My beer was the last extract beer that I made. It tasted a lot more like an irish red than I was going for. I wanted something more along the lines of a gordon's (oskar blues) or lagunitas imperial red. It is still a very drinkable beer but the dry hopping was lost on it as no floral remains...
I am looking to go all grain for my fifth batch which is coming up in a few weeks. Hoping to have more flexibility formulating recipes and the price break will be nice as well. Has anyone seen a posting for group buys in Houston? I have another friend here that would be interested.
Jaybird, I...
I am using the hoppy red ale recipe from Austin HBS. I added 3 LBS muni he LME.
10 lbs Munich
.5 crystal 20L
1 crystal 90L
.5 pale malt
.5 aromatic malt
.125 black barley
.75 honey malt
1 oz galena(60 min)
1 oz Columbus (30)
1 oz nugget (45)
2 oz cascade dry hop
WLP051
OG 1.079
ABV ~8%...
I am trying to brew an imperial red ale but have been unsuccessful in finding a kit. I was thinking of getting a red ale kit and beefing up the malts and trying to balance this with more hops. My question is will munich malt extract be suitable to add to this kit and would cascade or centennial...