Roasted Barley
BJCP 2021 15B describes roasted barley in Dublin-type stout and dark roasted grains in characteristic ingredients.
Style concept
Irish Stout
A dark ale concept whose identity is dominated by roasted grain character, firm dryness or bitterness, and relatively restrained hop aroma.
BEU identity
Where this concept sits
- Fermentation class
- ale
- BEU family
- Roasted Ale Traditions
- Place relationship
- Ireland
BEU normalized profile
Strength signal2/5
Bitterness signal3/5
Hop expression1/5
Malt expression3/5
Roast signal5/5
Sourness signal0/5
Fermentation expression1/5
Body signal2/5
Carbonation signal2/5
Plural taxonomy
How external systems classify it
A mapping says how this BEU concept relates to a specific external entry in a specific edition. It does not make that external system Beer Universe's master hierarchy.
| System | Edition | Entry | Mapping | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BJCP Beer Style Guidelines | 2021 | 15B Irish Stout | exact | source record |
| Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines | 2026 | Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout | close | source record |
Ingredient Genome
Source-supported ingredient connections
These are convention links from current evidence, not recipe requirements or claims that other ingredients are inappropriate.
Process & Fermentation
Source-supported process connections
BEU007 links broad process identities where current evidence supports the convention. These are not complete production specifications.
No BEU007 process relationship has been asserted for this style yet.
Flavor Compass
Contextual sensory connections
These BEU008 links say a descriptor can be characteristic in this style context. They are not universal requirements, defect verdicts, or quality scores.
Roast-like
Roast-like character is conventionally associated with Irish Stout style context.
Beer Atlas
Geographic context for this style
Place, brewing tradition, and legal designation remain separate identity layers. These links provide sourced discovery context rather than exclusivity.
place
Ireland
brewing tradition
Irish Stout Tradition
Time Cellar
Historical anchors connected to this style
These BEU009 links provide sourced historical context without claiming a single event “invented” the style.
No BEU009 historical anchor is asserted for this style yet.
Profile neighbors
Compare nearby and contrasting concepts
These neighbors are calculated from the BEU profile only. The score is a discovery heuristic, not a taste percentage or quality judgment.
82/100 · close
Munich Helles
Roast signal Δ5 · Bitterness signal Δ1
82/100 · close
Vienna Lager
Roast signal Δ4 · Bitterness signal Δ1
76/100 · close
German Pils
Roast signal Δ5 · Hop expression Δ2
Generation C · actor graph
People, breweries & institutions
Identity-specific links only: companies, brands, production sites, institutions, and people remain separate nodes.
brand identity
Guinness
Guinness represented as a beer brand identity within Diageo’s beer portfolio, not as a legal company or a single physical brewery.
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sensory descriptor
Roast-like
A roasted, dark-grain-associated aroma/flavor descriptor; intensity and desirability depend strongly on style and recipe context.
Navigation heuristic: 43. semantic 16 + evidence 8 + verification 8 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
characteristic_of · reverse
Roast-like — characteristic of → Irish Stout. This explanation is being viewed from the target side of the directed relationship.
Contextual style association only; this does not make the descriptor mandatory or a quality criterion. Roast-like character is conventionally associated with Irish Stout style context.
Evidence: BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines · 2026 Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines
place
Ireland
Navigation heuristic: 41. semantic 16 + evidence 8 + verification 6 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
originated_in · forward
Irish Stout — originated in → Ireland.
Origin scope is only as precise as the cited evidence and place identity. Irish Stout is geographically contextualized to Ireland at foundation level.
Evidence: BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines · 2026 Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines
brewing tradition
Irish Stout Tradition
Irish Stout Tradition as a Beer Atlas cultural/technical discovery layer.
Navigation heuristic: 41. semantic 16 + evidence 8 + verification 6 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
tradition_includes · reverse
Irish Stout Tradition — tradition includes → Irish Stout. This explanation is being viewed from the target side of the directed relationship.
Brewing tradition includes or strongly contextualizes the target practice/entity under cited historical or institutional evidence. Entity is included as a representative, source-supported expression/context of this Beer Atlas tradition; inclusion is not exclusivity.
Evidence: BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines · 2026 Brewers Association Beer Style Guidelines
ingredient
Roasted Barley
Roasted unmalted barley ingredient identity; kept distinct from roasted malt.
Navigation heuristic: 39. semantic 16 + evidence 4 + verification 8 + confidence 5 + cross-type 3 + route 3 + extra-relations 0
commonly_uses · forward
Irish Stout — commonly uses → Roasted Barley.
Style/process commonly uses an ingredient; convention rather than mandatory recipe law. BJCP 2021 15B describes roasted barley in Dublin-type stout and dark roasted grains in characteristic ingredients.
Evidence: BJCP 2021 Beer Style Guidelines