Annegrethe's California Common

Source: Jim Hoffman
Recipe added: 03/10/02
Email: HOFFMANIA88@CS.COM

I wanted to brew something my wife would like. She is no great fan of the Belgians I usually brew, and this was the lightest I could bring myself to make. It is mild and very lager-like. It really does tast a lot like Anchor Steam. It is a very popular brew around my house.

Specifics

Recipe type: Extract
Batch Size: 6 Gallons
Starting Gravity:
Finishing Gravity:
Time in Boil: 1 hour
Primary Fermentation: 8 days
Secondary Fermentation: 7 days

Ingredients:

1/3 cup Marris Otter Malt
1 Cup Dextrine Malt
1/2 cup Crystal
6.6 pounds golden light ME
1 cup corn sugar
1 tsp gypsum
1/8 oz Yakina Magnum hops (11% alpha) - boil
1 oz Northern Brewer 5%? added after 20 min
1/2 tsp gound (dry) ginger
1 oz Cascade (5%) added with 5 min to go.
1 tsp Irish Moss added with 5 min to go.
Yeast - White Labs WLP810 (San Francisco Lager yeast) in 500 ml starter.

Procedure:

Added crushed grains to cold h2o & heated to near boil. Added extract and other stuff as outlined in recipe. Fermented in glass carboys at 60%. Primed with 1 cup malt extract.

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