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Styles · Tropical Stout

Beer style · BJCP 2021 16C

Tropical Stout

Dark British Beer

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

Original gravity
1.056–1.075
Final gravity
1.010–1.018
Bitterness
30–50 IBU
Color
30–40 SRM (59–79 EBC)
Alcohol
5.5–8.0 % ABV

What it is

A strong, distinctly sweet stout brewed for hot climates, often warm-fermented so ripe fruit esters sit alongside the roast. Think of it as a sweet stout scaled up in gravity and turned up in fruitiness.

Flavor

What a Tropical 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

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

Malt

Chocolate, coffee/roast and sweet/honey, with room for grainy, caramel or dark fruit.

Fermentation

Clean and fruity esters.

Hops that suit it

None on character. The hops in this style 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.

And 82 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.