Style: Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA

All Styles

Style Profile based on 169 recipes

BU:GU

0.89

Hops

9.5 g/L

Mash pH

5.57

Dry Hop

1.3 g/L

Typical Grain Bill

45% Pale
33% Pilsner
7% Wheat
7% Toast
6% Crystal

% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%

Common Additions

% of Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)

Hop Usage by Addition Type

g/L · median with IQR range

Bittering

0.38 g/L 1.69 g/L

0.75 g/L

Flavour

0.41 g/L 1.37 g/L

0.8 g/L

Aroma

0.66 g/L 2.73 g/L

1.32 g/L

Whirlpool

0.46 g/L 2.63 g/L

1.37 g/L

Dry Hop

0.75 g/L 2.67 g/L

1.37 g/L

Common Hops

% of Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA recipes using each hop

Dry-Hop Rate by Year

g/L · median with IQR range

2019

1.69 g/L 2.52 g/L

2.14 g/L

2020

0.86 g/L 1.5 g/L

1.16 g/L

2023

1.1 g/L 4.61 g/L

1.83 g/L

2024

0.64 g/L 3.41 g/L

1.26 g/L

dated Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

Common Fermentables

Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes

Common Yeasts

% of Specialty IPA: Belgian IPA recipes using each strain

Mash Profile

60% Single Infusion
38% Step Mash
2% Decoction

48 recipes with mash data

Typical Water Profile

75 ppm Ca²⁺
5 ppm Mg²⁺
10 ppm Na⁺
50 ppm Cl⁻
150 ppm SO₄²⁻
100 ppm HCO₃⁻

median across recipes with a declared water profile

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