Style: Specialty Fruit Beer
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.38
Hops
2.8 g/L
Mash pH
5.45
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.055
FG 1.011
IBU 21
ABV 5.8%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
- 69% Pale (69%)
- 47% Wheat (29%)
- 39% Pilsner (60%)
- 36% Crystal (7%)
- 25% Toast (9%)
- 24% Oats (8%)
- 22% sugar (10%)
% of Specialty Fruit Beer recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.8 g/L
Flavour 1.15 g/L
Aroma 1.25 g/L
Whirlpool 1.37 g/L
Dry Hop 0.68 g/L
Common Hops
- 15% Cascade
- 11% Citra
- 8% Saaz
- 7% Magnum
- 6% East Kent Goldings
- 5% Amarillo
- 5% Columbus
- 5% Mosaic
- 5% Willamette
- 4% Centennial
% of Specialty Fruit Beer recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2020 0.51 g/L
2023 0 g/L
dated Specialty Fruit Beer recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 9% Flaked Oats
- 8% American - Pilsner
- 8% American - Wheat
- 8% Oats, Flaked
- 7% Lactose (Milk Sugar)
- 6% White Wheat Malt
- 5% American - White Wheat
- 5% Cara-Pils/Dextrine
- 5% Honey Malt
- 5% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 14% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 11% Wildbrew Philly Sour Lallemand
- 7% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 4% Nottingham Lallemand
- 3% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 2% SafBrew Specialty Ale (T-58) Fermentis
- 2% Safbrew Wheat (WB-06) Fermentis
- 2% French Saison (3711) Wyeast Labs
% of Specialty Fruit Beer recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 53% Single Infusion
- 47% Step Mash
- 0% Decoction
% of Specialty Fruit Beer recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 75 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 24 ppm Na⁺
- 64 ppm Cl⁻
- 80 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 100 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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