Here is one of my recent "experiments." Big Muddy Red. Going for a NE IPA version of an Amber Ale. Pretty pleased with it, but not sold on the hop combo of this one, and I would also like it to have a fuller/creamier body to it. But, overall, I think it is maybe 90% of the way there.
I basically used a 1.060 grain bill of NE IPA.
40% 2 Row
40% Golden Promise
20% Wheat/Flaked Grain Combo
NO Caramel Malts at all
I added 1 cup of D-180 Belgian Syrup with 15 minutes to go in the boil (6.5 gallons of Wort)
Hopped it with
1:1:1 Cascade:Centennial:Amarillo in 2 whirlpool additions
1.5:1.5 Cascade:Amarillo in 2 dry hops.
1056 yeast I think.... or 1272?
I have a second batch carbing now. A bit less D-180 (what I had left) and I only used Centennial/Cascade in the second batch. No Amarillo. Bittered with Warrior in both to that 40 IBU range or so.
Thinking of Maybe going the route of Nugget at 60 and 15 and then Cascade/Centennial/Nugget in whirlpool. Then a single dry hop of Cascade (with maybe a touch of nugget???) I am a big fan of Nugget Nectar.
Horizon would be another hop that might play very well in this beer instead of Nugget.
At any rate, fairly happy with it.
I basically used a 1.060 grain bill of NE IPA.
40% 2 Row
40% Golden Promise
20% Wheat/Flaked Grain Combo
NO Caramel Malts at all
I added 1 cup of D-180 Belgian Syrup with 15 minutes to go in the boil (6.5 gallons of Wort)
Hopped it with
1:1:1 Cascade:Centennial:Amarillo in 2 whirlpool additions
1.5:1.5 Cascade:Amarillo in 2 dry hops.
1056 yeast I think.... or 1272?
I have a second batch carbing now. A bit less D-180 (what I had left) and I only used Centennial/Cascade in the second batch. No Amarillo. Bittered with Warrior in both to that 40 IBU range or so.
Thinking of Maybe going the route of Nugget at 60 and 15 and then Cascade/Centennial/Nugget in whirlpool. Then a single dry hop of Cascade (with maybe a touch of nugget???) I am a big fan of Nugget Nectar.
Horizon would be another hop that might play very well in this beer instead of Nugget.
At any rate, fairly happy with it.