Keyes88

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Recipe Feed Back - Irish Red Ale

Looking for feed back on tweaking this clone recipe. Any Feedback would be welcomed. I was doing some reading on different types of well reviewed Irish Reds from BA and wanted to make a Great Lakes Conway's Irish Ale Clone. Fun part about this is I wont be able to compare my clone till next month when the beer is released but I need to make this now as I have a family event that I am making this for. Again, any information or tweaking would be great! Hopefully keeping this simple will work out well.


Conway Irish Ale

Style: Irish Red Ale
OG: 1.066
Type: All Grain
FG: 1.018
ABV: 6.29 %
Calories: 217
IBU's: 25.16
Efficiency: 75 % (not sure about this, idk where the program got this number from)
Boil Size: 5.83 Gal
Color:***16.6 SRM**
Batch Size: 5.00 Gal
Boil Time: 60 minutes
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Grains
10.00 lbs Briess 2-Row Brewers Malt
2.00 lbs Crisp Crystal Dark 77L (might need to sub this, any ideas?)
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Hops
0.50 ozs Northern Brewer @60 mins
0.50 ozs Hallertauer @ 30min
1.00 ozs Fuggles @ 10min

Yeasts
Wyeast Labs 1084
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Additions
Whirlfloc Tablet @15 mins

happypanties

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I love Conway's! Just saw an add from my local grocery store that its now available. Going to pick up as much as I can tomorrow. Let me know how your clone turns out. I want to try brewing it too.

Ender

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I'd love to get a recipe for it too. I know it doesnt say it on the website, but I swear I taste special roast in it. Anyone else?

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DustBow

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thread revival....

definitely special roast , it's got that biscuity flavor.
I tried a clone last year that was good but not quite toasty enough.
Gonna try again tomorrow - half pound special roast this time

BTW, their house ale yeast is WY-1028

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Jwash1705

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When you say special roast do you mean special B or roasted barley?

DustBow

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the grain is called "special roast"
made by Briess I believe, SRM about 50

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MichaelsBrewing

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+1 on the special roast!

Cheers

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Jwash1705

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I am also working on a conways clone. So far I have...
4 lb 2 row
7 lb Maris otter
.75 crystal 70; 77 if they have it
.5 special B
.33 biscuit malt

Should I be substituting special B or biscuit malt for special roast? I know I am getting my color mostly from special B

Ender

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I kinda think of special roast as super biscuit personally. Id sub it for that.

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DustBow

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Special B is totally different, you want to stick w/ "biscuity" malts.
Great Lakes is kind of "tricky" with their ingredient listings on their site now - I think they list some of them but not all.
For Conway, they used to say:
"American Two-row and Special Roast, English Pale and Crystal, and Belgian Biscuit."

I've been using MO as a base, along with Victory, Special Roast and Crystal-80.

I'll let you know in 5-6 weeks how the latest try went....

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Brewers make wort, yeast make beer.

"Brewing beer is neither complicated nor expensive. It's the responsibility of the brewer to make it as complicated and expensive as their wives will allow." - not sure who, but obviously an experienced HBer