Product Details
Smooth, malty, and easy to enjoy, Irish Red Ale brings copper-red color and toasty flavor to your homebrew lineup. This 5-gallon extract recipe combines Gold malt syrup and specialty grains for gentle sweetness, biscuit notes, and a lightly roasted finish, with Willamette and US Goldings hops providing balance.
Tasting Notes
- Aroma: Toasted malt, biscuit, and light caramel.
- Appearance: Deep copper-red with an off-white head.
- Flavor: Toasty malt and gentle sweetness with balanced bitterness and a light roasted finish.
- Mouthfeel: Smooth and medium-bodied with moderate carbonation.
Brewing Notes
- Style: Irish Red Ale (BJCP 2021: 15A)
- Brewing Method: Extract with specialty grains
- Batch Size: 5 gallons
- Boil Time: 60 minutes
- Fermentation Temp Range: 60–70°F
- Approximate ABV: 4.4%
- Original Gravity: 1.044
- Bitterness / IBU: 29
- Beer Color / SRM: Deep copper-red
- Time to Package: About 4 weeks from brew day, once fermentation and conditioning are complete
- Time to Enjoy: About 6 weeks from brew day, including bottle conditioning
Brewing Overview: Steep the specialty grains, dissolve the Gold malt syrup, and boil for 60 minutes with two hop additions before cooling, fermenting, and conditioning.
Also available as a 5-gallon all-grain kit or a 1-gallon extract kit.
Additional Information
- SKU
- 1010
- Original Gravity
1.044
- Total Time to Make
- 6 weeks
- Regional Style
- British
- Alcohol Content
~4.4% ABV
- Yield
- 5 Gallons
- Beer Style
- Amber Ale,Irish and Scottish Ales
- Fermentation Type
- Ale
- Beer Recipe Kit Instructions
- Click here for recipe kit instructions