Red Beer

Does anyone know how to brew Red Beer?

Add red food coloring.......

Or use amber grains/dme.

Then pour 4 pounds of blood in it. In the secondary. You want to dry-blood it.

Caramel malts? Red Wheat Malt.... how RED are we talking?

Here's a Red Ale Recipe from the ProMash site.

Grain/Extract/Sugar

% Amount Name Origin Potential SRM
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64.5 7.50 lbs. Pale Malt(2-row) America 1.036 2
21.5 2.50 lbs. Munich Malt(light) America 1.033 10
4.3 0.50 lbs. Crystal 80L 1.033 80
4.3 0.50 lbs. Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt 1.033 2
4.3 0.50 lbs. Wheat Malt America 1.038 2
1.1 0.13 lbs. Roasted Barley America 1.028 450

Potential represented as SG per pound per gallon.


Hops

Amount Name Form Alpha IBU Boil Time
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0.50 oz. Cascade Whole 5.75 10.7 60 min.
0.50 oz. Centennial Whole 10.50 19.5 60 min.
0.50 oz. Cascade Whole 5.75 2.1 10 min.
1.00 oz. Goldings - E.K. Whole 4.75 2.9 5 min.

cant you add carafa II for a red hue?

Honey Malt helps impart some reddish color as well.

I use .5 lbs of crystal 30L and .25 lbs of roasted to end up with a SRM of about 14 in my red

The American Red Ale Kit I got from AHS, was by far the best beer I have brewed so far. I 'm going to have a batch of that going conituously for a while.

I heard that if you add a very small amount of black patent (2 ounces) then it gives the batch a distinctive red hue. Ive not tried this myself yet but it might be something I that I will experiment with.

Chocolate malt will impart red color. Maybe 1/8 to 1/4 pound at the most.

My my, I can't believe the options that are possible.
I think I am going to have a go with the recipe from Ed although the blood was certainly a contender. (just need to find a donor first)

Legrante said:

My my, I can't believe the options that are possible.
I think I am going to have a go with the recipe from Ed although the blood was certainly a contender. (just need to find a donor first)

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You can bre that for halloween. Keeps the vampires happy.

Pumbaa said:

I use .5 lbs of crystal 30L and .25 lbs of roasted to end up with a SRM of about 14 in my red

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dats how dis dog rolls too...

cool, i'll checkout the ratios on promash in the morning > woofwoof