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Styles · Hazy IPA

Beer style · BJCP 2021 21C

Hazy IPA

IPA

Representative The guidelines publish this style’s ranges per variant or not at all, so these are a representative envelope instead.

Original gravity
1.060–1.085
Final gravity
1.011–1.018
Bitterness
25–60 IBU
Color
3–7 SRM (6–14 EBC)
Alcohol
6.0–9.0 % ABV

What it is

BJCP's 2021 name for what brewers call the juicy, hazy or New England IPA: opaque, soft and pillowy, with huge tropical and stone-fruit hop aroma from late and dry hopping. Bitterness is deliberately restrained and the mouthfeel full, so it drinks fruity rather than sharp.

Flavor

What a Hazy IPA 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

Citrus, tropical and stone fruit, with room for berry, resin/pine, floral or earthy/woody.

Malt

Grainy, with room for bready/biscuit or sweet/honey.

Fermentation

Fruity esters and clean.

Hops that suit it

The traditional choice

What Hazy IPA 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.

And 78 more hops whose character fits. These are the 24 that fit best.

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 65 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.