Style: American Strong Ale
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.84
Hops
8.3 g/L
Mash pH
5.52
Dry Hop
0.3 g/L
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.077
FG 1.017
IBU 64
ABV 8%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of American Strong Ale recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 1.43 g/L
Flavour 1.36 g/L
Aroma 1.4 g/L
Whirlpool 1.3 g/L
Dry Hop 1.45 g/L
Common Hops
- 24% Chinook
- 23% Centennial
- 20% Cascade
- 15% Columbus
- 13% Simcoe
- 12% Citra
- 10% Mosaic
- 10% Nugget
- 9% Amarillo
- 7% Magnum
% of American Strong Ale recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2019 1.36 g/L
2020 3 g/L
2023 4.07 g/L
2024 1.41 g/L
dated American Strong Ale recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 16% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 10% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 8% Belgian - Special B
- 8% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 7% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
- 6% Munich Malt
- 6% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 6% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
- 6% American - Caramel / Crystal 120L
- 6% American - Pale 2-Row
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 25% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 12% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 7% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 4% Dry English Ale (WLP007) White Labs
- 3% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 3% London Ale III (1318) Wyeast Labs
- 2% Nottingham Lallemand
- 2% American Ale II (1272) Wyeast Labs
- 1% US West Coast (M44) Mangrove Jack's
- 1% HotHead Ale (OYL-057) Omega
% of American Strong Ale recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 76% Single Infusion
- 19% Step Mash
- 5% Decoction
% of American Strong Ale 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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