# 🍺 Top-down Brew: Beer Engine - FlexStyle

## Flexstyle recipe calculator background

FlexStyle is a combination of "flexible" and "style." These calculators provide guidance for style-based recipe development. These meta-recipes are based upon BJCP style definitions, quantitative analysis from beer-analytics.com, and style guidelines written by experts.

- Why? A deeper explanation about the vision behind the Beer Engine software
- A flexstyle example for an American pale ale
- Technical information about the inner workings of the software.

## FlexStyle examples

- Cream Ale
- American Wheat
- International pale lager
- Czech lager, premium pale substyle
- Festbier
- Kölsch
- German pilsner
- Märzen
- Weissbier (AKA hefeweizen)
- Ordinary, best, and strong bitter
- British brown ale
- Irish red
- American pale ale
- American amber ale
- American porter
- Witbier
- Saison
- Belgian Dubbel

## Other beer engine possibilities

- BEConcise: This compact variation of the beer engine has the recipe variables entered in a single field to ease the communication of beer recipes.
- Do it yourself: Resources for making your own calculating recipe pages with the beer engine software.

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