Style: English Porter
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.49
Hops
3.1 g/L
Mash pH
5.44
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.055
FG 1.014
IBU 26
ABV 5.4%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of English Porter recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.71 g/L
Flavour 0.68 g/L
Aroma 0.67 g/L
Whirlpool 0.68 g/L
Dry Hop 0.66 g/L
Common Hops
- 29% East Kent Goldings
- 28% Fuggle
- 9% Willamette
- 9% Northern Brewer
- 9% Cascade
- 6% Magnum
- 4% Chinook
- 4% Challenger
- 3% Golding
- 2% Nugget
% of English Porter recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 0.95 g/L
2019 2 g/L
2020 0.36 g/L
2021 0.57 g/L
2022 1.51 g/L
2023 1.62 g/L
2024 1.98 g/L
dated English Porter recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 20% Chocolate Malt
- 12% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 11% Brown Malt
- 11% American - Chocolate
- 9% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 8% Black (Patent) Malt
- 7% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 6% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 6% United Kingdom - Chocolate
- 6% Flaked Oats
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 19% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 10% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 5% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 4% London Ale Yeast (1028) Wyeast Labs
- 4% Nottingham Lallemand
- 3% British Ale (WLP005) White Labs
- 3% London Ale (WLP013) White Labs
- 2% Dry English Ale (WLP007) White Labs
- 2% Windsor Yeast Lallemand
- 2% London ESB Ale (1968) Wyeast Labs
% of English Porter recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 78% Single Infusion
- 19% Step Mash
- 3% Decoction
% of English Porter recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 100 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 35 ppm Na⁺
- 60 ppm Cl⁻
- 50 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 265 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
Similar Styles
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