ArizonaGoalie
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- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- US-05
- Yeast Starter
- Nope
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5
- Original Gravity
- 1.076
- Final Gravity
- 1.017
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- IBU
- 42
- Color
- 16 SRM
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 15
- Secondary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 7
- Additional Fermentation
- 21
- Tasting Notes
- Mindblowing
Brewed this back in January to be ready for St. Paddy's Day. Kegged it this week and had my first 10oz glass last night. FABULOUS!
It is modeled after a beer no longer in production, Off The Rails, from Karl Strauss. Off The Rails was the imperial version of their mainstay Red Trolley. They actually brewed it again this year as their holiday beer and called it "This One Goes to Eleven", the only difference being that they used some cabernet grapes/brix to finish it off. Which inspired me to do something a little different and use cherries...see below.
5 gallon batch
11 lb 2-row
1 lb Crystal 80L
1 lb Crystal 60L
1 lb Carapils
Hops:
.75 Nugget @ 60
.33 Willamette @ 30
Shooting for 42 IBU and 15 SRM.
Mash at 152
Batch sparge at 170
Yeast used was US-05
A real proper Irish would use S-04 or some English strain, but I prefer this beer to ferment super clean.
Primary for 14-15 days, then racked over 2lbs of frozen cherries that had been soaked in 100% organic black cherry juice for a few hours. Left it on the cherries for 1 week, then racked again to let it settle out for 21 days. Then kegged. (I also used gelatin just before kegging to give it nice clarity).
If you're bottling, you may want to go straight to bottle after cherries so you've got some yeasties left to carb.
I'm convinced this would taste amazing without the cherries, and at a lower ABV, but hey, make life decadent when you can.
Finished product was 7.7%. It's a sipper. Nothing subtle about the cherries, they hit the nose immediately and the taste buds in every sip. And the US-05 made this fairly crisp, so the ABV sneaks up on you dangerously. You could easily drink 3 pints of this before getting up and realizing, uh oh...
Cheers!
It is modeled after a beer no longer in production, Off The Rails, from Karl Strauss. Off The Rails was the imperial version of their mainstay Red Trolley. They actually brewed it again this year as their holiday beer and called it "This One Goes to Eleven", the only difference being that they used some cabernet grapes/brix to finish it off. Which inspired me to do something a little different and use cherries...see below.
5 gallon batch
11 lb 2-row
1 lb Crystal 80L
1 lb Crystal 60L
1 lb Carapils
Hops:
.75 Nugget @ 60
.33 Willamette @ 30
Shooting for 42 IBU and 15 SRM.
Mash at 152
Batch sparge at 170
Yeast used was US-05
A real proper Irish would use S-04 or some English strain, but I prefer this beer to ferment super clean.
Primary for 14-15 days, then racked over 2lbs of frozen cherries that had been soaked in 100% organic black cherry juice for a few hours. Left it on the cherries for 1 week, then racked again to let it settle out for 21 days. Then kegged. (I also used gelatin just before kegging to give it nice clarity).
If you're bottling, you may want to go straight to bottle after cherries so you've got some yeasties left to carb.
I'm convinced this would taste amazing without the cherries, and at a lower ABV, but hey, make life decadent when you can.
Finished product was 7.7%. It's a sipper. Nothing subtle about the cherries, they hit the nose immediately and the taste buds in every sip. And the US-05 made this fairly crisp, so the ABV sneaks up on you dangerously. You could easily drink 3 pints of this before getting up and realizing, uh oh...
Cheers!
