Style: Sweet Stout
All StylesStyle Profile
BU:GU
0.43
Hops
2.6 g/L
Mash pH
5.43
Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG 1.064
FG 1.018
IBU 27
ABV 6.1%
SRM
Typical Grain Bill
% of total grain weight across all recipes · sums to ~100%
Common Additions
% of Sweet Stout recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
Hop Usage by Addition Type
g/L · median with IQR range
Bittering 0.75 g/L
Flavour 0.66 g/L
Aroma 0.68 g/L
Common Hops
- 29% East Kent Goldings
- 19% Fuggle
- 16% Magnum
- 8% Willamette
- 7% Cascade
- 6% Northern Brewer
- 4% Nugget
- 4% Cluster
- 3% Warrior
- 3% Challenger
% of Sweet Stout recipes using each hop
Dry-Hop Rate by Year
g/L · median with IQR range
2018 1.3 g/L
2019 0 g/L
2020 0.25 g/L
2021 0.24 g/L
2022 0.82 g/L
2023 0.63 g/L
2024 0.53 g/L
dated Sweet Stout recipes with at least one dry-hop addition
Common Fermentables
- 28% Chocolate Malt
- 25% Lactose (Milk Sugar)
- 20% Flaked Oats
- 20% Roasted Barley
- 19% Oats, Flaked
- 15% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
- 13% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 11% American - Chocolate
- 11% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
- 11% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
Common Yeasts
- 19% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 12% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
- 6% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
- 5% British Ale (WLP005) White Labs
- 4% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
- 3% English Ale (WLP002) White Labs
- 3% Nottingham Lallemand
- 2% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
- 2% London Ale III (1318) Wyeast Labs
- 2% Darkness (A10) Imperial Yeast
% of Sweet Stout recipes using each strain
Mash Profile
- 81% Single Infusion
- 16% Step Mash
- 2% Decoction
% of Sweet Stout recipes with mash data
Typical Water Profile
- 100 ppm Ca²⁺
- 5 ppm Mg²⁺
- 35 ppm Na⁺
- 60 ppm Cl⁻
- 53 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 265 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
Similar Styles
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