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Brewing reference

The numbers behind the beer, and the model each one came from.

7 calculators that name the published model they use, 33 styles with their vital statistics, and 20 hop varieties with the alpha acid ranges you actually need to plan a substitution.

The colour scale this site is built on

2 SRM, pale lager40 SRM, imperial stout

Most brewing calculators will not tell you which model they ran.

Tinseth and Rager disagree by twenty per cent or more on the same recipe. Neither is wrong. But a calculator that gives you a number without naming its model is giving you one you cannot reproduce, and that is most of them.

Styles

33

Vital statistics from the BJCP 2021 guidelines, with our own descriptions and the mistake each style punishes most.

All styles

Hops

20

Alpha acid ranges, character, and what to reach for when your shop is out of the one the recipe wanted.

All varieties

Yeast

10

Attenuation and temperature ranges, flocculation, and what each strain actually does to the beer.

All strains