Style: Wee Heavy

• 75% Pale
• 10% Toast
• 8% Crystal
• 3% Pilsner

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

• 95% Pale (83%)
• 82% Crystal (7%)
• 73% Roast (2%)
• 67% Toast (8%)

% of Wee Heavy recipes using each malt category (addition % in brackets)

• 43% East Kent Goldings
• 22% Fuggle
• 9% Northern Brewer
• 6% Willamette
• 6% Magnum
• 5% Nugget
• 5% Challenger
• 5% Golding
• 4% Cascade
• 3% Chinook

% of Wee Heavy recipes using each hop

dated Wee Heavy recipes with at least one dry-hop addition

• 24% Roasted Barley
• 23% Pale Malt, Maris Otter
• 18% Chocolate Malt
• 17% Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L
• 17% Pale Malt (2 Row) US
• 13% Special B Malt
• 11% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
• 10% Peat Smoked Malt
• 10% Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
• 10% Munich Malt

Colour = malt category · bar = % of recipes

• 28% Scottish Ale (1728) Wyeast Labs
• 21% Edinburgh Ale (WLP028) White Labs
• 6% Safale American (US-05) Fermentis
• 5% SafAle English Ale (S-04) Fermentis
• 4% Nottingham Lallemand
• 3% Tartan (A31) Imperial Yeast
• 3% American Ale (1056) Wyeast Labs
• 2% California Ale (WLP001) White Labs
• 2% Irish Ale (1084) Wyeast Labs
• 1% Empire Ale (M15) Mangrove Jack's

% of Wee Heavy recipes using each strain

• 75% Single Infusion
• 16% Step Mash
• 9% Decoction

% of Wee Heavy recipes with mash data

• 100 ppm Ca²⁺
• 18 ppm Mg²⁺
• 20 ppm Na⁺
• 45 ppm Cl⁻
• 105 ppm SO₄²⁻
• 235 ppm HCO₃⁻

median across recipes with a declared water profile