- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- US-05
- Yeast Starter
- no
- Additional Yeast or Yeast Starter
- no
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5
- Original Gravity
- 1.060
- Final Gravity
- 1.013
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- IBU
- 34
- Color
- 14
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 14
- Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 7
- Tasting Notes
- Best beer I ever brewed. My wife thinks it the best beer ever and she loves all beer.
Mojave Red
Efficiency at 80% for a OG of 1.060
hopville . "Mojave Red" American Amber Ale Recipe
82% 8lb 4oz American Two-row
5% 8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (Franco Belges 80L is best)
5% 8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L
5% 8 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L
2% 3 oz Melanoidin Malt
1% 2 oz Carafa II special
0% 1/2 oz Roasted Barley - 550L
Mashed at ~152
60 mins 1.0oz Palisades pellet 8.1
20 mins .5oz Sterling leaf 7.0
10 mins .5oz Willamette leaf 4.5
Rehydrated pack of US-05
Dry hop 7 days .5oz Cascade leaf 7.0
Carbonated to 2.5 volumes
Extract Version here
It's darker than the desert here but goes down very well in it. The Melanoidin and Carafa create an interesting flavor with the Crystal malts and the hop schedule complement them very well. It's balanced just the way I like it. Nothing is overpowering. I can't say it tastes like anything else I've had before. A delicious west coast red.
Took category 10B first place in the 2009 Morebeer forum Competition and third in the 2011 HBT west.