A reading guide for tap lists. Named beers below show how a public host formats a row, captured 2026-08-31. Open the cited URL or the chalkboard in the room for what is actually pouring.
A tap list is the menu of what that room is pouring. Orlando rooms publish it on a chalkboard, a printed card, a TV, or a public web page. The useful work is the same in every format: read the name, the style, and the ABV, then decide whether that beer is house or guest.
The three columns that matter
Most boards, printed or online, use some version of three columns. Extra columns (IBU, pour size, price, "nitro") are optional. If a board is missing a column, that is a fact about the board, not a prompt to guess.
| Column | What it is | What it is not |
|---|---|---|
| Name | The beer's own title on that board. Examples from cited hosts: "Park Hopp'r," "First Flight," "Iron Bend." | Not the brewery name, and not a promise it is still pouring an hour later. |
| Style | The family the room claims: pilsner, IPA, stout, Kolsch, hefeweizen. The BJCP Style Guidelines are the public reference for what those family names usually mean in judging and education. | Not a tasting note, and not a ranking. A board can use a looser word than BJCP does. |
| ABV | Alcohol by volume, as printed. It is the strength number for that beer. | Not IBU, not calories, and not "how it will drink on a patio." If the board omits ABV, do not invent one. |
| IBU | Bitterness units the room printed. See What IBU prints on a board. | Not ABV, and not a promise of perceived bitterness on a hazy. |
Worked example: a public Name / Style / ABV table
Ten10 Brewing Company publishes a brews page that already uses those columns. It groups beers as Light, Hoppy, Dark, and Sour. Each row has Brew Name, Style, ABV, and Pour. That page is the host's list. Three rows from it on 2026-08-31 show how the columns work together. They are not a live tap list for this site:
| Name | Style | ABV |
|---|---|---|
| Subtropic Saint | Kolsch | 4.8% |
| First Flight | IPA | 5.5% |
| Sentinel Star Stout | Milk Stout | 6% |
Read across: a Kolsch at 4.8% is a different family and a different strength from an IPA at 5.5% and a milk stout at 6%. The style column tells you the family. The ABV column tells you the printed strength. For what Ten10 is pouring now, use their brews page or the board at 1010 Virginia Drive.
When a host names beers without ABV
Not every public page prints the three columns. Ivanhoe Park Brewing names four beers on its homepage for the Boxcar variety pack: American IPA, Blonde Ale, Belgian Witbier, and Golden Pilsner. Those are style names attached to products the brewery sells. The homepage does not print ABV next to them. Treat missing ABV as missing. Look at the pack, the tasting-room board, or a later product page. Do not fill the blank from memory.
Deviant Wolfe Brewing does print name, a short style line, and ABV on its public homepage. Iron Bend is described there as a light American lager at 4.5% ABV. Again: that is what the host published, not a claim that it is on the Sanford board tonight.
House versus guest
If a board marks house versus guest, house is beer made by the room that poured it. Guest is someone else's beer on that same bar. A production tasting room usually leads with house. A brewpub or beer bar may run more guest handles. Redlight Redlight frames itself as an independent brewpub and craft beer bar. Guest beer is part of that format. Sideward says you can drink beer fifty feet from where it was made, with twenty taps. That is a production room talking about house beer in its own building.
If the board does not mark house versus guest, do not assume. The brewery's own name on the beer is the usual house signal. Another brewery's name on the same board is the usual guest signal.
Why the live board belongs to the room
Boards change. Web pages change. A saved guide cannot keep up with a chalkboard. Hourglass Brewing states on its public site that it always has over 40 beers on tap across Longwood and the District room on Curry Ford. That sentence is the point: their list is wide, and it lives on their site and in those rooms. This page does not mirror forty handles.
Same rule for every row on the brewery list: Ivanhoe Park Brewing, Ten10, Crooked Can, Hourglass, Bowigens, Sideward, Redlight Redlight, Tactical, Deviant Wolfe, Cask & Larder, RockPit, and Brewlando each cite a public host. Open that host for what is pouring. Crooked Can sits inside Plant Street Market. The market hall does not make this page a tap list either.
How "style" connects to BJCP
When a board says "IPA" or "pilsner," it is using a family name. The Beer Judge Certification Program publishes the 2021 Style Guidelines as the common public reference for those families in competitions and education. BJCP organizes beers into categories and styles so that a German Pils and an American IPA are not judged as the same thing. A tasting-room board is not a scoresheet. Take the room's style word. If you need a definition, open BJCP. Then go back to the board for the name and ABV in front of you.
For yeast family (ale versus lager) rather than style family (IPA versus pilsner), see Lager vs ale. For the hydrometer that produces a gravity number on a batch you ferment at home, see Homebrew starter kit.
Then leave this page
Use the columns. Check house versus guest if the board marks it. Do not treat this article as inventory. The live list is the brewery's public page or the board in the room.
Updated 2026-08-31.
Sources
- BJCP Style Guidelines. Beer Judge Certification Program, 2021 beer style guidelines landing page.
- Ten10 Brewing Company Brews. Public Name / Style / ABV table, retrieved 2026-08-31.
- Ten10 Brewing Company. Brewery and kitchen host, Virginia Drive / Mills 50.
- Ivanhoe Park Brewing. Homepage names American IPA, Blonde Ale, Belgian Witbier, and Golden Pilsner.
- Hourglass Brewing. Public site: always over 40 beers on tap, Longwood and District rooms.
- Deviant Wolfe Brewing. Public homepage names Iron Bend as a light American lager at 4.5% ABV.
- Crooked Can Brewing. Plant Street Market host.
- Sideward Brewing. Milk District brewery, taproom, and kitchen. Twenty taps. Beer made on site.
- Redlight Redlight. Corrine Drive brewpub / craft beer bar.
- Orlando Tap Works Breweries. Cited tasting rooms and hosts for this guide.