🍺 Top-down Brew: Style Recipes

Overview

The following recipes are style examples that use the beer engine calculator. The recipes follow BJCP 2021 guidelines. Style-focused articles from BYO.com and other sources have provided guidance. Beer-analytics.com is also a good resource for quantitative analyses of typical proportions used in beer competition enteries.

Recipes based on style guidelines

1. Standard American Beer: "...everyday American beers that have a wide public appeal."

1C. Cream Ale

1D. American Wheat

2. International lager: "...premium, industrial, mass-market lagers produced in most countries in the world."

2A. International pale lager

2B. International amber lager

2C. International dark lager

3. Czech Lager

3B. Czech lager - premium pale

4. Pale malty European lager: "...emphasize the flavor of Pilsner malt in the balance while remaining well-attenuated."

4B. Festbier

5. Pale bitter European beer: "...German-origin beers that are pale and have an even to bitter balance..."

5B. Koelsch

5D. German Pilsner

6. Amber malty European lager: "...amber-colored, German-origin, bottom-fermented lagerbiers that have a malty balance..."

6A. Maerzen

10. German wheat beer: "...German wheat beers without sourness, in light and dark colors."

10A. Weissbier, AKA hefeweizen

11. British bitter: "...English pale ales as a draught product after the late 1800s."

11A. Ordinary bitter

11B. Best bitter

11C. Strong bitter

13. Brown British beer

13B. British brown ale

15. Irish beer: "The traditional beers of Ireland"

15A. Irish red

18. Pale American ale: "...modern American ales of average strength and light color..."

18B. American pale ale

19. Amber and brown American beer

19A. American amber

20. American porter and stout: "These beers all evolved from their English namesakes..."

20A. American porter

24. Belgian ale: "...maltier to balanced, more highly flavored Belgian and French ales."

24A. Witbier

25. Strong Belgian ale: "...generally higher alcohol..."

26B. Belgian dubbel

This is in-progress. More style-based recipe calculators will be added soon.