AG3 - American red ale

[ceejam]

So! Just nearing the end of the boiled for my 3rd AG stovetop brew.
Similar recipe to last time;

2 kg pale malt
0.25kg Crystal

16g Galena (13.2%) @ 60 mins
20g Galena@15mins
20g Galena @ flameout.

I 'found' Galena when doing a Craft beer kitchen brew in December, so thought I'd try it as a single hop in this.

Planning to pitch a pack of Mangrove Jack's American ale yeast.

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[clibit]

Sounds nice. Simple but should be good. Is it a red ale though?

 

[ceejam]

It's a browny/reddy/Amber.
Do you have s good 10L grain bill for a red ale.

 

[clibit]

Some commercial red ales just use pale and Crystal. But so do lots of pale ales and IPAs. There's no definitive grain bill, but the American IRA 10L recipe in the completed and brewed recipes forum is pretty typical of a red ale grain bill.

 

[ceejam]

AG3 on the left, Youngs AAA on the right.
Maybe it's an amber rather than red?

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[clibit]

Some red ales use carared malt, but the most common and traditional way is to use crystal malts and a small amount of roast barley. If you had added a little RB it would have been more red. But red in a beer sense, not a post box sense. :thumb:

Here's a recipe that uses carared AND roast barley...

http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/...ginning-homebrewers-hoppy-red-ale-recipe.html

 

[cornyandy]

The name of that hop Galena always makes me grin. When I first heard about people putting galena in ale I cringed, it's the mineral form of lead sulphide and toxic in high quantities

 

[ceejam]

Clibit, thanks for the advice, I am going to try a bit of roasted barley (or perhaps carafa special?) in the next one.
I've used carafa special to turn an IPA kit into a black IPA.

 

[clibit]

Not sure if Carafa would work. Might just darken it. There's something about RB that adds a red tinge, when used sparingly, I think.

 

[ceejam]

Okey coke.
I did a bit of 'research' (entered Carared into Google [emoji6]) and it sounds like colour wise it is very close to Crystal?
I might go for a bit of RB next time with a little less Crystal!
Then AG 5 is likely to be a black IPA, once I figure out a 10L recipe. I'll start a new thread for that..........

 

[ceejam]

I decided to dry hop half of this batch - had transferred it to 2 demijohns last week.

I added 12g (or 10 - can't remember!) of Galena to one demijohn on Sunday and bottles both batches tonight.
Smooth bottles are dry hopped, black sheep bottles are non hopped.
Ended up with 7 bottles of each, plus a hybrid!

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[ceejam]

So, trying a cheeky bottle,.

Is this a red ale?

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Clarity isn't great, but sure it will improve with some cool conditioning, I stuck this one in the fridge a couple of hours ago.

I'm quite happy with it, but was hoping for a little more as this is one of the dry hopped ones.