goplayoutside
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I am hoping to get responses from some people experienced with recipe development here.
So I brewed this beer thinking Irish Red. I did a 3 gal batch using an almost full boil with a late extract addition (steeped specialty grains at 150 F for 30 min), and it came out real pale and less malty than I wanted but otherwise great. Here is the recipe...
0.60 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM)
0.40 lb Home-Toasted 2-row (3.0 SRM)
60 min 1.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM)
60 min 0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (60 min)
15 min 2.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM)
2 min 0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (2 min)
My first thoughts were to up the crystal malt to 3/4 lb of 60L, and switch out the home-toasted 2-row for 1/4 lb of victory. I was also going to toss in 1/4 lb malto-dextrine and potentially add some more fuggles in there for flavor (I like fuggles ). I don't really care if it still fits the Irish Red description or what, I will call it real ale if necessary.
My question: do you think this would this be over-kill on the malty-ness? Any other suggestions for making the changes I am looking for?
So I brewed this beer thinking Irish Red. I did a 3 gal batch using an almost full boil with a late extract addition (steeped specialty grains at 150 F for 30 min), and it came out real pale and less malty than I wanted but otherwise great. Here is the recipe...
0.60 lb Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM)
0.40 lb Home-Toasted 2-row (3.0 SRM)
60 min 1.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM)
60 min 0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (60 min)
15 min 2.00 lb Amber Dry Extract (12.5 SRM)
2 min 0.50 oz Fuggles [4.50 %] (2 min)
My first thoughts were to up the crystal malt to 3/4 lb of 60L, and switch out the home-toasted 2-row for 1/4 lb of victory. I was also going to toss in 1/4 lb malto-dextrine and potentially add some more fuggles in there for flavor (I like fuggles ). I don't really care if it still fits the Irish Red description or what, I will call it real ale if necessary.
My question: do you think this would this be over-kill on the malty-ness? Any other suggestions for making the changes I am looking for?