Been thinking about a big red american style ale for the spring, balanced malt with fruity rather than face puckering hops so I have came up with this.
Any thoughts, suggestions
1.7kg - Coopers Real Ale kit
1kg - Amber DME
250g - CaraGold (Malty, fruity and toffee)
250g - CaraRed (colour)
Hops
20min steep
30g- Nelson Sauvin
20g - Cascade
Dry hop
30g- Nelson Sauvin
30g - Cascade
Yeast
WYeast Activator 1272 - American Ale II
Ferment 12 14 days 22c transfer to other fv for week then crash cool and keg.
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Sounds pretty good. I agree that well-hopped red ale is a sub-style wide-open for reinterpretation... New Belgium's Red Hoptober was delicious and I imagine your recipe coming out a bit like that.
You might consider a tad of roasted barley for the classic Irish Ale source of redness, and replacing one of the Cascade additions with something else (if you can get 'em: Eldorado, Amarillo, Simcoe, Willamette, Centennial, etc.) Cascade certainly has "that American hop thing" but sports a mostly one-dimensional grapefruit profile. If you already have hard, chalky. limestone well-water, that's perfect. If your water is very soft, adding some Calcium carbonate to your soak will improve the color and subtle mineral essence.
Good luck!
You might consider a tad of roasted barley for the classic Irish Ale source of redness, and replacing one of the Cascade additions with something else (if you can get 'em: Eldorado, Amarillo, Simcoe, Willamette, Centennial, etc.) Cascade certainly has "that American hop thing" but sports a mostly one-dimensional grapefruit profile. If you already have hard, chalky. limestone well-water, that's perfect. If your water is very soft, adding some Calcium carbonate to your soak will improve the color and subtle mineral essence.
Good luck!
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Thanks for the input its much appreciated.
Got some Willamette left over from my pumpkin ale(see below) I made so will replace the cascade steep with matching Willamette and add some to the dry hop as well.
I already have the grains and unfortunately due to location, postage costs makes single item purchases costly (up to 5x the item cost) so I will have to stick to the Carared.
Also due to location I have great water so a tsp of Calcium carbonate to be added,
Ichabod Ale
http://hopville.com/recipe/1498208
the spice additions reads 0g but it should be 1 tsp. Will try the first bottle next week can't wait to see how it turned out.
Got some Willamette left over from my pumpkin ale(see below) I made so will replace the cascade steep with matching Willamette and add some to the dry hop as well.
I already have the grains and unfortunately due to location, postage costs makes single item purchases costly (up to 5x the item cost) so I will have to stick to the Carared.
Also due to location I have great water so a tsp of Calcium carbonate to be added,
Ichabod Ale
http://hopville.com/recipe/1498208
the spice additions reads 0g but it should be 1 tsp. Will try the first bottle next week can't wait to see how it turned out.
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Sounds really good. Good luck!