St Peter's Ruby Red Ale Kit - Colour

[ClownPrince]

Hi Everyone,

I recently brewed a batch of the St Peter's Ruby Red Ale kit.
It's reaching the end of it's conditioning cycle.
My only deviation from the kit was to use S-O4 yeast instead of the supplied yeast.
When i bottled it up it tasted okay if a little bland.
I haven't tasted a bottle yet (probably will do at weekend).
The colour of the beer isn't what i expected though.
It's probably more akin to a brown ale than a Ruby.
Could this be because of the yeast, or maybe the warm weather (I don't have a fridge so my been conditions at whatever the temperature is in the shady part of my kitchen)? Should i be particularly worried?
I've seen other posts about this kit on the forum and it always seems to look very red.

 

[Rich Moyes]

Hi,
I’m fairly new to brewing but done the Ruby red twice now.

Both mine have come out similar to yours, but leave them in the bottle for a good month (or more) and it will clear and turn more of a red colour.

Trust me it’s a great tasting beer

 

[ITMA]

I had a strange experience with this kit. It certainly wasn't very red at all, and had a very bland taste; with an aftertaste a bit like water.

In fact it was the same colour as the previous IPA kit I did from them, I was wondering if maybe a batch got mis-labelled or mis-boxed.

The only thing I can think that caused this was I remember I didn't rinse out one of the tins thoroughly; I clean forgot to do so, so there will have been some extract left behind.

It's certainly not an age problem - I've had it on keg for months now (looking forward to reaching the end of it). It did improve a little towards the end.

 

[terrym]

There's a big review of this kit here.
https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/st-peters-ruby-red-ale-review.17791/
I brewed it sometime ago and wasn't impressed, but nothing that Muntons produced ever did.

 

[Arcs]

St Peter's kits can be a little touch and go to be honest. The stout is known for its rep, but the honey porter is rather meh to say the least. Hope it turns out well

 

[ClownPrince]

Thought I'd provide an update on this.
Colour hasn't really changed; it looks sort of red if you hold it up to the light.
Is a pretty nice beer to drink actually, not much too it though.