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The next beer from the San Diego Brewers Guild is being brewed at our Carlsbad brewery restaurant and is loosely based on the California Common Beer Style. This beer was a collaboration of all the San Diego Brewers Guild members with the brewing headed up by Adam Carbonell and Green Flash’s, Chuck Silva. All of the breweries in the Guild donated about one pound of hops to make this beer.  Adam and Chuck had to combine the 19 different hop varieties to make one hop addition – called the Menagerie. Hopunion donated Cascade hops for dry hopping, White Labs donated the San Francisco lager yeast, and Brewers Supply Group donated the Golden Promise and Caramunich 2 malts. 

This San Diego “Uncommon” Common will be served at San Diego Brewers Guild associated events, as well as at Karlfest.

 

California Common Beer - Style Guide

California Common Beer is a style that originated on the West Coast during the mid-1800s. Large open fermentors (coolships) were traditionally used to compensate for the absence of refrigeration and to take advantage of the cool ambient temperatures in the San Francisco Bay area. These beers were fermented with a lager yeast that was selected to thrive at the cool end of normal ale fermentation temperatures (55-60ºF).

The California Common Beer  is a lightly fruity beer with caramel and toasty malt flavors and a pronounced hop bitterness that usually comes from the Northern Brewer hop variety (woody, rustic, and minty). This beer finished dry and crisp with a lingering hop bitterness and a firm malt flavor. IBUs range from 30-45 and Alcbv ranges from 4.5-5.5%.

 
 
     
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