Style: American Light Lager
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.32
Hops
4.9 g/L
Mash pH
5.59
Dry Hop
0.3 g/L
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.052
FG 1.012
IBU 16
ABV 5.3%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of American Light Lager recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.75 g/L
Flavour 0.68 g/L
Aroma 0.95 g/L
Whirlpool 1.36 g/L
Dry Hop 1.5 g/L
Common Hops
- 10% Cascade
- 7% Citra
- 6% Saaz
- 5% Magnum
- 4% Amarillo
- 4% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 4% Centennial
- 3% Mosaic
- 3% Chinook
- 3% Columbus
% of American Light Lager recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 1.5 g/L
2019 1.58 g/L
2020 1.5 g/L
2021 2.13 g/L
2022 1.6 g/L
2023 1.36 g/L
2024 0.63 g/L
dated American Light Lager recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 19% American - Pale 2-Row
- 10% American - Pilsner
- 7% Flaked Corn
- 7% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 7% Flaked Oats
- 6% German - Pilsner
- 5% American - Carapils (Dextrine Malt)
- 4% Flaked Rice
- 4% American - White Wheat
- 4% Corn Sugar - Dextrose
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 9% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 6% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
- 2% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 2% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 1% Nottingham Lallemand
- 1% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 1% American Lager Yeast (WLP840) White Labs
- 1% Lutra Kveik (OYL-071) Omega
- 1% California Lager (M54) Mangrove Jack's
- 1% SafLager German Lager (S-189) Fermentis
% of American Light Lager recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 79% Single Infusion
- 14% Step Mash
- 7% Decoction
% of American Light Lager recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 80 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 25 ppm Na⁺
- 75 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 100 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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