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Hi guys!
I was wondering if any of you had experience brewing American red ales. I have a brew day planned tomorrow and I'll give a go at this. Never used 10-15% of a grist of crystal malt apart from when making milds, so it seems a bit daunting. Original plan is to have a mash of pale malt with around a pound and a bit of a mix of light, medium and dark crystal (2/5, 2/5, 1/5, roughly) and then colour correct with up to 50g of roast barley (or chocolate malt). Aiming at an OG of 1.055 and something in the order of 40-55 IBU. An alternative would be to reduce the amount of crystal malts and introduce half a pound of Munich malt, which would still be ok with the style but give a drier beer.
Any recommendations on hops welcome. I have waiting in the fridge the following: amarillo, cluster, nugget, chinook, cascade, brewer's gold, apollo, liberty, ekg, northdown. These are all bits and bobs so of most of them I don't have more than 50g (I was thinking about some bittering with BG and then a hop burst of amarillo, cascade and cluster, with the odd addition of liberty). I'll be also adding late a big bunch of fresh brewer's gold from the garden.
I was wondering if any of you had experience brewing American red ales. I have a brew day planned tomorrow and I'll give a go at this. Never used 10-15% of a grist of crystal malt apart from when making milds, so it seems a bit daunting. Original plan is to have a mash of pale malt with around a pound and a bit of a mix of light, medium and dark crystal (2/5, 2/5, 1/5, roughly) and then colour correct with up to 50g of roast barley (or chocolate malt). Aiming at an OG of 1.055 and something in the order of 40-55 IBU. An alternative would be to reduce the amount of crystal malts and introduce half a pound of Munich malt, which would still be ok with the style but give a drier beer.
Any recommendations on hops welcome. I have waiting in the fridge the following: amarillo, cluster, nugget, chinook, cascade, brewer's gold, apollo, liberty, ekg, northdown. These are all bits and bobs so of most of them I don't have more than 50g (I was thinking about some bittering with BG and then a hop burst of amarillo, cascade and cluster, with the odd addition of liberty). I'll be also adding late a big bunch of fresh brewer's gold from the garden.