Style: Irish Red Ale
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.45
Hops
3.0 g/L
Mash pH
5.50
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.052
FG 1.013
IBU 23
ABV 5.2%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Irish Red Ale recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 1.02 g/L
Flavour 0.71 g/L
Aroma 0.68 g/L
Whirlpool 0.68 g/L
Dry Hop 0.82 g/L
Common Hops
- 36% East Kent Goldings
- 24% Fuggle
- 11% Cascade
- 11% Willamette
- 6% Magnum
- 6% Northern Brewer
- 4% Challenger
- 4% Golding
- 3% Centennial
- 3% Columbus
% of Irish Red Ale recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 1.36 g/L
2019 3 g/L
2020 0.67 g/L
2021 1.32 g/L
2022 1.05 g/L
2023 0.29 g/L
2024 4.77 g/L
dated Irish Red Ale recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 15% Roasted Barley
- 10% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 9% American - Roasted Barley
- 9% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 9% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 7% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
- 6% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
- 6% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 6% American - Caramel / Crystal 120L
- 5% Chocolate Malt
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 16% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 12% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
- 12% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 11% British Ale (WLP005) White Labs
- 5% Nottingham Lallemand
- 2% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 1% Liberty Bell Ale (M36) Mangrove Jack's
- 1% Irish Ale (OYL-005) Omega
- 1% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 1% Darkness (A10) Imperial Yeast
% of Irish Red Ale recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 77% Single Infusion
- 20% Step Mash
- 3% Decoction
% of Irish Red Ale recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 80 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 20 ppm Na⁺
- 75 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 100 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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