🍺 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

This list is in-progress. The older style-based recipes will be migrated here over the summer of 2026.