Craft Beer Menu: Tasting Note Template

A craft beer menu has the opposite problem to a macro list: the guest wants to try something unfamiliar and has no vocabulary to pick it. Grouping by style name assumes they know what a saison is. Grouping by flavor does not, and that single choice decides how much of the list sells.

Four sections, sixteen lines, named by what the beer tastes like rather than what brewers call it: Hoppy, Malty, Dark, Sour. Each line carries ABV, IBU and the brewery’s city, because for craft beer menus the origin is part of the product rather than a footnote.

Bone and rust at 1280×724 is the reference build for 2026: flavor headers, two-line tasting notes, city on every line. It is the version for a room where people read the board before they reach the bar.

Pull the notes and the same sixteen beers fit twice as comfortably. Deep teal and sand at 1280×724 keeps only style, ABV and city, which suits a list that turns over fast enough that nobody would read a description twice.

Turned vertical at 1280×2264 in near-black and gold, the four flavor blocks stack with a one-line description of each category at the top of its section. That description is what converts a cautious guest, and it is the one piece a shorter build cannot carry.

A cooler door is not a wall: cream and forest at 1280×724 runs two narrow columns of packaged beer with the flavor headers kept, so the shelf reads the same way the taps do.

Section names, tasting notes, ABV, IBU and city are all editable, and the flavor headers can be swapped back to style families in one pass if your crowd prefers them. Other beer menu designs cover draft-only layouts, the wider library has more menu design free, and pricing comes from the point of sale — the same connection behind the digital drink menu that keep a cooler and a tap wall on one price list.