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I have been hearing about the resurgence of the Kentucky Common Ale. Since it is now under the Historic Beers on the 2015 BJCP Guidelines I wanted to try my hand at one.

Click Here for the Wikipedia Page about the Kentucky Common.

So here is the my recipe I came up with:

Common Taste Kentucky Common

Starter

Two days before brew day I made my starter. I am using WLP-001 that I harvested off of an older starter. I had a pretty small slug so stepped it up to my pitching cell count.

Brew Day

I woke up at 4:30 AM to start my brew day and started my strike water. My target temp was 156.9 to mash in at 153.0 degrees. As you can see it hit pretty spot on. I was also able to use my new mash paddle. Hooray! I was mashed in at 5:09 AM.

Time to have the brew what is standard for this time of day.

After 60 min I pulled the bag with my pulley and gave the grain a squeeze.

Notice the telescope in the background? I took this shot with my phone while waiting for the mash.

I set the boil for 60 min and added the cluster hops.

15 min left in the boil, had some good music playing. I also added the immersion chiller to the boil.

After the boil I gave it a chill and hit 1.048 for my OG two points higher than my target.

I pitched my yeast and put the carboy in the fermentor at 65 degrees.

Fermentation

Fermentation started of pretty quick, I had activity after 6 hours.



As you can see, it is starting to look pretty good. I kept it there for about 3 days and then slowly bumped it up to 71 to finish.



Glad I had a blow off tube.

Packaging

I took a Final gravity reading after 8 days in the fermenter and it was holding stable at a 1.010.



I then cold crashed it for 24 hours in the mid 30’s, fined with gentian and kegged the beer.

Tasting Notes

The color of this beer is dark with really light biscuit note on the nose. The aroma is really clean for a dark beer.

The taste is light with a creamy mouthfeel but not a heavy beer. Really nice head retention that sticks around for the whole beer.

This is a malty beer, but not toasted or smokey. I would say a little bready. The hops are there but balanced not overly bitter and a clean finish. I would totally do this beer again and would not really change anything about it. It really came out nice.

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