Style: American Stout
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.62
Hops
4.2 g/L
Mash pH
5.44
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.067
FG 1.017
IBU 41
ABV 6.6%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of American Stout recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 1.36 g/L
Flavour 1.25 g/L
Aroma 1.36 g/L
Whirlpool 0.68 g/L
Common Hops
- 17% Cascade
- 16% East Kent Goldings
- 14% Magnum
- 13% Willamette
- 12% Fuggle
- 8% Chinook
- 8% Nugget
- 8% Columbus
- 8% Northern Brewer
- 7% Centennial
% of American Stout recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 0.63 g/L
2019 2.04 g/L
2020 1.24 g/L
2021 0.77 g/L
2022 1.5 g/L
2023 0.53 g/L
2024 2.72 g/L
dated American Stout recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 24% Chocolate Malt
- 20% Roasted Barley
- 19% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 19% Flaked Oats
- 18% American - Chocolate
- 16% Oats, Flaked
- 15% American - Roasted Barley
- 11% Black (Patent) Malt
- 9% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
- 8% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 20% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 11% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 6% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 5% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 5% British Ale (WLP005) White Labs
- 3% Nottingham Lallemand
- 3% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
- 2% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 2% Darkness (A10) Imperial Yeast
- 1% Dry English Ale (WLP007) White Labs
% of American Stout recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 78% Single Infusion
- 17% Step Mash
- 5% Decoction
% of American Stout recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 100 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 25 ppm Na⁺
- 60 ppm Cl⁻
- 53 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 220 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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