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Styles · Irish Extra Stout

Beer style · BJCP 2021 15C

Irish Extra Stout

Irish Beer

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

Original gravity
1.052–1.062
Final gravity
1.010–1.014
Bitterness
35–50 IBU
Color
25–40 SRM (49–79 EBC)
Alcohol
5.5–6.5 % ABV

What it is

A bigger, bottled-strength take on the Irish stout, with more malt depth behind the roast and a fuller body to carry it. Still dry and bitter at the finish, just with more of everything.

Flavor

What a Irish 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 or earthy/woody.

Malt

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

Fermentation

Clean, with room for fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

The traditional choice

What Irish 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 3 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.