John Lennon BIRA (Birthday India Red Ale)

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stevedasleeve

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Location
Betelgeuse
Recipe Type
All Grain
Yeast
Nottingham
Yeast Starter
nope
Batch Size (Gallons)
5.75
Original Gravity
1.062
Final Gravity
1.014
Boiling Time (Minutes)
70
IBU
62
Color
16.8
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
14 @ 67 f
Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
7 @ 67 f
Tasting Notes
Really wonderful red ale - hoppy, bitter but not too bitter, complex
8.5 lbs 2 Row
6.5 lbs Light Munich
12 oz medium (60) crystal
8 oz dark (80) crystal
4 oz light (40) crystal
2 oz Chocolate Wheat malt

44 g Sorachi Ace @ 60 mins (use any clean bittering hop for 44 iBUs)
56 g Cascade @ 15
28 g Cascade @ 5
56 g Goldings in kettle after flame out while cooling wort

56 g Goldings dry hop 7 days

Mashed at 155 f for 120 mins
Fermented @ 67 f

This is quite a departure form my normal IPAs and pale ales. A really nice beer, English character, hoppy but not too much so, a very drinkable red ale 6.3% ABV. The recipe is based on the IRA recipe in Radical Brewing. All the crystal was British. After secondary I cooled the beer to 35 f for 2 days then kegged it.

I get 60-65% efficiency.
 

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