St Peters Ruby "Red"

[dx4100]

Just took a sample of my Ruby Red.... Gravity came out at 1.016 so will give it a bit longer to see if it improves before bottling.

What I noticed though was it was more golden than red.... Is that right? It tastes lovely so nothing wrong with that.

 

[StrangeBrew]

Just took a sample of my Ruby Red.... Gravity came out at 1.016 so will give it a bit longer to see if it improves before bottling.

What I noticed though was it was more golden than red.... Is that right? It tastes lovely so nothing wrong with that.

You don't really see the redness till you hold a glass up to a bright light then this kits distinctly red!

 

[andyd]

Mine closed out at 1015 so you may not have too far to go. Turned out very pleasant too!

 

[carl_saint]

I finished one at 1.014 so that sounds about right. Drunk the keg in about a week with friends it was that good! Leave it as long as you can before drinking to get the full benefit. It's gorgeous when left for 4 weeks +

 

[dx4100]

You don't really see the redness till you hold a glass up to a bright light then this kits distinctly red!

When I held it up to the light in the trail jar its was more golden...

I picked myself up some St Peters Ruby Red from Tesco tonight and its very much "red'...

Will it go red while its conditioning in the bottle... or have the actually put "St Peters Golden Ale" in there instead of the Ruby Red...

Pretty pissed off right now

If they have done that then thats a 36 pint kit... and i brewed it to 40 pints.... ggggrrrrr

 

[artiums_enteri]

Was this a kit? I'm guessing it is an Irish red ale?

To get that deep red color that you find in commercial examples my wife uses crystal 70L added to the grain bill. If its a kit you are sort of stuck with what is premixed I think though.

 

[shearclass]

i have done this kit and it was awful. I used windsor yeast, rather than the yeast supplied.

I think it may have had some minor infection, as I have heard very good reviews of this. Also, the beer itself is delicious. The brew never cleared, and the yeast never settled out very well. it's been bottled sever months, and I am just ploughing through the last couple of bottles at the moment.

Was this a kit? I'm guessing it is an Irish red ale?

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Artiums - I have just replied to you in another thread about kits. The St Peters brewery is, if memory serves, based in the south west of England, so it's not necessarily an Irish brew. The real stuff is very nice.

 

[DethApostle]

Sorry to resurect this but it was just the info i was looking for!
My final kit before AG is this Ruby Red Ale and it appears to have finished at 1.016 after 10 days now. It's good to see that this isn't an uncommon FG!
Now i can bottle it and look forwards to a nice brew at Christmas!

Cheers
DA

 

[jonnymorris]

i have done this kit and it was awful.

and yet...

I am just ploughing through the last couple of bottles...

A maxim for every home brewer... I made it so I'm going to drink it.

 

[hoofy]

A maxim for every home brewer... I made it so I'm going to drink it.

I brew for me and my dad, but he's a proper fussy old git, so he gets to drink all my best brews and I'm left with what's left. :x

 

[PD]

St Peters Red Ruby Ale, is in the opinion of many, one of the finest kit beers available. But. it takes a few weeks in the bottle.
And YES the ale is RED after a few weeks. so leave it alone if you can. you wont be disappointed.

 

[oldstout]

St Peters Red Ruby Ale, is in the opinion of many, one of the finest kit beers available. But. it takes a few weeks in the bottle.
And YES the ale is RED after a few weeks. so leave it alone if you can. you wont be disappointed.

+1 :thumb:

It's as red as something quite red that's blushing with a red hat and coat on.....and red wellies. :lol:

Great beer this - if kit brewers on here have not tried out a two can kit yet, get one on and see what you are missing :thumb:

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[dx4100]

Funny to see this come back :)

Mine never turned red and it lacked taste.... I compared it directly with a bottle of the real thing and it was nowhere near....

I gave up on kits and have gone all grain.... Waiting for my first effort to condition....

 

[ChrisRedWills]

made with an extra 500 g of spray malt & primed with 1.5 kg of raspberries lasted about 3 weeks after conditioning one word fantastic
end of. :

 

[Ian...]

This kit was my first attempt (after a 30 year break) so I have nothing else to compare it to. I kegged it and only waited a week before trying a pint. It surpassed all my expectations absolutely superb, though not what I would call really red at that stage. I managed to make the keg last a further 4 weeks and it did go red, it cleared beautifully and the head was perfect, and just got better and better to drink. I did give it 14 days to ferment though, and it came in at around 4.3%abv. I put another one on 7 days ago, and added 1kg of Dem sugar to boost the abv. I'm looking for around 5%. The og was 1049 and I took a reading today and its 1018 with another week to go. I have some drinkable lager to go through to keep me off the RRA for Christmas. I have found RRA better [for me] than anything I have bought in a pub.

 

[dx4100]

I must have been doing something really wrong with kits as I read stuff like this all the time but having done about six kits I haven't had one come out anywhere near what I would call a commercial grade drink....

Everyone has had tell tale homebrew tastes. smells or lacked much flavour and body.

Really hoping the effort I have put into all grain brewing pays off...