Style: Flanders Red Ale
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.25
Hops
1.6 g/L
Mash pH
5.48
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.058
FG 1.012
IBU 14
ABV 5.9%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Flanders Red Ale recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.71 g/L
Flavour 0.75 g/L
Common Hops
- 29% East Kent Goldings
- 7% Taurus
- 6% Fuggle
- 6% Saaz
- 6% Styrian Golding
- 5% Cascade
- 5% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 5% Magnum
- 4% Hersbrucker
- 4% Willamette
% of Flanders Red Ale recipes using each hop
Common Fermentables
- 39% Special B Malt
- 30% Vienna Malt
- 29% Aromatic Malt
- 23% Caramunich Malt
- 19% Munich Malt
- 14% Belgian - Special B
- 12% Pilsner (2 Row) Bel
- 11% Corn, Flaked
- 10% Pilsner (2 Row) Ger
- 9% Wheat Malt, Ger
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 37% Roselare Belgian Blend (3763) Wyeast Labs
- 7% Belgian Sour Mix 1 (WLP655) White Labs
- 5% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 5% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 5% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 3% Flemish Ale Blend (WLP665) White Labs
- 3% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 2% BugCountry (ECY20) East Coast Yeast
- 2% Belgian Ale (WLP550) White Labs
- 2% Megablend 2017 Blend (3278) Brewcon
% of Flanders Red Ale recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 87% Single Infusion
- 13% Step Mash
- 0% Decoction
% of Flanders Red 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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