Hoppy Red Design

[bonecitybrewco]

Working on a Hoppy Red Ale and wondering if anyone can offer thoughts on the grain bill. Not necessarily looking for how you would do it but rather whether you think the grain bill seems excessive or missing in any areas or anything seems obviously out of place. I am fairly confident in the hopping schedule but am open to ideas. Looking for a malty, clean flavored, smooth bitterness with slight hop flavour and huge hop aroma. Simple, straight forward, refreshing red ale.


8 lb American - Pale Ale
0.75 lb American - Caramel / Crystal 60
0.5 lb German - Melanoidin
0.25 lb American - Victory
0.25 lb United Kingdom - Pale Chocolate

~14 SRM
~4.8%
70% efficiency.

Mash @ 155 for 60 min


0.75 oz Centennial First Wort 60 min
2 oz Cascade 5 min
3 oz Cascade Dry Hop 7 days
2 oz Centennial Dry Hop 7 days

~ 26 IBU

Safale US-05

 

[Happywanderer]

For my reds - I use
11lbs Pale malt (Maris Otter Pale)
6oz Roasted Barley (550L)
6oz Carapils
1lb honey at flameout.

I've been wanting to try http://www.northernbrewer.com/weyermann-carared-malt

But I haven't yet.

I don't know how red it will turn out with Chocolate and Crystal 60. I will say that my red was a deep deep ruby.

EDIT: I just entered your malt bill into brewersfriend and the color comes out amber/orange versus red.

EDIT 2: I was just playing around on brewersfriend and it seems that:
10lbs Maris Otter (or other 2-row Pale)
2lbs Carared
3oz or 4oz UK Roasted (550L)

Should get you a good deep red color with a nice malt backbone to balance the hops.