Irish Red Ale Raging Red Irish Red Ale

[jmp138]

I was happy to brew this as my first beer in about 4 years. It fermented out in about 3 days and has been in the primary for 2 weeks. I'm going to let it go for another week before kegging it up. Hopefully it will be a smooth sessionable beer.

Can't wait to rack an ESB right onto the cake!

 

[brent756]

This was my first solo attempt at brewing. Brew day pretty much went according to plan. This has been kegged for close to two weeks and it's starting to clear up a bit, and tasting great!

 

[Veronis]

Made this for St. Patrick's Day with a couple minor modifications - Added a half ounce of Cascade at 15 and reduced the 30 min cascade addition by close to half (Cascade's AA's have been sneaking up toward 7.5% lately, so I adjusted for IBU's), and I added 4oz of torrified wheat. Tastes delicious, and man is it red.

 

[boomst1ck3d]

Great recipe! I scaled this down to 3.5 gal and brewed this yesterday. Wort sample was crazy red! I had some Edinburgh Ale yeast (WLP028) and decided to use that so I pitched a 1L starter of it into this batch. I will try to report back to let everyone know how it went with the different yeast!

 

[Disintegr8or]

Well, was able to have a few bottles of this over the weekend just in time for St Patricks.

What a great beer, recipe is wonderful!

It still needs a couple more weeks in the bottle before I post a picture of my pour, but it is a definite winner.

 

[Mysticmead]

Well, was able to have a few bottles of this over the weekend just in time for St Patricks.

What a great beer, recipe is wonderful!

It still needs a couple more weeks in the bottle before I post a picture of my pour, but it is a definite winner.

glad ya liked it! can't wait for the pics

 

[madcore]

I entered this in the 2011 Peach State Brew Off taking 1st place. Thhis has a DEEEEEP red color and is big on the malt flavor. Enjoy

Batch Size: 5.00 gal
Boil Size: 5.72 gal
Estimated OG: 1.059 SG
Estimated Color: 15.9 SRM
Estimated IBU: 29.0 IBU
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amount Item
8.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1.00 lb Caraaroma (130.0 SRM)
0.50 lb Carafoam (2.0 SRM)
0.50 lb Melanoiden Malt (20.0 SRM)
1.00 oz Crystal [3.50 %] (60 min) (First Wort Hop)
1.00 oz Cascade [5.50 %] (30 min)
1.00 lb Honey (1.0 SRM) (add at flame out)
1 Pkgs California Ale (White Labs #WLP001)

what kind of honey is everyone using??

 

[Mysticmead]

what kind of honey is everyone using??

it doesn't really matter as it's used to boost ABV. I used the cheap Walmart honey

 

[btack]

Made it twice both times I used wild flower honey and it came out great

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[KingDeNNiZ]

So this will be my first brew from all grain. (Only 3rd batch of beer ever made)

How much corn sugar..? 3/4tsp per 12 oz bottle ?? Mine is about 2.5gal batch. Should I put the corn sugar in warm water to break down. Put in clean carboy. Then siphon fermented beer and mix with corn sugar so it's all evenly mixed and then bottle ?


DeNNiZ

 

[Mysticmead]

So this will be my first brew from all grain. (Only 3rd batch of beer ever made)

How much corn sugar..? 3/4tsp per 12 oz bottle ?? Mine is about 2.5gal batch. Should I put the corn sugar in warm water to break down. Put in clean carboy. Then siphon fermented beer and mix with corn sugar so it's all evenly mixed and then bottle ?


DeNNiZ

always prime by weight not measurements like tsp or cups.. that's asking for trouble.

for 2.4 volumes of CO2 on a 2.5 gallon batch that is stored at 65F. you'd need 2 ounces of corn sugar. add that to about a cup of water and boil it for 15 minutes to kill any nasty bugs. chill it and then add that to a bottling bucket and siphon the beer into it. give it a GENTLE stir and bottle

 

[madcore]

so i brewed this past weekend as my first eBIAB...welp over shot my mash was 90min at 164 shot for 154...and now i see i only added 1/2lb of Caraaroma not 1 lb.... I got caught up splitting the other two grains and split the Caraaroma by mistake...have more grains OTW to retry this problem only one keg open...going to have to buy some bottles and bottle for the first time i guess...and no i didnt take a OG :smack:

 

[Mysticmead]

so i brewed this past weekend as my first eBIAB...welp over shot my mash was 90min at 164 shot for 154...and now i see i only added 1/2lb of Caraaroma not 1 lb.... I got caught up splitting the other two grains and split the Caraaroma by mistake...have more grains OTW to retry this problem only one keg open...going to have to buy some bottles and bottle for the first time i guess...and no i didnt take a OG :smack:

on the bright side... you still made beer

 

[madcore]

this is true and with those two changes we will see what i have made:/ but like I said i plan to redo this beer CORRECTLY lol

 

[user 171019]

I have this as my next batch to do. I was surprised, i thought honey added a little more gravity.

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[LandoLincoln]

This beer was my first ever 15 gallon batch, and it did come out pretty tasty. It won Best of Show at my brewing club's March beer competition.

I did make some mods to it. Instead of using melanoiden malt, I used carared. Instead of Cascade hops, I used Mosaic. I used Irish Ale yeast and I also dry-hopped it with some El Dorado hops to give it a nice stone fruit-ish aroma. I also got to finally use the three pounds of really good clover honey that I had laying around.

I will brew this again next year, but I think I'll experiment more with different hop combinations.

 

[Brewsncrabs]

I had to sub c-120, so mine is not as red. Also the honey is very pronounced. Hope it disappears.


Beer and crabs were meant for each other!

 

[madcore]

i ordered my grains from northern brewers because my brewstore wanted to sub all the Weyermanns and they said it would really affect the taste and look

 

[user 171019]

I ordered all mine from Northern Brewer today also...

 

[madcore]

Ok so even with missing 1/2 a pound of grains and mashing at 165 my fg needed at about 1.015.... Although I think I should of left longer in the primary


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[Veronis]

I had to sub c-120, so mine is not as red. Also the honey is very pronounced. Hope it disappears.


Beer and crabs were meant for each other!

In my beer I put the honey straight into the fermenter with the cooled wort. The honey was very pronounced at sample readings, but by the time bottle conditioning was done, it was barely an undertone and most people couldn't taste it.

I used 1 lb of orange blossom honey (again, straight in with cooled wort, did not boil it). It was factory sealed so I wasn't worried about contamination.

 

[Brewsncrabs]

I boiled a lb of generic honey. It's starting to dissipate and getting better.


Beer and crabs were meant for each other!

 

[user 171019]

1 lb. Local wildflower honey added at the end of the boil and 2 days in the primary.

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[timcadieux]

I brewed this on Sunday and while I was preparing my hops no realized I had no honey. So, it'll be 1 point lower ABV this time around.

 

[Mysticmead]

I brewed this on Sunday and while I was preparing my hops no realized I had no honey. So, it'll be 1 point lower ABV this time around.

I've done that more than once... it'll still be a great beer.
or you can add the honey to the primary

 

[timcadieux]

I'm happy to leave it just as it is as an experiment, I don't need a high ABV so long as the flavor is there.

 

[user 171019]

Does this have any hopiness in it? Seems to be a little light on the hops.

 

[Mysticmead]

Does this have any hopiness in it? Seems to be a little light on the hops.

as per the style, hop aroma and flavor should be neutral. that said, I made it a little hoppier than the style guidelines.

 

[user 171019]

as per the style, hop aroma and flavor should be neutral. that said, I made it a little hoppier than the style guidelines.

Me also. My gravity came in at .002 below target, and my IBU upped to 30 tinseth

 

[madcore]

Im re brewing this probably this weekend due to the high mash temp and it was missing a half a pound of grains.I think i might use some Mosaic or Eldarado hops though.