Irish Red Ale Quaffable Irish Red (All Grain) Scrapper's

[Apendecto]

Also, my dad recently made a smaller batch of this using the American yeast 2 and 33% of the base as Munich. It's no joke one of the best beers I've had. Again, thanks!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Also, my dad recently made a smaller batch of this using the American yeast 2 and 33% of the base as Munich. It's no joke one of the best beers I've had. Again, thanks!

You're welcome.


My homebrew club has done stuff like this for competition. We all make the same beer then judge who's was best. You get wildly different results. Lots of fun to do.

 

[Grumpybumpy]

One of the best beers I've made! So smooth and delicious after the diacetyl calmed down. Thanks for the recipe! It may become my house brew

 

[Grumpybumpy]

Side note: I couldn't find special roast, so I doubled the biscuit

 

[ElevenBrewCo]

So i just bought a pound of carapils and a pound of special roast

My ******* told them to put it in the same bag. Im still going to brew so how bad will that pound of special roast affect it.

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[Schlenkerla]

So i just bought a pound of carapils and a pound of special roast

My ******* told them to put it in the same bag. Im still going to brew so how bad will that pound of special roast affect it.

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I'd pitch it and try again. The taste will be completely wrong

 

[Ibrewaletx]

Brewing a 5 gallon batch of this right now. Went with the lower hopped version and used the 10L crystal and carapils 50%/50% substitution. I will update in 5-6 weeks after I try the first bottle.

 

[J8D]

I am trying to find a nice red to put on my new Stout faucet. Would anyone who has brewed this recipe recommend it served on such? Thanks!!!

 

[Apendecto]

I am trying to find a nice red to put on my new Stout faucet. Would anyone who has brewed this recipe recommend it served on such? Thanks!!!

Anyway you serve it, this recipe is great. I've made made 50 gallons or so and we are about to mash in another 5 right now.

 

[Ibrewaletx]

Brewing a 5 gallon batch of this right now. Went with the lower hopped version and used the 10L crystal and carapils 50%/50% substitution. I will update in 5-6 weeks after I try the first bottle.

So, 6 days in the bottle (prob only 1 1.5 volume of CO2 so far) and I cracked one open tonight! Great Brew!!! Wonderful beer, my best beer brewed since I've re-started after moving to Portland!
Thanks Scrapper, I will be brewing more of this, it will go fast!

 

[Schlenkerla]

Anybody drinking or making this today?

 

[Ibrewaletx]

Making another batch on Wednesday, a friend of ours drank up my first batch - her favorite beer ever & she demands more!

 

[kaiser423]

Getting the ingredients today. Maybe brewing Friday or early next week.

Wife asked for an Irish Red, this looks to be a good one!

 

[cadwallion]

I'm going for my first all-grain brew session tomorrow, and I'm using this recipe. Going with the 21.1IBU hop schedule and a 2oz roasted barley addition to the grain bill to give it a little more redness without adjusting the flavor profile too much.

Will post in 3 weeks when it comes out of ferm.

 

[MMachi]

I'm going for my first all-grain brew session tomorrow, and I'm using this recipe. Going with the 21.1IBU hop schedule and a 2oz roasted barley addition to the grain bill to give it a little more redness without adjusting the flavor profile too much.

Will post in 3 weeks when it comes out of ferm.

This was also my first All Grain brew last year and I too added a few oz of roasted barley. The end result was absolutely delicious, but it missed the style mark of an Irish red. The flavor was great, although not a red, and the color turned into a dark amber. Good luck!

 

[cadwallion]

First batch finishes minimum bottle conditioning tomorrow; noticed it came out considerably more brown copper than the copper-red I was going for, but it tasted great (albeit flat). Will post more tomorrow after first tasting while carbed, but I'm brewing another batch tomorrow after tasting to adjust accordingly. Next batch I'm giving more time to age as well, as its part of 3 recipes for 4th of July celebration.

 

[Redmasterflex]

For those of you who used Safale-04, how did this beer turn out?

 

[masonsjax]

I've made this recipe (and some variations) using S04. It's a very good match IMO.

 

[Redmasterflex]

Good to hear, im brewing this as we speak and will pitch S04. Thanks for the quick reply.

 

[D-MOTITAN]

I've made this recipe (and some variations) using S04. It's a very good match IMO.[/QUTOTE]

+1 This recipe is very close to my Irish Red. I love what the 0-4 does for it.

 

[wi_brewer]

Love this one.

Brewed it 10/26 as my first all-grain batch. Used US-05. Was a little low on my water volumes and mash temp, but it is still delicious on tap right now.

Already picked up ingredients to brew this again over Christmas. I foresee a dedicated tap for this one.

Thanks OP!

 

[Staestc]

Does not look like anybody has made this and posted about it in a while. I'm planning on making this my first all grain recipe but not for a few weeks when I free up space in my fermentation chiller.

I have the extract version in the fermenter since Saturday and it is happily bubbling away. I will be posting a pre-buy list of ingredients like I did with the extract version for y'all to review to make sure I'm not screwing up equivalent ingredients again and would appreciate all feed back before I buy it all!

 

[JohnSand]

Hmmm. Maybe next year for St Patrick's Day.

 

[Staestc]

I've been internet shopping for ingredients and have come up with the following. I am still very new to this, so I would appreciate a sanity check from one of you experts before I order anything. It's really just the grains I need a look at, but I included the hops and yeast just for completeness.

Each of the ingredients below is in this format:
As Written in the Recipe
Candidate Selection from the MoreBeer Web Site
Link to Candidate selection

Pale Malt(2-row) America
Great Western Domestic 2-Row Malt
http://morebeer.com/products/great-western-domestic-2row-malt.html?variant=GR300FM

Caramel Pils Malt Belgium (I can't find it on MoreBeer, so using 50/50 Carapils & Crystal 10L)
Briess Carapils Malt
http://morebeer.com/products/briess-carapils-malt.html?variant=GR450CM
Briess Crystal 10L Malt
http://morebeer.com/products/briess-crystal-10l-malt.html?variant=GR510CM

Special Roast Malt America
Briess Special Roast Malt
http://morebeer.com/products/briess-special-roast-malt.html?variant=GR425CM

Chocolate Malt Great Britain
Bairds Chocolate Malt
http://morebeer.com/products/bairds-chocolate-malt.html?variant=GR600CM

Goldings - E.K. Pellet
British Kent Goldings Pellet Hops
http://morebeer.com/products/british-kent-goldings-pellet-hops.html

Willamette Pellet
Willamette Pellet Hops
http://morebeer.com/products/willamette-pellet-hops.html

Wyeast 1272 American Ale II
Yeast(Liquid) - Wyeast (American II) - 1272
http://morebeer.com/products/yeast-liquid-wyeast-american-ii-1272.html

Much appreciated in advance!

 

[Schlenkerla]

I've been internet shopping for ingredients and have come up with the following. I am still very new to this, so I would appreciate a sanity check from one of you experts before I order anything. It's really just the grains I need a look at, but I included the hops and yeast just for completeness.


Much appreciated in advance!

Looks good, pull the trigger.

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[Staestc]

Cool! Thanks very much. And love the video montage!

 

[Staestc]

I have everything ordered and hope to get it brewed in the near future!

One question. Since I will be batch sparging, and have no idea what kind of efficiency I will get, should I up the base grain any to make sure I am at or slightly above the target OG?

 

[Schlenkerla]

I have everything ordered and hope to get it brewed in the near future!

One question. Since I will be batch sparging, and have no idea what kind of efficiency I will get, should I up the base grain any to make sure I am at or slightly above the target OG?

Yes - I would shoot for 75% efficiency.

Mash per the instructions. Then do a starch converson test too to see if the starch converted to sugar. Buy some iodine at your local pharmacy. Its probably less than $2.00.

To do this test you spoon out some mash (tablespoon sized) solid and liquid. Put it on a white plate. Put one drop of iodine on your extracted sample. If it turns from brownish-red to a black color. Mash longer. The conversion is not complete. If it doesn't change color you can commense your sparge. Its that simple.

Discard the test sample into the trash.

If you find amylase enzyme at your homebrew shop you can add a teaspoon the to the mash after you mash in. Basically during the first round of stirring. Its not necessary. Its cheap insurance to get higher mash efficiency.

 

[Staestc]

Thanks very much.


Travis'n'Texas

 

[Gavin C]

Can't wait to try this one. Got two in the pipeline first. Edworts Haus Ale and Lil Sparky's Nut Brown.