California Common All Grain Recipe
Vložit
- čas přidán 19. 12. 2020
- This video examines all of the data to help you brew an award winning California Common beer recipe. This was the first meanbrews recipe I brewed in 2008, which won a Gold Medal at the Bluebonnet Brew Off in Dallas, TX (the largest single site homebrewing competition in the world)
Purchase this All-Grain beer recipe kit at Bacchus and Barleycorn:
bacchus-and-barleycorn.myshop...
If you have winning recipes you would like to share to include in our dataset, please email us as many details of your recipe as you can including Times and temperatures, pitch rates, water chemistry, etc.. The more data the better the end product for our videos. email us at meanbrews@gmail.com
Download this recipe on Brewfather: recipe.brewfather.app/FXWAhuT...
Buy us a beer!: / meanbrews
Check out our website at www.meanbrews.com, where you can download full recipes
Shop Meanbrews Gear: shop.spreadshirt.com/meanbrew...
Join me in the discussion on future videos at: / competitivebrewing
Want to download the presentation? Click here: meanbrews.com/ref/19c%20-%20C...
Now for the recipe:
recipe.brewfather.app/FXWAhuT... - Jak na to + styl
Great recipe, brewed this a few months ago and entered it in a two comps. with it taking Gold in one and advanced to mini-BOS in the other larger comp. Well worth brewing this recipe!
We had a Cali Common in our home brew advent. Now I have a good recipe to try on my own. Thank you SO much!
YAY! Its finally here! Woohoo!
excellents videos thanks
Schwarzbier would be an interesting one. I think it's a style that homebrewers make very different from commercial examples. If I had to guess, I'd say more roasty and malty than typical tends to win.
Great videos. This is the first recipe of yours that I have made. Had an issue with my wyeast not firing up so had to repitch with 34/70. I must say on first sampling this is one of my best brews! Keep it up mate.
Love to hear this! I'd love to try it.
Just discovered your channel after hearing you mentioned on the brulosophy podcast. Great video, thanks.
Awesome! Thank you!
Looking forward to brewing this! I used to hate Anchor Steam, now it's 1 of my favorite retail beers out there. I can't believe Sapporo drove them into the ground. Double check your recipe here, the amounts on Brewfather link are completely different.
hmmm. let me check
I love pulling up my recipes as I watch the videos, see how well I do...
Well, what's the verdict?
@@MeanBrews That I'm terrible. My recipe came from an experiment where I brewed 10 gallons of american amber ale, and lagered 5 gallons with cali lager yeast. My hops are "wrong", my base malts... are closer than I expected actually. But the beer consistently scores 38+ in competitions, including BOS once, so it's fun to see how it can compare to beers that were intentionally brewed for this style
Excellent video, thank you!
Would you please give us a Bohemian Pilsner sometime, especially interesting a water chemistry and calcium level for good flocculation and clearing as original Pilzen water is low on minerals and clearing/lagering process takes a lot of time. Thank you a lot!
Cheers from Vancouver/Canada.
Can do, But I must say, czech pils is a simple recipe and process. Pilsner malt and saaz, and very soft water.
Black IPA would be interesting and American Pale Ale
I got a pilsner on deck but.... you know this is second in line. I smell a double brew day coming.
I had an Irish Stout 2 years ago go to the mini bos at the blue bonnet but I didn't place. I didn't enter this year. . . I don't know what to brew for blue bonnet this year.
Winning at bluebonnet is very difficult
I recommend brewing beer for bluebonnet. ;) JK, to me... it's one of, if not THE most prestigious wins in homebrewing. I've known people that have brewed for 20+ years in search of a stein there. It's a great competition, and one hell of a feather in your cap to win there. I think @meanbrews has like 5 steins there now.... ridiculous.
Cool video! Love it.
I'm a total noob here, I can't really understand how much hops to add. It is mentioned that hops are added 3 times. Regarding 2nd and 3d portion it was clearly mentioned in an absolute weight measurements but the 1st portion remains totally unclear to me. In both description and video you mentioned IBUs rates for the first portion of hops, why not the gramms or ounces? How much should I add?
The rest of the video is an amazing job 😊😍
so you'll need to use the tinseth equation as all hops have different Alpha Acid (AA) percentages. In my videos I give an IBU value. thats the International Bittering Unit calculated per Tinseth (in my data I use this equation). This equation factors in the AA% of the Hops, Specific gravity of wort, Mass of hops added, Volume of wort in the kettle, and the duration the hops were boiled. Its a complex formula but you can either do it yourself, or get a brewing program like Beermsith that will automatically calculate IBUS by itself Hope this helps.
how about a Dopple bock, many of us are interested in this style. We have heard it is a complex style to brew.
It's on the poll, but not winning right now
Love the videos!...when I input this I get a FG of 1.017. Quite a bit sweeter than the BJCP style recommends. Is this accurate? Would love it if you included your desired approximate FG!
Good point. I would adjust mash temps accordingly to hit desired attenuation or do a beta rest as a part of your mash schedule if predicted fg is too high. I've never had a sweet beer turn out with this recipe.
@@MeanBrews Adjusted mash temps all the way down to 146F with no change to FG. Yeast predicted attenuation is at 70%
Which program are you using?
@@MeanBrews brewfather
Got it down to 1.016 using Wyeast as opposed to WL. Its basing apparent attenuation at 68.9%..mashing at 149F
wheres the pole?
The poll is on my channel page
@@MeanBrews a link would be cool
wins a medal on a beer that is not right style wise. The actual beer that started it all only uses 2 Row, Crystal 40, and Nugget for bittering and Northern Brewer late in the boil for aroma and some flavor. It also uses the San Francisco lager strain and ferments at a warm temp about 68-74 Fahrenheit and does not require lagering.
All the homebrewers are wrong about this beer and have gotten it wrong for years perpetuating wrong information.
I don't believe the goal in crafting a Cali Common is to make an Anchor Steam Beer clone. Just like any beer style there are commercial examples that set the standard for BJCP guidelines but that doesn't mean homebrewers shouldn't be encouraged to experiment and vary from any of the original recipes. It's common practice for breweries to adjust their own recipes as tastes evolve as well as technological and agricultural advancements are made so why would homebrewing be any different?
@@moleman_ The goal is to make it as close as you can as that is the style that you are emulating so by not doing so you are not brewing a common or doing the style justice.