Style: American Porter
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.55
Hops
4.0 g/L
Mash pH
5.45
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.063
FG 1.015
IBU 34
ABV 6.2%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of American Porter recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 1.25 g/L
Flavour 0.96 g/L
Aroma 0.89 g/L
Whirlpool 1.36 g/L
Common Hops
- 23% East Kent Goldings
- 19% Fuggle
- 18% Willamette
- 17% Cascade
- 11% Northern Brewer
- 9% Magnum
- 8% Chinook
- 6% Columbus
- 5% Nugget
- 5% Centennial
% of American Porter recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 2.85 g/L
2019 0.17 g/L
2020 1.25 g/L
2021 1.03 g/L
2022 0.68 g/L
2023 0.25 g/L
2024 2.55 g/L
dated American Porter recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 31% Chocolate Malt
- 20% Black (Patent) Malt
- 18% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 16% American - Chocolate
- 12% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 10% Flaked Oats
- 9% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 9% Munich Malt
- 8% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 8% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 17% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 12% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 6% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 5% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 4% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 4% Nottingham Lallemand
- 2% British Ale (WLP005) White Labs
- 2% Dry English Ale (WLP007) White Labs
- 2% British Ale Yeast (1098) Wyeast Labs
- 2% London Ale Yeast (1028) Wyeast Labs
% of American Porter recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 82% Single Infusion
- 16% Step Mash
- 2% Decoction
% of American 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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