California Steam Beer?

Australia & New Zealand Homebrewing Forum

Help Support Australia & New Zealand Homebrewing Forum:

This site may earn a commission from merchant affiliate links, including eBay, Amazon, and others.

falcon250

Active Member
Joined
22/7/11
Messages
40
Reaction score
1
G'day All,

Just after some recipe advice in regards to making a Californian steam beer, purchased Beersmith the other day and now all I want to do is make beer!

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers.
 
G'day All,

Just after some recipe advice in regards to making a Californian steam beer, purchased Beersmith the other day and now all I want to do is make beer!

Any help/advice would be greatly appreciated!

Cheers.

maybe start at the Beersmith website, plenty of recipes there
 
This is something along the lines of the Brewing classic styles version with my tweaks and without chocolate cause i dont like it.

OG: 1054

75% Pale Malt
9% Munich
8% crystal/ caramalt 60L
5% Victory

Wyeast 2112 - fermented at 16 degrees

You really need to use this yeast for it to be a true steam beer or the whitelabs equivalent, the yeast plays a big part.

Edit: you may need some hops in it too... :p
Northern brewer all the way.
23ibu @ 60min
20ibu @ 15min
1g / L flameout addittion
 
Here is the steambeer recipe I use:

Improved Steam Beer
California Common Beer
Type: All Grain Date: 19/04/2011
Batch Size (fermenter): 23.00 l Brewer:
Boil Size: 26.29 l Asst Brewer:
Boil Time: 60 min Equipment: My Equipment
Final Bottling Volume: 23.00 l Brewhouse Efficiency: 65.00
Fermentation: My Aging Profile Taste Rating(out of 50): 35.0
Taste Notes:
Ingredients


Ingredients
Amt Name Type # %/IBU
4.50 kg Pale Malt, Traditional Ale (Joe White) (5.9 EBC) Grain 1 78.3 %
0.55 kg Munich I (Weyermann) (14.0 EBC) Grain 2 9.6 %
0.45 kg Crystal Medium - (Thomas Fawcett) (157.6 EBC) Grain 3 7.8 %
0.23 kg Victory Malt (Briess) (59.1 EBC) Grain 4 4.0 %
0.02 kg Chocolate Malt (Thomas Fawcett) (1000.8 EBC) Grain 5 0.3 %
30.00 g Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 29.5 IBUs
30.00 g Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 5.0 min Hop 7 5.9 IBUs
40.00 g Northern Brewer [8.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 8 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg California Lager (Wyeast Labs #2112) [125.00 ml] Yeast 9 -

Comes out pretty good. Its straight out of Brewing Classic Styles. The only thing that stops me brewing it more often is the yeast, I can't seem to get my yeast library up to scratch....

Good Luck, its a great beer style!
 

Latest posts

Back
Top