Style: Scottish Light
All StylesStyle Profile based on 139 recipes
BU:GU
0.30
Hops
2.7 g/L
Mash pH
5.51
Description
A malt-focused, generally caramelly beer with perhaps a few esters and occasionally a butterscotch aftertaste. Hops only to balance and support the malt. The malt character can range from dry and grainy to rich, toasty, and caramelly, but is never roasty and especially never has a peat smoke character. Traditionally the darkest of the Scottish ales, sometimes nearly black but lacking any burnt, overtly roasted character. Style Comparison: Similar character to a Wee Heavy, but much smaller. Similar in color to a Dark Mild, but a little weaker in strength.
Examples: McEwan's 60
- 85% Pale (82%)
- 63% Crystal (11%)
- 50% Roast (2%)
- 45% Toast (14%)
% of Scottish Light recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
g/L · median with IQR range
- 28% East Kent Goldings
- 14% Fuggles
- 8% Cascade
- 5% Northern Brewer (GR)
- 4% Southern Brewer
- 4% Challenger
- 3% Willamette
- 2% Golding
- 2% Nugget
- 2% Centennial
% of Scottish Light recipes using each hop
g/L · median with IQR range
dated Scottish Light recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
- 12% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 12% American - Caramel / Crystal 120L
- 9% American - Caramel / Crystal 60L
- 9% American - Roasted Barley
- 7% American - Chocolate
- 7% United Kingdom - Golden Promise
- 6% American - Caramel / Crystal 40L
- 6% United Kingdom - Roasted Barley
- 5% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 4% American - Carapils (Dextrine Malt)
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
- 10% Scottish Ale (1728) Wyeast Labs
- 8% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 7% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 6% Edinburgh Ale (WLP028) White Labs
- 2% LalBrew Nottingham Lallemand
% of Scottish Light recipes using each strain
- 95% Single Infusion
- 5% Step Mash
- 0% Decoction
22 recipes with mash data
- 80 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 20 ppm Na⁺
- 55 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 160 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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