Red Hopped Ale

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Recipe: BIRA - Brian's India Red Ale
Brewer: Brian Ferullo
Asst Brewer: Tom Howell
Style: American IPA
TYPE: All Grain
Taste: great hop aroma and the flavors meld well. Waiting ovderall scores from SNERHC 2011 competition

Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 6.57 gal
Post Boil Volume: 5.98 gal
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.50 gal
Bottling Volume: 5.50 gal
Estimated OG: 1.064 SG
Estimated Color: 15.3 SRM
Estimated IBU: 67.5 IBUs
Brewhouse Efficiency: 80.00 %
Est Mash Efficiency: 83.6 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt Name Type # %/IBU
7 lbs Pale Ale Malt (2 row) - Briess (3.4 SRM) Grain 1
5 lbs Munich II (Weyermann) (9.0 SRM) Grain 2
11.0 oz Special B (148.0 SRM) Grain 3
0.60 oz Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 60.0 min Hop 4 21.0 IBUs
0.15 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 50.0 min Hop 5 2.4 IBUs
0.10 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 45.0 min Hop 6 1.5 IBUs
0.15 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 40.0 min Hop 7 2.2 IBUs
0.20 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 35.0 min Hop 8 2.8 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [9.60 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 9 11.3 IBUs
0.40 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 30.0 min Hop 10 5.2 IBUs
0.50 oz Amarillo Gold [9.60 %] - Boil 20.0 min Hop 11 8.9 IBUs
1.00 oz Amarillo Gold [9.60 %] - Boil 10.0 min Hop 12 10.7 IBUs
0.10 oz Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 4.0 min Hop 13 0.6 IBUs
0.10 oz Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 14 0.3 IBUs
0.10 oz Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 15 0.3 IBUs
0.10 oz Chinook [11.40 %] - Boil 2.0 min Hop 16 0.3 IBUs
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min Hop 17 0.0 IBUs
1.0 pkg American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056) [125.00 Yeast 18 -
2.00 oz Amarillo Gold [9.60 %] - Dry Hop 5.0 Day Hop 19 0.0 IBUs

Notes:
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Grain 12.69 lbs
Mash Ratio 1.2 qts/lb of grain
Absorption rate in mash 0.2 gallons/lb grain
Boil Off Rate 1.1 gallons/hour
Boil Time 60 minutes
Desired volume to primary 5.5 gallons


Water Calculations
Gallons Quarts
Mash Water 3.81 15.23
Water Absorbed 2.54 10.15
Wort After Absorbtion 1.27 5.1
Sparge Water 5.33 21.3
Boil Volume 6.60 26.4

mash temp ended at 152 degrees
mash pH = 5.2

1st brix = 22
2md brix = 11
3rd brix = 3

Wow, 11 oz of special B. Seems like a bit much.
That's also a lot of small hop additions. How did it turn out?

turned out awesome IMO. I was looking to clone-ish Green Flash's Hop Head Red. Theirs has way more raisney character, prolly more special B. This amount seemed to work.

The hop schedule is a little crazy. I had my buddy come help me brew and when I had to take over watching my 5 month old he took over hopping and went to town. IT WORKED!!!!!!

I really liked this brew and ended up brewing a second batch almost as soon as I tasted the 1st.