You've been hearing this talk about Imperial yeast for a while now, and that's because

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Human beings seem to really like classification, and for good reason is it serves the purpose of

breaking large ideas and topics down into smaller, more manageable parts. Of course, doing this

requires some level of sacrifice as well as the focus on specifics and intensifies

whatever's in the periphery is more likely to be missed. When it comes to beer, there

exists a handful of classification systems. We call them style guidelines, the most popular of

which is put out by the beer judge certification program or the BJCP. You're listening to the

Bruloscopy podcast. I'm your host, Marshall Schott, and on this brews views episode, I'm joined by

contributor K. Job to share our unfiltered opinions on brewing to style. Yeah, brewing to style,

or using the style guidelines where you take away, and this is unfiltered opinions. This is not

an experience episode. We're not going to talk about the things that we do, our experiences.

This is unfiltered. We'll share our opinions on the styles, and why we think they are,

what we would like to see, how if things were different, what would they be like, and it should

be a fun show. Yeah, as you can attest, Kate, this is a topic I sort of struggled with when you

first proposed it for an episode. Then I realized my issue was due largely to the opinions that I

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