RecipeDB - No So Common

[Cortez The Killer]

Not So Common

Ale - California Common
All Grain

1 Votes

Brewer's Notes

IBU Case Swap - Was looking to make a Cal Common but ended with a really nice American brown. Used Wyeast 2112 Cal Lager - but any clean US yeast will be fine.

Finished at 1.012 - colour a fair bit darker than shown here. Mash 66.5-67*C. 0 minute additions are in hot pack cube.

Malt & Fermentables

%	KG	Fermentable
	3.6 kg	Weyermann Vienna
	0.5 kg	JWM Wheat Malt
	0.1 kg	Weyermann Melanoidin
	0.1 kg	TF Chocolate Malt

Hops

Time	Grams	Variety	Form	AA
	15 g	Chinook (Pellet, 13.0AA%, 60mins)
	15 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 25mins)
	15 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 5mins)
	15 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 0mins)
	5 g	Northern Brewer (Pellet, 8.5AA%, 60mins)

Yeast

1000 ml

Wyeast Labs 2112 - California Lager

Misc

	5 tsp	Gypsum
	0.5 tablet	Whirfloc

21L Batch Size

Brew Details

• Original Gravity 1.05 (calc)
• Final Gravity 1.016 (calc)
• Bitterness 42.8 IBU
• Efficiency 77%
• Alcohol 4.4%
• Colour 27 EBC
• Batch Size 21L

Fermentation

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary 14 days
• Conditioning 1 days

 

[chappo1970]

Great recipe Cortez! Gunna brew this one this coming weekend, now that I have sampled it of course .
Let ya know how I get on.

Edit: Grains ordered!

 

[chappo1970]

Cortez,
Grains are in Da house. Hops are in the fridge. Gunna put this baby together over Easter as I'm on a bit of a lagering juggernaut ATM.

Any tweaks you would consider in hind sight with this one?

 

[Cortez The Killer]

Might have made it a little lighter in colour

Cheers

 

[chappo1970]

Lighten up the choc?

 

[Cortez The Killer]

Possibly - but it might end up different to what you sampled in the case swap

But run with what you've ordered - you'll end up with a nice beer

Cheers