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Styles · Scottish Export

Beer style · BJCP 2021 14C

Scottish Export

Scottish Ale

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

Original gravity
1.040–1.060
Final gravity
1.010–1.016
Bitterness
15–30 IBU
Color
13–22 SRM (26–43 EBC)
Alcohol
3.9–6.0 % ABV

What it is

The fullest of the three Scottish ales, with a richer caramel-and-toffee malt base and enough bitterness to balance rather than merely support it. Fermentation is cool and clean, so the malt stays in sharp focus.

Flavor

What a Scottish Export 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

Hops stay in the background: none of their character belongs.

Malt

Grainy, caramel and sweet/honey, with room for bready/biscuit, toasty, dark fruit or coffee/roast.

Fermentation

Clean, with room for fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

The traditional choice

What Scottish Export has classically been brewed with.

Nothing else on character: the hops here 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.