

Clicking a style opens a panel beside the list with the full guideline entry.

Header. The style’s swatch, code (with a Custom badge for your own styles), name, and category.

SRM band. A color gradient marking where the style’s color range falls on the SRM scale.

Vital statistics. The five number ranges, each shown as a labeled range and a bar:

Stat	What it shows
OG	Original gravity: the target range before fermentation.
FG	Final gravity: the target range after fermentation.
ABV	Alcohol by volume range, in `%`.
IBU	Bitterness range.
SRM	Color range. The swatch and SRM band use the midpoint of this range.

A style with no published numbers shows a note pointing you to its base style instead.

Tasting notes. Below the statistics, the guideline prose appears in sections. Overall impression, Aroma, Appearance, Flavor, and Mouthfeel are shown whenever the style provides them. Comments, History, Style comparison, and Ingredients are tucked into collapsible rows you can expand. Commercial examples and, for your own styles, Your notes close out the panel.

How it connects

A style's published ranges drive the in-range / over / under deltas on the recipe stats strip. Assign a style to a recipe and the editor flags whether its OG, ABV, IBU, and SRM land inside the guideline. See Recipes.

Adding a custom style

The Add custom style button opens a form that saves a style into your Your styles library.

Name: the style name. Required.
Code: an optional designator. Leave it blank and the app assigns one for you, like CS1.
Category: the BJCP-style category the style belongs to, chosen from the categories in the current libraries.
Based on: records whether you are starting from scratch or basing the style on BJCP 2021, BJCP 2015, or the Brewers Association guidelines.
Vital statistics: minimum and maximum fields for OG, FG, ABV, IBU, and SRM. Each shows a live range bar as you type; if you enter a minimum above the maximum, the app reorders them for you on save.
Descriptors: free-text fields for overall impression, aroma, appearance, flavor, and mouthfeel.
Commercial examples: reference beers for the style, one per line or comma-separated.
Tags: short labels used by recipe search and filters.

How it connects

Tags you set here feed recipe search and filters. Once saved, a custom style joins the Your styles tab and is available in the recipe editor's style picker, the same as any built-in style.

How to add a custom style

1Click Add custom style.
2Enter a Name, pick a Category, and choose what it is Based on.
3Set the OG, FG, ABV, IBU, and SRM ranges.
4Add any descriptors, examples, and tags you want.
5Click Save style. It lands in your Your styles library.

See also: Recipes · Building your first recipe.