"White" is what we call wheat beer - like Hoegaarden.
"Brown" is almost certainly Ale - again... lots of different styles of ale (not all of which are brown).
"Black" I can only guess is Stout/Porter - also has several styles - although it could refer to dark lager. Would you call Guinness a "black" beer?
...I think I might make a beer thread.
that's correct, Hoegaarden are the most famous "white" beer makes. In German, it's actually called literally "white beer", "weissbeer".
Brown is Killkenny, Guiness, those Celtic beers.
"Black beer" (what we call "bière noire") is even more diluted, darker beer than brown. Quite bitter background taste. I've only tried one make, a German brand called Black Baron somebody had randomly bought I found in the fridge lol, didn't know "black beer" existed until like 2 years ago.
I'm reading about it here:
http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/oakham-black-baron/129345/
Those pompous beer tasters
but they do make good points. Can't remember if it's the malt in the taste that's a little overwhelming, one of those grains. Try it out if you haven't, it's always interesting.
For me beer is blonde though. White beer is somewhat like white chocolate for chocolate. It's fun, it's playful, it's even interesting sometimes but it ain't the real thing. And brown is just if I feel really exotic or am pretending I'm a tolerant guy who likes change every once in a while. Very rarely. I simply don't drink Coronas and stuff like that though, I'd rather stay sober. Dead srs, it's happened many times before, that's all they had. No way. I'll have water, thank you.
