user2: Since there's so many varieties of beer, there's already a lot of questions on our site about the difference between them. What tag should we use? I considered creation a tag called characteristics on my question related to this but it seemed odd.
What tag should we use? Should we use a tag at all or will tagging them by the variants names be fine?

user8: beer-styles might be a helpful tag to have. Or just style/s, along with the appropriate tags for any styles mentioned in the question. (i.e. stout)

user26: I like styles or beer-styles, but the nerd in me wants taxonomy.

2: <p>Since there's so many varieties of beer, there's already a lot of questions on our site about the difference between them. What tag should we use? I considered creation a tag called <a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/characteristics" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;characteristics&#39;" rel="tag">characteristics</a> on <a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/28/whats-are-the-differences-between-an-ipa-and-its-variants">my question related to this</a> but it seemed odd.</p>

<p>What tag should we use? <em>Should</em> we use a tag at all or will tagging them by the variants names be fine?</p>
 8: <p><a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/beer-styles" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;beer-styles&#39;" rel="tag">beer-styles</a> might be a helpful tag to have. Or just <a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/style" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;style&#39;" rel="tag">style</a>/s, along with the appropriate tags for any styles mentioned in the question. (i.e. <a href="https://alcohol.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stout" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;stout&#39;" rel="tag">stout</a>)</p>
 26: <p>I like <code>styles</code> or <code>beer-styles</code>, but the nerd in me wants <code>taxonomy</code>.</p>
