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19B California Common

California Uncommon

Brewed 2025-07-17 Batch · 18 L Thomas Heade
4.5% ABV
1.055OG
1.021FG
53IBU
18 LBatch
61.8%App. atten.
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Grain bill

Gladfield American Ale Malt 3.3 kg 0.5%
Gladfield Munich Malt 400 kg 66.3%
Gladfield Medium Crystal Malt 200 kg 33.2%

Hop schedule

Hop 60 min15 minWPDH#1
Magnum 12g8g··
Centennial ··20g20g
Idaho 7 ···20g

Yeast

Mangrove Jack's M54 Californian Lager Yeast1 packets

Process parameters

Mash
72.7 °C
Strike
27.5 L
Pre-boil
23 L
Boil
69 min
Post-boil
17 L

Fermentation schedule

Primary Fermentation 22 °C · 10 days
Cold Crash 4 days
Carbonation (Bottle/Keg Conditioning) 3 days

California Uncommon

Recipe notes

Brewed as a simple test of my new Brewzilla. Good job I did because the PID blew well past my mash temps. For the majority of the mash temps were somewhere around 75C. I couldn’t find Northern Brewer hops when I was putting in my grain order, so I just used Magnum in the boil and whirlpooled some Centennial. Oh and 20g each of Centennial and Idaho 7 in the keg to see what would happen.