- Kentucky Common Beer
Kentucky Common Beer is a once-popular style of
ale from the area in and aroundLouisville, Kentucky , that is rarely brewed commercially today. Cheaper than imported beers, it was popular among the working classIt was usually made with barley and approximately 25 to 30 percent maize, with some artificial coloring, caramel, or roasted malt to give it a dark color. It had an original gravity of 1.040-1.050, an average bitterness of 27
IBU s, and was brewed with 2 percentlactobacillum in the yeast.The
New Albanian Brewing Company inNew Albany, Indiana , features its version, Phoenix Kentucky Komon, as a rotating seasonal selection.References
*"American Handy Book of the Brewing, Malting and Auxiliary Trades," Robert Wahl and Max Henius, 1902
*"The Essentials of Beer Style," Fred Eckhard, 1989
*"Radical Brewing," Randy Mosher, 2004.
*http://www.newalbanian.com/NABCroster.htmlExternal links
* [http://www.lagersclub.com/louhistory.htm Kentucky’s Beer Heritage]
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