If anyone remembers the second Sandgroper's Christmas case I submitted a parti-gyle entry to the ire of a few of the participants, one of those beers was a Red India Pale Ale.
This year I decided to revisit that theme and tweak things a bit from the previous version which had a tad too much Cara Aroma and the black malt was perceptible. This time I used Baird's dark and medium crystals and a touch of cara red, the final result is not quite red enough to me so maybe next time try more of the dark crystal and forget the Carared it doesn't seem to throw much red in a dark beer. The DME was to make up for the ***** efficiency I got by running my "semi-flood sparge" too fast.
Captured Rabbit Red Ale
A ProMash Brewing Session - Recipe Details Report
Recipe Specifics
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Batch Size (L): 50.00 Wort Size (L): 50.00
Total Grain (kg): 14.85
Anticipated OG: 1.063 Plato: 15.48
Anticipated EBC: 37.7
Anticipated IBU: 65.4
Brewhouse Efficiency: 65 %
Wort Boil Time: 90 Minutes
Grain/Extract/Sugar
% Amount Name Origin Potential EBC
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3.4 0.50 kg. Generic DME - Light Generic 1.046 16
3.0 0.45 kg. Jaggery Pale Generic 1.046 20
46.5 6.90 kg. TF Golden Promise Ale (floor malt)UK 1.037 6
36.9 5.48 kg. Weyermann Munich I Germany 1.038 15
3.4 0.51 kg. Weyermann Carared Germany 1.036 48
3.4 0.50 kg. Bairds Medium Crystal Great Britian 1.034 145
0.9 0.13 kg. Black Patent Malt Great Britain 1.027 1034
2.6 0.38 kg. Bairds Dark Crystal Great Britain 1.033 296
Hops
Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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98.33 g. Cascade Pellet 6.80 41.3 60 min.
40.00 g. Centennial Pellet 7.20 9.1 30 min.
40.00 g. Cascade Pellet 6.30 7.9 30 min.
98.33 g. Goldings - E.K. Pellet 4.20 3.9 off boil
49.00 g. Cascade Pellet 6.30 3.2 off boil
Yeast
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Captured White Rabbit
Dry Hopping
I split the batch and fermented half with American ale yeast but always intended the case swap beer to be bottle conditioned with the White Rabbit otherwise I would have had to have worked out a new name. The WR batch seemed to be lacking in the essential aroma category for an IPA so I decided to dry hop after listening to a few BN podcasts. The information gained from those podcasts was duly chucked out the window and I just ransacked my freezer for whatever I had. I recall throwing various amounts of the following hops in after racking it off the yeast cake on the Wednesday before the swap.
EK Goldings
Centennial
Cascade
Motueka
Galaxy (only 25g added on Friday I promise)
You might be able to discern them better by looking at the 2 inches of hop sludge that was in the bottom of the fermenter after bottling was finished.

Thank God I put a scrubby on the end of the racking cane or I am sure I would have given Goats Pea-Souper some stiff competition