Haven't been on the forum for a while. I am looking to do a red ale tomorroew with my son who has just arrivede up home. Anyone have a good recipe, that I can dial into beersmith. Partial or all grain will do the trick?
Not a Fcuking Irish Red, more a new age Red Ale.
Screwy - seen this quote before - and stillgot no idea of your actual point. Please explain.
Oh I see - got it now.You're kidding right?
Amarillo :lol:
Screwy
Oh I see - got it now.
- say, if I use POR then it must be an Aussie Red!!
Oh I see - got it now.
But how did you go for colour? I've been tring to make a red ale for some time, each of my 3 attempts have come out too dark - thiough tasty all the same. I've tried a few commercial brews and they are more brown than red, but if yours is red rather than brown I can play around with hops to make it Irish, nerw age or whatever - say, if I use POR then it must be an Aussie Red!!
I spent a bit of time playing around with the "Better Red Than Dead" recipe lifted straight from Zymurgy as did Chappo and Manticle. I found you won't get a "red beer" with the emphasis on red - (no scarlet colours here) - it will always be brown with a red hue - like a dirty crimson? Anyway, hold the beer to the light, it will look reddish. The carared, munich 1 and the roast barley adds the reddish bits, so too much roast will darken the colour. I've cut back the roast to almost nil and subbed caramunichII and melanoidon malt with similiar colours, but with more "malt" flavour. The yeast is important - used Wyeast Irish & Whitelabs Edinburgh with similiar results. when I used US-05 it was a poor choice - the beer seemed not to have the same malt complexity. I have a brew down now using Whitelabs German Ale which also is recommended for this style.
So, don't go looking for a "red" colour that you cannot achieve (I've searched for that Holy Grail and found it only by adding food colouring)
And I am with Screwy and don't like the term "Irish Red" but it is all the recipe databases have. I call mine a red ale and in a sise to side comparison with Kilkenney (from the can) my brews shit all over the commercial in flavour.
Good brewing
='Fourstar' date='Jun 2 2010, 09:43 AM' post='638411']
Oh, as for it being like kilkenny? Not even close. Altough, it wasnt meant to be. :icon_cheers:
Got most of that stuff Fourstar so will try your recipe this afternoon. Don't have a high alpha hop like Magnum but will adjust for that. I'll see if Challenger is a sub.
I actually won't drink Kilkenney Red on tap now (unless someone twists my arm or there is nothing else to drink) because it tastes pretty second rate compared to what I have done. I start telling people around me and they reckon I become a beer snob. Me !!!!
I used magnum as its my high alpha hop of choice, challenger would be a good sub or just go all EKG. :icon_cheers:
Fuggles :beerbang:
What I like about your ingredients Boagsy is a kit brewer could add the crystal/roast to a standard can and add Fuggles at the end to produce a similiar style of beer (rather than the unhopped malted extract). It won't be a world beater but should improve a kit beer immeasurably.
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