Martin's California Common Recipe Kit

Martin's California Common Recipe Kit

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Why you'll love it

  • A true-to-style California Common, one of the 99 beers Martin Keen brewed during his Homebrew Challenge.
  • Every fermentable, hop, and yeast portioned and matched to the recipe, so there is no math and no guesswork on brew day.
  • Sized for a 5-gallon batch and ready for all-grain or brew-in-a-bag, so it works with whatever homebrew gear you already own.
  • Fresh ingredients, shipped fast, so your brew day starts with the good stuff.
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Make beer at home and skip the guesswork for good. This California Common recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's

Make beer at home and skip the guesswork for good. This California Common recipe kit comes with every pre-measured ingredient you need to brew Martin's California Common, a 5-gallon all-grain batch, from grain to glass.

California Common, better known by Anchor's trademarked name "steam beer," is one of the few beer styles native to the United States. It dates to Gold Rush California, where brewers fermented lager yeast at warm cellar temperatures because ice was scarce, producing a hybrid that drinks like a lager with a touch of ale-like fruit.

The signature is Northern Brewer hops, woody and faintly minty, set against a toasty amber malt base. It pours clear copper with a bitterness more pronounced than the modest strength suggests. Fermented cool with lager yeast, it comes out crisp and clean, a distinctly Californian everyday beer.

What's In The Kit

Your California Common recipe kit includes everything below, portioned and ready to brew. All you add is water.

Fermentables

  • 8 lbs · Pale Malt (2 Row) US
  • 1 lbs · Caramel 40 → we include Crystal 50
  • 1 lbs · Munich Malt
  • 8.0 oz · Cara-Pils/Dextrine → we include Great Chit
  • 2.0 oz · Chocolate Rye

Hops

  • 1 oz · Northern Brewer Pellets (US) (Boil, 45.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Northern Brewer (Boil, 15.0 min)
  • 0.5 oz · Northern Brewer Pellets (US) (Boil, 0.0 min)

Yeast

  • California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112) → we include SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager)

Water treatment salts and any specialty extras are noted with the recipe.

Recipe At A Glance

Batch Size
5.00 gal 		Original Gravity
1.052 SG 		Final Gravity
1.012 SG 		ABV
5.3 % 		Bitterness
37.6 IBUs 		Color
16.3 SRM

A Note On Substitutions

This kit includes Crystal 50 in place of the recipe's Caramel 40; Great Chit in place of the recipe's Cara-Pils/Dextrine. We stock dry yeast only, so SafLager W-34/70 (German Lager) dry yeast stands in for the recipe's California Lager (Wyeast Labs 2112).

  • This kit is built for brew-in-a-bag (BIAB), the simplest way to make all-grain beer at home. The basic brew day looks like this:

    1. Heat your water and steep the milled grain to make wort.
    2. Boil the wort, adding the hops on the schedule in the recipe.
    3. Cool the wort down quickly, then transfer it to your fermenter.
    4. Pitch the yeast and let it ferment for about two weeks.
    5. Bottle or keg, wait for carbonation, then enjoy.

    That yields roughly 53 bottles of fresh California Common. It works great with our digital electric homebrew systems, which hold your temperatures for you, though any kettle and burner will do.

  • This is a recipe kit, so it includes the ingredients only. To brew it at home you will also need:

    • A brew kettle or an electric all-in-one brewing system
    • A grain bag for brew-in-a-bag (or a mash tun for a traditional mash)
    • A fermenter with an airlock
    • A thermometer and a way to chill the wort
    • Sanitizer, and bottles or a keg for packaging