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TartanSpecial

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Finally got round to my planned 100% RedX brewday...

6kg BestMaltz RedX
60 min mash at 66 C
12grms Target at 60min
15 grms Challenger at 60min
20grms Northdown at 10min
20 grms EKG at 0 min.
Est IBUs 30.
Batch size 22.7ltrs.
OG 1.058 (target was 1.060)
Yeast WLP028 harvested from last brew (Armadillo Pale Ale)
Hopefully I will finally get a brew that the wife will agree is properly red and not reddy brown. Still had brown notes while boiling.

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TartanSpecial said:
Finally got round to my planned 100% RedX brewday...

6kg BestMaltz RedX
60 min mash at 66 C
12grms Target at 60min
15 grms Challenger at 60min
20grms Northdown at 10min
20 grms EKG at 0 min.
Est IBUs 30.
Batch size 22.7ltrs.
OG 1.058 (target was 1.060)
Yeast WLP028 harvested from last brew (Armadillo Pale Ale)
Hopefully I will finally get a brew that the wife will agree is properly red and not reddy brown. Still had brown notes while boiling.
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Interesting looking grain bill there tartan. How's the armadillo shaping up?
 
Garethhuwwilliams said:
How's the armadillo shaping up?
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Hi Gareth,
It's carbonating at the moment. I've got one PET test bottle that feels pretty solid after only 3 days, so might give it another couple of days and then put it in the fridge and taste it maybe.....end this week then report back. Had a sneak taste when bottling and I think it might turn out good....though need a proper carbonated taste to try to describe the hop flavours.
 
It finished fermenting on day 5 so took a sample and cold crashed it to separate the yeast. The colour isn't quite 100% red, but its not bad. Will wait a few more days before bottling. FG was 1.020 so I think there are quite a lot of unfermentables in the redx malt. Start gravity was 1.058, I said target 1.060 but I see Beersmith have recently added RedX to their grain bill and using that the target gravity would have been 1.056...I'd just overwritten a pale malt underlying data with a smaller fermentablity [edit: I meant to say yield potential] adjustment than Beersmith.

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