Style: Bière de Garde

• 33% Pilsner
• 31% Pale
• 26% Toast
• 4% Wheat
• 3% Crystal

% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%

• 84% Toast (22%)
• 70% Pilsner (63%)
• 52% Pale (47%)
• 46% Crystal (5%)
• 30% sugar (7%)
• 29% Wheat (9%)

% of Bière de Garde recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)

• 14% Saaz
• 14% Strisselspalt
• 9% Northern Brewer
• 9% Styrian Golding
• 8% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
• 8% East Kent Goldings
• 8% Fuggle
• 8% Magnum
• 7% Tettnang
• 5% Taurus

% of Bière de Garde recipes using each hop

dated Bière de Garde recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

• 14% Munich Malt
• 14% Vienna Malt
• 12% Aromatic Malt
• 12% Pilsner (2 Row) Bel
• 10% Belgian - Pilsner
• 10% Biscuit Malt
• 7% Special B Malt
• 6% Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
• 6% German - Vienna
• 5% Honey Malt

Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes

• 6% French Saison (3711) Wyeast Labs
• 4% Biere de Garde (3725) Wyeast Labs
• 4% Belle Saison Lallemand
• 3% SafBrew Specialty Ale (T-58) Fermentis
• 3% French Ale (WLP072) White Labs
• 3% European Ale Yeast (1338) Wyeast Labs
• 2% Safebrew Abbey Ale (BE-256) Fermentis
• 2% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
• 2% Farmhouse Lallemand
• 2% Abbey Ale (WLP530) White Labs

% of Bière de Garde recipes using each strain

• 61% Single Infusion
• 25% Step Mash
• 14% Decoction

% of Bière de Garde recipes with mash data

• 70 ppm Ca²⁺
• 6 ppm Mg²⁺
• 18 ppm Na⁺
• 85 ppm Cl⁻
• 76 ppm SO₄²⁻
• 100 ppm HCO₃⁻

median across recipes with a declared water profile