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Styles · Baltic Porter

Beer style · BJCP 2021 9C

Baltic Porter

Strong European Beer

Published ranges These are the ranges the BJCP 2021 guidelines publish for this style.

Original gravity
1.060–1.090
Final gravity
1.016–1.024
Bitterness
20–40 IBU
Color
17–30 SRM (33–59 EBC)
Alcohol
6.5–9.5 % ABV

What it is

A strong dark beer from the Baltic, usually cold-fermented, combining porter's roast and dark fruit with lager smoothness. The alcohol is substantial but rounded, and the roast stays restrained next to a stout. Long cold conditioning is what makes the strength disappear.

Flavor

What a Baltic Porter should taste like, on the three wheels the studio scores every recipe against. The shaded ring is the style’s range on each axis, from 0 at the center to 5 at the edge.

Hops

Room for spice or earthy/woody.

Malt

Bready/biscuit, toasty, dark fruit, chocolate, coffee/roast and sweet/honey, with room for grainy or caramel.

Fermentation

Clean, with room for fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

None on character. The hops in this style are there for bitterness and balance, and any variety whose aroma you would notice is out of place.

Yeasts that suit it

Strains the lab made for beers like this one, whose fermentation character sits inside the style’s wheel. A strain sold by several labs is listed once; its page names the others.

Style numbers, names and vital statistics are from the BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines, where you will find the official descriptions. The descriptions and flavor wheels here are Beerwright’s own. Beerwright is not affiliated with or endorsed by the BJCP.