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Irish Spring

Irish Spring

Irish Red Ale • Partial Mash • 5.5 gal

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Delicious and balanced brew for a nice Spring day.

June 20, 2014 pm 02:29pm

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Ingredients (Partial Mash5.5 gal)

  • 0.75 lbs Melanoidin Malt

    Melanoidin Malt

    Red Ales

  • 0.75 lbs Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Weyermann CaraRed®; Weyermann

    Red Ale, Red Lager, Scottish Ale, Amber Wheat, Bock Beer, Brown Ale, Alt Beer

  • 0.33 lbs Crystal Malt 60°L

    Crystal Malt 60°L

    Sweet caramel flavor, deep golden to red color. For dark amber and brown ales.

  • 0.5 lbs Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Cara-Pils® Malt; Briess

    Characteristics & Applications: • The endosperm is completely glassy and will appear to be darker than standard Brewers Malt. • Carapils® is a very unique dextrine-style malt that adds body, foam retention, and beer stability without influencing color or flavor. • Use to upgrade all types of beer, including light colored beers. • The non-fermentables in Carapils® are very advantageous in balancing body and flavor of dark colored beers. • May be used with or without other specialty malts. • Low usage of 1-5% will help achieve desired results. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 0.5 lbs Honey Malt

    Honey Malt

    Nutty honey flavor. For brown ales, Belgian wheats, bocks and many other styles.

  • 0.5 lbs Crystal Malt 40°L

    Crystal Malt 40°L

    Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.

  • 3.3 lbs Liquid Light; Muntons

    Liquid Light; Muntons

    Selected English lager malt is used to produce this fine consistent light malt extract.

  • 2 lbs Dry Light; Muntons

    Dry Light; Muntons

    Used as the base for a wide variety of styles of beers, including lager, pale ales, bitters, and export bitters. Contains no colored malts.

  • 0.5 oz Target - 11.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Target

    Used for its robust bittering ability in British ales and lagers. Aroma is quite intense.

  • 1 oz East Kent Goldings - 7.2 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    East Kent Goldings

    Mild, slightly flowery.

  • 1 oz Brambling Cross - 7.3 AA% pellets; boiled 1 min

    Brambling Cross

    Grandparent of Saxon and Viking, they have a unique toasty, buttery, slighly resiny aroma with some woody notes.

  • 1 ea Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss) - (omitted from calculations)

    Whirlfloc Tablets (Irish moss)

    Enhanced Irish Moss in convenient tablet form

  • White Labs WLP004 Irish Stout

    White Labs WLP004 Irish Stout

    This is the yeast from one of the oldest stout producing breweries in the world. It produces a slight hint of diacetyl, balanced by a light frui|iness and slight dry crispness. Great for Irish ales, stouts, porters, browns, reds and a very interesting pal

Notes

Using Muntons Marris Otter extract instead of light. Single temprature mash at 152 degrees. Sparge with 1 gallon of water at 170 degrees. Added DME at 45 minutes. Add LME at 15 minutes. Pitched yeast at 66 degrees. Fermenting in the basement at 65 degrees.. OG 1.054. FG 1.014. ABV 5.2%.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 9 - Scottish and Irish Ale

Subcategory: D - Irish Red Ale

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.053 1.044 - 1.060
Terminal Gravity: 1.014 1.010 - 1.014
Color: 14.4 SRM 9 - 18
Alcohol: 5.1% ABV 4% - 6%
Bitterness: 26.2 IBU 17 - 28

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