Here's a pretty good
**link** from THE MAN.
I think as far as a "standard baseline" for what each style should be, any of the trappist beers provide a good example of that for the "abbey ales", you can't argue with hundreds of years of tradition right?
As far as the lambics, I don't have a whole lot of experience with them, but I believe Cantillon is widely considered to make classic representations of the different styles. There are three branches of lambics I believe: fruit, unblended, and gueuze (a blend of old and new lambics that is then aged).
I don't know a whole lot about the biere de garde and biere de champagne either.
My favorites in the styles I enjoy are:
Quad (my favorite style)
Val Dieu Grand Cru
Rochefort 10
Pannepot Old Fishermans Ale
Kasteel Brune
Westvleteren 12 (all but one bottle I've had anyway :laugh: )
Tripel
St. Bernardus Tripel
Golden Monkey
Dubbel
St Bernardus Prior 8
Belgian Strong Dark Ale
Gouden Carolus Carolus D'Or - Cuvée Van De Keizer
Nostradamus
Nor'easter (definitely not a typical BSDA though)
Belgian Strong Pale Ale
Allagash Grand Cru
7/7/07 Vertical Epic
There's some other styles too that I really don't know much about, and don't really consider traditional Belgian styles.
Let me know if you have any more questions and I'll try to help Mike.
Edit: Forgot Saison, probably because I've never had one that I liked.