Style: American Stout
All StylesStyle Profile based on 1,813 recipes
BU:GU
0.62
Hops
4.2 g/L
Mash pH
5.44
Description
A fairly strong, highly roasted, bitter, hoppy dark stout. Has the body and dark flavors typical of stouts with a more aggressive American hop character and bitterness. History: A modern craft beer and homebrew style that applied an aggressive American hoping regime to a strong traditional English or Irish stout. The homebrew version was previously known as West Coast Stout, which is a common naming scheme for a more highly-hopped beer. Style Comparison: Like a hoppy, bitter, strongly roasted Extra or Export Stout. Much more roast and body than a Black IPA. Bigger, stronger versions belong in the Russian Imperial Stout style. Stronger and more assertive, particularly in the dark malt/grain additions and hop character, than American Porter.
Examples: Avery Out of Bounds Stout, Deschutes Obsidian Stout, North Coast Old No. 38, Rogue Shakespeare Stout, Sierra Nevada Stout
- 93% Pale (75%)
- 87% Roast (10%)
- 79% Crystal (8%)
- 43% Oats (8%)
- 32% Toast (10%)
% of American Stout recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
g/L · median with IQR range
- 17% Cascade
- 16% East Kent Goldings
- 14% Magnum (GR)
- 12% Willamette
- 11% Fuggles
- 8% Chinook
- 8% Nugget
- 8% Columbus
- 7% Centennial
- 7% Southern Brewer
% of American Stout recipes using each hop
g/L · median with IQR range
dated American Stout recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
- 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
- 20% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 11% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 6% California Ale Yeast (WLP001) White Labs
- 5% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 5% British Ale Yeast (WLP005) White Labs
- 3% LalBrew Nottingham Lallemand
- 3% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
- 2% English Ale Yeast (WLP002) White Labs
- 2% Darkness (A10) Imperial Yeast
- 1% Dry English Ale Yeast (WLP007) White Labs
% of American Stout recipes using each strain
- 78% Single Infusion
- 17% Step Mash
- 5% Decoction
241 recipes with mash data
- 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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