Red IPA Attempt

TampaTony · Feb 20, 2013

Chris7687 said:
Taste great. Very citrusy, from all the late Cascade additions and dry hopping with Centennial. No off flavors that I am aware of that are present. I have served my beer like this at my home brew club events and have had nothing but praise for the taste. The visual is something I am embarassed of, but don't know how to fix it. Trying to trouble shoot here. I have 10 gallons that will be served here for the Tampa Bay Beer Week coming up in three weeks. I am going to transfer them to kegs once dry hopping is done come Sunday, add some geltain, and keep them nice and cold until the event. Hopefully that will fix some of my clarity issue, but not strip out to much of the hop aroma and flavors.

Are you serving this at Hunupu's release party? If so I would like to try some...what club are you with?

tennesseean_87 · Feb 20, 2013

Is that the same as the brown beer pictured above. The last picture looks normal (though cloudy), the other one looks like chocolate milk.

Chris7687 · Feb 20, 2013

TampaTony - I will be pouring at Cold Storage on March 6th with my HMC Special Hoperations. $10 gets you a Florida Ave pour, I believe a glass, and samples of our homebrews. I believe we have 6 total members pouring at this event. I might be attending the release party, which my club will be pouring at, but I will not. Just drinking and bouncing around.

tennesseean - No, the second picture is of a Pale Ale I made that still has haze to it even after being 2 months in the bottle.

eric19312 · Feb 20, 2013

Not a great answer but since it tastes good, and you are kegging already, why not try filtering?

Chris7687 · Feb 20, 2013

Just one more thing that I'm not interested in buying. There has to be a way to resolve this issue without extra equipment. I am brewing as we speak and trying to take everyones advice. Did 1.5 hour long mash (don't have idonie to test with), doing an 1.5 long boil, using whirfloc, using yeast nutrient and olive oil, did a 2L yeast starter, not going to dry hop, and going to add geltain when kegging. Hope one of these things or the combination of all will help resolve my problem. If it does, I will be revisiting this Red IPA recipe very soon. Have a lot of cloudy great tasting Cloudy Brown IPA's for the time being!