# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Style Recipes

## Overview

The following recipes are style examples that use the beer engine calculator. The recipes follow BJCP 2021 guidelines. Style-focused articles from BYO.com and other sources have provided guidance. Beer-analytics.com is also a good resource for quantitative analyses of typical proportions used in beer competition enteries.

## Recipes based on style guidelines

1. Standard American Beer: "...everyday American beers that have a wide public appeal."
  1C. Cream Ale
  1D. American Wheat
2. International lager: "...premium, industrial, mass-market lagers produced in most countries in the world."
  2A. International pale lager
  2B. International amber lager
  2C. International dark lager

This list is in-progress. The older style-based recipes will be migrated here over the summer of 2026.