Acronyms for Beer Geeks

For anyone involved in craft-beer forums or social media groups, you’ve grown accustomed to seeing acronyms used for breweries, beer terms, and beer names themselves. Here’s a quick cheat sheet on explaining some of the terms we’ve seen being used recently. How many do you know?

>> Beers

ADF: Apricot Du Fermier (Side Project) ANTEAD: A Night to End All Dawns (Kane) BAVSS: Barrel-aged Vietnamese Coffee

Speedway Stout (Alesmith) BCBS: Bourbon County Brand Stout

(Goose Island) BDBDB: Biere de Blanc du Bois (Jester King) BT: Black Tuesday (The Bruery) BVDL: Bourbon Vanilla Dark Lord CFP: Casey Family Preserves (Casey) FF: Fou Foune (Cantillon) FS: Fruit Stand (Casey) HT: Heady Topper (Alchemist) LC: Love Child (Boulevard) LPF: Lou Pepe Famboise (Cantillon) LPK: Lou Pepe Kriek (Cantillon) MOTS: Map of the Sun (Rare Barrel) Mvb:montmorencyvsbalaton(jesterking) PNB: Peche ’n Brett (Logsdon) PTY: Pliny the Younger (Russian River) SHRBL: Southampton Raspberry Black

Lambic) SITR: Sour in the Rye (The Bruery) V17: Veritas 17 (The Lost Abbey) VR: Vanilla Rye (Goose Island) VSB: Very Special Blackberry (New Glarus) VOTHD: Valley of the Heart’s Delight

(Alamanac)

>> Breweries

BL: Bottle Logic BP: Black Project CCB: Cigar City Brewing CW: Central Waters FW: Firestone Walker JK: Jester King JWB: J Wakefield Brewery MT: Modern Times NBB: New Belgium Brewing PAA: Prairie Artisan Ales RB: Rare Barrel RR: Russian River SARA: Sante Adarius Rustic Ales WW: Wicked Weed

>> Miscellaneous

ABV: Alcohol by Volume FG: Final Gravity FT: For Trade IBU: International Bittering Units ISO: In Search Of LBS: Local Bottle Shop MTF: Milk the Funk OG: Original Gravity