Racked the Irish Red yesterday. The beer came out great so far. I was hoping for a little bit better color but we can adjust that! The OG was 1.062 and the exit gravity is 1.020. This was off from our target gravity of 1.013. The beer seemed to of finished dropping gravity so I went ahead and racked it. The estimated ABV is 5.76% with 25.5IBUs. It tasted great but had some residual yeast aroma to it. I think once it is aged, it promises to be a good beer. This was our first full boil batch in the new brew kettle and mash tun. We are excited to see how it comes out! It should be ready about the first week of July!
07/02/11: I tapped this beer last night! We were surprised how good it turned out! Full bodied, great aroma, mellow finish with hints of caramel. This recipe will be brewed in our next brew session as "Death Row Red" with a higher ABV and the 20L will be substituted with Carared (Weyermann). That should give it the deep red color we are looking for. This was our first full boil batch and we really noticed the difference in quality! I will post this recipe in xml and bsm formats here as soon as we tighten it up and brew the final batch so be sure to check back! Cheers for now!
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