IPA
Brut IPA
An IPA taken to complete dryness with an enzyme addition, so it finishes below 1.000 and drinks like champagne with a hop aroma. Very pale, very effervescent, almost no body.
Vital statistics
Each bar is drawn against the full range of all 98 styles
Original gravity
1.046 - 1.057
1.046 - 1.057
Final gravity
0.998 - 1.008
0.998 - 1.008
Bitterness
20 IBU - 30 IBU
20 IBU - 30 IBU
Colour
2 SRM - 4 SRM
2 SRM - 4 SRM
Alcohol
6% - 7.5%
6% - 7.5%
Colour also 4-8 EBC
What goes wrong
Amyloglucosidase does not stop. It keeps working in the package, so bottle only after gravity is genuinely stable or you will make bottle bombs.
Commercial examples
Reference examples of the style, as listed in the BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines. Availability varies by market and year.
Vital statistics as published in the BJCP 2021 Style Guidelines. Not yet checked against the published guidelines: treat these ranges as a planning aid and read the source at bjcp.org before entering a competition.
The rest of the ipa family
Plan a batch to these numbers.