Style: Tropical Stout
All StylesStyle Profile based on 72 recipes
BU:GU
0.59
Hops
3.9 g/L
Mash pH
5.46
Description
A very dark, sweet, fruity, moderately strong ale with smooth roasty flavors without a burnt harshness. History: Originally high-gravity stouts brewed for tropical markets, became popular and imitated by local brewers often using local sugars and ingredients. Style Comparison: Tastes like a scaled-up sweet stout with higher fruitiness. Similar to some Imperial Stouts without the high bitterness, strong/burnt roastiness, and late hops, and with lower alcohol. Much more sweet and less hoppy than American Stouts. Much sweeter and less bitter than the similar-gravity Export Stouts.
Examples: ABC Extra Stout, Dragon Stout, Jamaica Stout, Lion Stout, Royal Extra Stout
- 94% Roast (7%)
- 94% Pale (78%)
- 86% Crystal (9%)
- 33% Toast (7%)
- 28% Oats (8%)
% of Tropical Stout recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)
g/L · median with IQR range
- 19% East Kent Goldings
- 19% Magnum (GR)
- 17% Citra
- 8% Cascade
- 7% Motueka
- 6% Galaxy
- 6% Willamette
- 6% Target
- 4% Chinook
- 4% Columbus
% of Tropical Stout recipes using each hop
- 21% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
- 18% Chocolate Malt
- 15% American - Caramel / Crystal 120L
- 13% Roasted Barley
- 11% Oats, Flaked
- 10% Belgian - Special B
- 10% United Kingdom - Maris Otter Pale
- 10% Flaked Oats
- 8% American - Roasted Barley
- 8% Barley, Flaked
Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes
- 13% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
- 8% Saflager Lager (W-34/70) Fermentis
- 7% Bohemian Lager (2124) Wyeast Labs
- 4% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
- 4% London Ale Yeast (WLP013) White Labs
% of Tropical Stout recipes using each strain
- 70% Single Infusion
- 20% Step Mash
- 10% Decoction
10 recipes with mash data
- 100 ppm Ca²⁺
- 10 ppm Mg²⁺
- 35 ppm Na⁺
- 60 ppm Cl⁻
- 70 ppm SO₄²⁻
- 253 ppm HCO₃⁻
median across recipes with a declared water profile
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