Style: Classic Style Smoked Beer
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.45
Hops
3.4 g/L
Mash pH
5.53
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.059
FG 1.014
IBU 26
ABV 6%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Classic Style Smoked Beer recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.97 g/L
Flavour 1.02 g/L
Aroma 0.68 g/L
Whirlpool 0.53 g/L
Common Hops
- 17% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 10% Magnum
- 9% East Kent Goldings
- 8% Chinook
- 8% Saaz
- 8% Willamette
- 7% Hersbrucker
- 6% Fuggle
- 5% Tettnang
- 4% Hallertau
% of Classic Style Smoked Beer recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2020 0 g/L
2023 0 g/L
2024 0 g/L
dated Classic Style Smoked Beer recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 20% Weyermann - Beech Smoked Barley
- 15% Smoked Malt
- 9% Briess - Cherry Wood Smoked Malt
- 9% Weyermann - Oak Smoked Wheat Malt
- 8% American - Roasted Barley
- 8% Smoked Malt (Weyermann)
- 6% Black (Patent) Malt
- 6% German - Melanoidin
- 6% Rice Hulls
- 6% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 12% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 12% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
- 10% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 6% German Lager (WLP830) White Labs
- 3% SafAle German Ale (K-97) Fermentis
- 3% Lutra Kveik (OYL-071) Omega
- 3% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 3% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 3% Octoberfest Lager Blend (2633) Wyeast Labs
% of Classic Style Smoked Beer recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 77% Single Infusion
- 19% Step Mash
- 4% Decoction
% of Classic Style Smoked Beer 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
Similar Styles
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