Style: Fruit Beer
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.41
Hops
3.1 g/L
Mash pH
5.56
Dry Hop
0.1 g/L
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.055
FG 1.012
IBU 22
ABV 5.7%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Fruit Beer recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.68 g/L
Flavour 0.68 g/L
Aroma 0.81 g/L
Whirlpool 0.68 g/L
Dry Hop 0.73 g/L
Common Hops
- 17% Cascade
- 9% Citra
- 8% Saaz
- 7% Magnum
- 6% Willamette
- 5% Mosaic
- 5% Centennial
- 5% Amarillo
- 4% Hersbrucker
- 4% East Kent Goldings
% of Fruit Beer recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 0.46 g/L
2019 1.06 g/L
2020 0.67 g/L
2021 1.15 g/L
2022 2.72 g/L
2023 1.65 g/L
2024 0.69 g/L
dated Fruit Beer recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 10% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 8% Flaked Oats
- 7% American - White Wheat
- 6% Rice Hulls
- 6% American - Pilsner
- 5% White Wheat Malt
- 5% American - Pale 2-Row
- 5% Honey Malt
- 4% Wheat Malt, Ger
- 4% US - Pale 2-Row
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 19% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 5% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 4% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 4% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 3% Wildbrew Philly Sour Lallemand
- 2% Nottingham Lallemand
- 2% American Wheat Ale (1010) Wyeast Labs
- 2% American Hefeweizen Ale (WLP320) White Labs
- 1% Safbrew Wheat (WB-06) Fermentis
- 1% Weihenstephan Weizen (3068) Wyeast Labs
% of Fruit Beer recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 75% Single Infusion
- 20% Step Mash
- 4% Decoction
% of Fruit 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
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