Irish Red Help

[CoalCracker]

Hi all,

One of our semi local micro breweries recently gave me a grain bill for one of their Irish Reds. I need help converting this to a mini mash recipe.

8% Crisp C77
8% Castle Caramunich
3% Roasted Barley
6% Crisp Caramalt
With the remainder being Crisp Pale

25 IBU's with GRM Magnum hops and finish with Fuggles @.5oz per 5 gallons. Wyeast 1968.

I am pretty new to this so constructing recipes is Latin at this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated. This is for a 5 gallon batch.

 

[Yooper]

What size boil are you going to do, and how many pounds of grain do you want in the mash?

 

[CoalCracker]

2.5 gallon boil. 4 lbs of grain.

 

[Yooper]

Ok, then. Let's see. How about:

4 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM) Dry Extract 49.69 %

2 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 24.84 %
10 oz C77
10 oz Caramunich Malt
8.0 oz Caramalt
3.0 oz Roasted Barley

1.00 Magnum 60 minutes
0.50 oz Fuggles 5 min

Depending on the AA% of the magnum, that should work.

 

[CoalCracker]

Looks great thanks! I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

[CoalCracker]

Ok, I'm looking for the Crisp C77 on BMW and can't find it. Is there another name for it?

 

[Freezeblade]

Crystal 77, might be kinda hard to find there, go for some basic Crystal 80 instead.

 

[KingBrianI]

Go with simpson's dark: http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/product/0101481/simpsons-dark-crystal

it's a 75 SRM British Crystal and exactly what you want.