On the X-axis there is "Maltiness" of beer, proportional to the beer's specific density also known as Beer Degrees in Czechoslovakia
On the Y-axis there is "Hoppiness" of beer expressed in the International Bitterness Units
You'll see that the standard American Beer is "loving-makingly" close to water, very much like making love in a canoe :-)
The Russian invention, Imperial Stout, approved by Tzar Alexander the First for General Suvorov whose barefooted soldiers chased General Napoleon in the snows of the Alps -- as food and drink in one, is placed almost in the upper right corner.