Style: English Barley Wine
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.50
Hops
6.0 g/L
Mash pH
5.52
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.104
FG 1.024
IBU 51
ABV 10.6%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of English Barley Wine recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 1.25 g/L
Flavour 1.04 g/L
Aroma 0.94 g/L
Whirlpool 1.36 g/L
Dry Hop 1.13 g/L
Common Hops
- 46% East Kent Goldings
- 20% Fuggle
- 18% Magnum
- 8% Target
- 7% Chinook
- 7% Willamette
- 6% Cascade
- 6% Challenger
- 5% Centennial
- 5% Northern Brewer
% of English Barley Wine recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2019 0 g/L
2020 0.88 g/L
2022 0 g/L
2023 2.04 g/L
2024 0.87 g/L
dated English Barley Wine recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 21% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 13% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 11% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 8% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
- 8% Special B Malt
- 6% Chocolate Malt
- 5% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 5% Biscuit Malt
- 5% Munich Malt
- 4% Cara-Pils/Dextrine
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 10% Nottingham Lallemand
- 10% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 9% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 7% Dry English Ale (WLP007) White Labs
- 7% London Ale Yeast (1028) Wyeast Labs
- 3% Super High Gravity Ale (WLP099) White Labs
- 3% London Ale III (1318) Wyeast Labs
- 2% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 2% Scottish Ale (1728) Wyeast Labs
- 2% London ESB Ale (1968) Wyeast Labs
% of English Barley Wine recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 77% Single Infusion
- 17% Step Mash
- 6% Decoction
% of English Barley Wine recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 80 ppm Ca²⁺
- 10 ppm Mg²⁺
- 23 ppm Na⁺
- 67 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 143 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
Similar Styles
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