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Styles · Foreign Extra Stout

Beer style · BJCP 2021 16D

Foreign Extra Stout

Dark British Beer

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

Original gravity
1.056–1.075
Final gravity
1.010–1.018
Bitterness
50–70 IBU
Color
30–40 SRM (59–79 EBC)
Alcohol
6.3–8.0 % ABV

What it is

The export-strength stout: bigger than an Irish extra stout, firmly bitter, and dry in the finish despite its gravity. Roast is intense but clean, without the burnt harshness of an imperial.

Flavor

What a Foreign Extra Stout 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 herbal, spice or earthy/woody.

Malt

Coffee/roast and chocolate, with room for grainy, bready/biscuit, caramel, dark fruit or sweet/honey.

Fermentation

Clean, with room for fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

The traditional choice

What Foreign Extra Stout has classically been brewed with.

Also right on character

Varieties whose loudest notes all sit on this style’s hop wheel, best fit first. How much to use is the recipe’s question; these are the ones that taste right.

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.

And 72 more yeasts whose character fits. These are the 24 that fit best.

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.