Style: Sweet Stout

All Styles

Style Profile

BU:GU

0.43

Hops

2.6 g/L

Mash pH

5.43

Style Guidelines BJCP 2021 Beer
OG
1.044 1.06
1.064
FG
1.012 1.024
1.018
IBU
20 40
27
ABV
4% 6%
6.1%
SRM
30 40
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
0.39 g/L 1.5 g/L
0.75 g/L
Flavour
0.29 g/L 1.36 g/L
0.66 g/L
Aroma
0.33 g/L 1.36 g/L
0.68 g/L
Dry-Hop Rate by Year

g/L · median with IQR range

2018
1.3 g/L 1.3 g/L
1.3 g/L
2019
0 g/L 0 g/L
0 g/L
2020
0.21 g/L 2.62 g/L
0.25 g/L
2021
0.24 g/L 0.24 g/L
0.24 g/L
2022
0.7 g/L 0.95 g/L
0.82 g/L
2023
0.61 g/L 0.66 g/L
0.63 g/L
2024
0.53 g/L 0.53 g/L
0.53 g/L

dated Sweet Stout recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

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

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