First all grain, judge my Irish Red Recipe

Wanted this to be a bit of a drier imperial irish red.. How's it look?

Ingredients
Amount Item Type % or IBU
11.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) Bel (3.0 SRM) Grain 80.00 %
1.00 lb Cara-Pils/Dextrine (2.0 SRM) Grain 7.27 %
0.50 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM) Grain 3.64 %
0.25 lb Roasted Barley (300.0 SRM) Grain 1.82 %
1.00 lb Corn Sugar (Dextrose) (0.0 SRM) Sugar 7.27 %

0.75 oz Glacier [5.60 %] (60 min) Hops 16.1 IBU
0.50 oz Glacier [5.60 %] (30 min) Hops 5.5 IBU
0.25 oz Glacier [5.60 %] (5 min) Hops 0.9 IBU

1.10 items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 min) Misc

1 Pkgs Nottingham (Danstar #-) Yeast-Ale

Beer Profile
Est Original Gravity: 1.068 SG Measured Original Gravity: 1.054 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.016 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.010 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 6.77
% Actual Alcohol by Vol: 5.74 %
Bitterness: 22.5 IBU Calories: 239 cal/pint
Est Color: 13.1 SRM

seems ok. i'm far from an expert, but the numbers add up.

one trick I sometimes employ is adding roasted barley only to the sparge, not the mash. It helps you get color, but not flavor. my last irish red was almost brown cuz the roast barley got outta hand. I think i had more than .25 tho.

malkore said:

one trick I sometimes employ is adding roasted barley only to the sparge, not the mash. It helps you get color, but not flavor. my last irish red was almost brown cuz the roast barley got outta hand. I think i had more than .25 tho.

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I love to make Irish reds, and this idea is intresting to me, are you looking at say .25 to .5 lbs? Standard crush or no crush at all?