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Styles · Irish Stout

Beer style · BJCP 2021 15B

Irish Stout

Irish Beer

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

Original gravity
1.036–1.044
Final gravity
1.007–1.011
Bitterness
25–45 IBU
Color
25–40 SRM (49–79 EBC)
Alcohol
4.0–4.5 % ABV

What it is

Black, dry and firmly bitter, with coffee-like roast from unmalted roasted barley and a lean body that finishes fast. Low gravity and high drinkability are the whole point.

Flavor

What a Irish 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 or sweet/honey.

Fermentation

Clean, with room for fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

The traditional choice

What Irish 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.