Licensing

BJCP licensing gate: PENDING.

The Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) publishes the 2021 Style Guidelines, the de facto reference for beer style taxonomy and vital-stat ranges. Original Function legal review of the BJCP licensing terms is in progress.

Until that review concludes, the styles published on lets-make.beer (currently five seed entries — American IPA, American Pale Ale, Stout, Hefeweizen, Saison) are written entirely from scratch by Original Function authors. Style names use common-usage names, not BJCP category labels. Numerical OG / FG / ABV / IBU / SRM ranges reflect the broad consensus across multiple primary brewing-literature sources (Palmer, Mosher, Daniels) and should not be read as paraphrased from the BJCP guidelines.

Once the licensing posture is finalized, this page will document the outcome — either:

• Derive from BJCP with attribution — style ranges and category names track the BJCP 2021 guidelines, with attribution shown in the footer of every /styles/* page.
• Original taxonomy — categories and ranges remain independently sourced; no BJCP attribution appears.

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