Stout and porter

Irish Stout

BJCP 15B

Dry, black and low in alcohol, with a coffee-like roast bite from unmalted roasted barley and a finish that ends abruptly and asks for another.

Vital statistics

Each bar is drawn against the full range of all 98 styles

Original gravity

1.036 - 1.044

Final gravity

1.007 - 1.011

Bitterness

25 IBU - 45 IBU

Colour

25 SRM - 40 SRM

Alcohol

3.8% - 5%

Colour also 49-79 EBC

What goes wrong

Sweetness. The style is defined by its dryness, and a stout finishing above about 1.012 has lost the plot.

Commercial examples

Beamish Irish StoutBelhaven Black StoutGuinness DraughtMurphy's Irish StoutO'Hara's Irish StoutPorterhouse Irish Stout

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. Checked against the published guidelines.

Brew it

A recipe on this site brewed to this style

Every figure below is computed from the ingredients and checked against the ranges above before the page is built.

First batch

Dry Irish Stout

OG 1.043 · 4.5% · 32 IBU

The rest of the stout and porter family

13C

English Porter

4-5.4% · 18-35 IBU

15C

Irish Extra Stout

5.5-6.5% · 35-50 IBU

16A

Sweet Stout

4-6% · 20-40 IBU

16B

Oatmeal Stout

4.2-5.9% · 25-40 IBU

16C

Tropical Stout

5.5-8% · 30-50 IBU

16D

Foreign Extra Stout

6.3-8% · 50-70 IBU

Baltic Porter

6.5-9.5% · 20-40 IBU

20A

American Porter

4.8-6.5% · 25-50 IBU

20B

American Stout

5-7% · 35-75 IBU

Plan a batch to these numbers.

Bitterness Colour Alcohol