StarRaptor - Double American Red Ale

[StarRaptor]

This is what I brewed up for the club brewday

StarRaptor
Double American Red Ale
Type: Partial Mash
Date: 8/27/2011
Batch Size (fermenter): 5.00 gal
Brewer: Scott Bennett
Boil Size: 6.93 gal
Boil Time: 60 min
Equipment: Brew Pot (12.5 gal) and Igloo Cooler (10 Gal)
Brewhouse Efficiency: 72.00 %

Beer Profile
Measured Original Gravity: 1.092 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.019
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 9.1 %
Bitterness: 94.5 IBUs
Est Color: 17.0 SRM

Ingredients

Malt
4 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM)
4 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM)
2 lbs 8.0 oz Rye Malt (4.7 SRM)
1 lbs Rice Dry Extract (7.0 SRM)
1 lbs Carared (20.0 SRM)
13.6 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 40L (40.0 SRM)
8.6 oz Victory Malt (25.0 SRM)
8.0 oz Munich Malt (9.0 SRM)
2.6 oz Chocolate Malt (350.0 SRM)

Hops
0.50 oz Magnum [14.40 %] - First Wort 75.0 min
1.00 oz Simcoe [12.20 %] - Boil 20.0 min
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 20.0 min
1.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Boil 0.0 min
1.25 oz Centennial [8.50 %] - Boil 0.0 min

Dry Hops
2.00 oz Citra [12.00 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop
2.00 oz Centennial [8.50 %] - Dry Hop 7.0 Days Hop

Yeast
1.00 Starter San Diego Super Yeast (White Labs # WLP090)

Other
1.00 Items Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) -
1.00 tsp Yeast Nutrient (Boil 15.0 mins)
1.00 Tbs 5.2 pH Stabilizer (Mash)

Mash Profile

Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out
Total Grain Weight: 14 lbs 8.8 oz
Sparge Water: 6.44 gal
Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F

Mash Steps
Mash In Add 7.53 qt of water at 175.0 F 152.0 F 75 min
Sparge Step: Fly sparge with 6.44 gal water at 168.0 F

[bwarbiany]

Interesting grain bill... Original recipe, or did your pick it up elsewhere?

[StarRaptor]

Interesting grain bill... Original recipe, or did your pick it up elsewhere?

It started off as Red Velvet from Eagle Rock which had recently been the featured AHA recipe of the week http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/p ... red-velvet

From there I started to tweak it here and there.

[bwarbiany]

Again, definitely an interesting recipe. There's so much going on with all those specialty grains that I'm not sure what the taste profile would be coming out the other end...

Hopefully I'll get a chance to taste this at some point