Red Ale Recipe

[Stapsin]

I am attempting to make an Red Ale. Here is the outline of the recipe I plan to use. Just wondering if anyone has any thoughts/tips/recipes of their own? Particularly wondering how people have managed to get a nice red colour. I was intending to use the white labs irish red ale yeast but I have tons of Saf 04 on hand (as I fermented some and split it into 200ml vials) so was planning on just using that instead. Cheers!

Recipe Overview

Volume At Pitching: 22.00 l
Volume Of Finished Beer: 21.00 l
Expected Pre-Boil Gravity: 1.049 SG
Expected OG: 1.052 SG
Expected FG: 1.014 SG
Expected ABV: 5.1 %
Expected IBU: 20.6
Expected Color: 12.8 SRM
Mash Efficiency: 75.0 %
Boil Duration: 60.0 mins

Fermentables
UK Pale Ale Malt 4.750 kg (93.1 %) In Mash/Steeped
UK Medium Crystal 300 g (5.9 %) In Mash/Steeped
UK Roasted Barley 50 g (1.0 %) In Mash/Steeped

Hops
UK Golding (5.5 % alpha) 15 g Loose Whole Hops - 60 Min From End
UK Golding (5.5 % alpha) 15 g Loose Whole Hops - 40 Min From End
UK Golding (5.5 % alpha) 10 g Loose Whole Hops - 20 Min From End
UK Golding (5.5 % alpha) 10 g Loose Whole Hops - 5 Min From End

Other Ingredients
Whirlfloc Tablet 1.00 g - In Boil

Yeasts
DCL S-04-SafAle

Single Step Infusion (66C/151F) for 60mins

 

[dennisking]

Personally I would have stuck with the Whitelabs.

 

[Stapsin]

I would use white labs all the time if cost was no object to be fair. I plan on getting some white labs strains that I am more likely to use often and split them.