Cara-Red

[jonewer]

Has anyone any experience with cara-red before?

I have gorn and bought a kilo of the stuff and was wondering if anyone has some words of advice?

 

[evanvine]

Never heard of it before, but having "Googled" it, it would appear to be a form of Crystal malt.
I would hazzard a guess at using it as 10% of the grain bill.

 

[Wez]

Not used it but read that it will give body, head retention and obviously a nice red colour. 20% max in batch. Hope thats helpful :thumb:

 

[leondz]

Just made up a brew with some in, smells nice, can't tell you much beyond that though. Colour was more of a brick red than a ruby red though I attribute that to the other malts in the mix.

 

[jonewer]

Thanks all. Will use this in place of regular crystal and see wots wot.

 

[Bribie]

Carared is very popular with Australian home brewers. Not just for Irish red styles but to give a nice 'golden' glow to beers made on Pilsener malts that might turn out a bit too blonde otherwise. Also it can add nicely to malt aroma. If you take a bag of Carared and a bag of ordinary 'cooking' crystal and sniff them, the crystal often smells like something that you would feed to a guinea pig, but the Carared is glorious. I've used 300g of it in a Timothy Taylor Landlord style beer to good effect.

 

[evanvine]

I'm definitely going to have a go with Cara Red.

 

[jonewer]

I added a small amount to my most recent brew. When I next brew a pale one, I'll pump up the carared.