California Common 42 Point Cali Common Multi Winner

[okbecker]

Recipe Type

All Grain

Yeast

Wyeast 2112

Yeast Starter

1.5 liter

Batch Size (Gallons)

5.5

Original Gravity

1.056

Final Gravity

1.012

Boiling Time (Minutes)

90

IBU

40.4

Color

11.8 SRM

Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

11 @ 58F

Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)

3 @ 65F

Additional Fermentation

28 @ 34F

Tasting Notes

A bit bigger Cali, dry finish, NB hops shining, enough malt to back it up.

This Cali Common has won several gold and silver medals over the years. Needs about 4 weeks lagering to smooth out the edges.

Water (these water treatments were recommended by Gordon Strong, works great)
RO water treated with 1/4 TSP 10% phosphoric per 5 gallons
.5 TSP caci2 and .5 TSP caso4 in mash

Grain
9 lbs 8.4 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 1 72.7 %
1 lbs 8.4 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 2 11.6 %
1 lbs 2.4 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 20L (20.0 SRM) Grain 3 8.8 %
10.5 oz Victory Malt (25.0 SRM) Grain 4 5.0 %
4.0 oz Fawcett Pale Chocolate Malt (220.0 SRM) Grain 5 1.9 %

Hops
1.04 oz Northern Brewer [6.50 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 6 20.5 IBUs
1.74 oz Northern Brewer [6.50 %] - Boil 15.0 min Hop 7 17.0 IBUs
0.87 oz Northern Brewer [6.50 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 8 1.4 IBUs
1.74 oz Northern Brewer [6.50 %] - Boil 1.0 min Hop 9 1.5 IBUs

Mash Schedule
152F for 60 minutes
168F for 15 mnutes

No Sparge - add 5 gallons of water to Tun and added grain to reach 152F, added ~4.125 gallons of water to tun to raise to mash out temps, drained into boil kettle, acquired 7.5 gallons of wort pre boil. No Sparge eff is lower I calculate my eff to be 67%.

 

[FlaglerBC]

What do you use for yeast? What is the fermentation schedule?

 

[okbecker]

I used Wyeast 2112 and the fermentation schedule was 11 days @ 58F, 3 days @ 68F, reduce temp 2 degrees per day until 58F then cold crashed at 40F for 3 additional days, racked to keg and lagered @ 34F for 28 days..