Style: Fruit Lambic
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.18
Hops
2.4 g/L
Mash pH
5.48
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.055
FG 1.011
IBU 11
ABV 5.8%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Fruit Lambic 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 0.7 g/L
Aroma 0.31 g/L
Common Hops
- 10% Tettnang
- 8% Citra
- 8% Hersbrucker
- 8% Saaz
- 4% Cascade
- 4% Styrian Golding
- 4% Hallertau Blanc
- 4% Hallertau Mittelfrüh
- 3% Columbus
- 3% Nelson Sauvin
% of Fruit Lambic recipes using each hop
Common Fermentables
- 12% Flaked Oats
- 12% Wheat, Flaked
- 10% Wheat Malt, Bel
- 8% American - Pilsner
- 8% German - Acidulated Malt
- 8% Pilsner (2 Row) Bel
- 7% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 6% Acid Malt
- 6% Flaked Wheat
- 6% Rice Hulls
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 21% Wildbrew Philly Sour Lallemand
- 15% Megablend 2017 Blend (3278) Brewcon
- 9% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 4% Lactobacillus (5335) Wyeast Labs
- 4% Roselare Belgian Blend (3763) Wyeast Labs
- 3% Voss Kveik (OYL-062) Omega
- 3% Brettanomyces Lambicus (WLP653) White Labs
% of Fruit Lambic recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 75% Single Infusion
- 6% Step Mash
- 19% Decoction
% of Fruit Lambic 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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