Daywalker Red Ale

Grain Bill:
7 lbs English 2-row
1 lb Cara-aroma
12 oz Melanoiden
8 oz Cara-pils
8 oz. Carared

Additional Fermentables:
1 lb. Honey @ 20 minutes (I used Tupelo)

Hops:
1 oz Willamette (60 min)
.5 oz Saaz (30 min)
.5 oz Saaz (5 min)

Irish moss @ 10 minutes

Yeast:
WLP-004


The color on this one is awesome, I will be sure to post a pic after I crack a bottle in a week or two.

I'm bottling this up today, It'll be my first bottling with my new beer gun so I'm very excited.

Picture to come!

Tease.


Seriously though, that sounds like a pretty cool recipe, although you may end up with less aroma/flavor that expected with only one late addition. Then again, it might be amazing. *shrug*

^^^

Yeah you make a valid point. From the taste tests it seems like it has a very nice malt character which is what I was aiming for being this a red and all. There may be room for a little more in the aroma department. I will trying it tomorrow so I will let u know.

Had a nice tasting of this today. I must say I was very happy with how this turned out. Very easy drinker with a solid nose and a nice malty characteristic.

In regards to the comments on the amount of late hops used. I don't know that I would choose to use more hops at the end next time but I may use a hop with a more citrusy note. While the aroma was present it was slightly bland. I suppose that works well for a nice session red, but if I wanted give it a little something extra that is what i would probably consider.

Here it is finally...Had a family gathering on Sunday for the Pats game and was left with only two bottles of this afterwards so I guess people must have enjoyed it.