Broad Cove Irish Red
Earlier this week, I picked up a mixed pack of beer from Harpoon. One of the beers in it was the Craic, an Irish Red style IPA. I really liked this beer and thought I would brew something similar since I had most of the ingredients on hand.
The Craic is definitely not a traditional Irish Red and I was looking to brew something a little less hoppy, since I've already got an IPA on tap (My Bissell Brothers Clone, which I will be following up on shortly). I wanted to make a more traditional red, so I set to work in BeerSmith and gave it a shot.
This one was definitely easier then my last brew, with less ingredients.
I chose East Kent Goldings, since I had a couple ounces on hand, but limited my hop additions to a First Wort Hop, a Whirlpool, and eventually a dry hop.
I mashed in at 150 for 75 minutes.
Weirdly enough, my preboil gravity was WAY higher then it should have been at 10 Brix (1.040 SG) even after I topped up the water preboil.
I added the FWH charge of the EKGs
Then boiled for 60 minutes.
I then chilled to 170 and added the EKGs for the whirlpool.
Before I transferred to my Fermonster, I took another reading with my refractometer. The gravity reading had hardly changed at all and was now 11 Brix (1.044 SG). This was close to what BeerSmith predicted (1.041 SG), so I'm not going to worry about it, but the two readings were weird.
If you compare the BeerXML (here) or the BeerSmith2 file (here) with my description of the brew, you may notice some differences. Sometimes inspiration strikes and I change things up at the last minute. Anyways, I should be able to post the tasting of this relatively soon, since I'm kegging now and shouldn't need to wait a month or so before I can try it :)
The Craic is definitely not a traditional Irish Red and I was looking to brew something a little less hoppy, since I've already got an IPA on tap (My Bissell Brothers Clone, which I will be following up on shortly). I wanted to make a more traditional red, so I set to work in BeerSmith and gave it a shot.
This one was definitely easier then my last brew, with less ingredients.
I chose East Kent Goldings, since I had a couple ounces on hand, but limited my hop additions to a First Wort Hop, a Whirlpool, and eventually a dry hop.
I mashed in at 150 for 75 minutes.
Weirdly enough, my preboil gravity was WAY higher then it should have been at 10 Brix (1.040 SG) even after I topped up the water preboil.
I added the FWH charge of the EKGs
Then boiled for 60 minutes.
I then chilled to 170 and added the EKGs for the whirlpool.
Before I transferred to my Fermonster, I took another reading with my refractometer. The gravity reading had hardly changed at all and was now 11 Brix (1.044 SG). This was close to what BeerSmith predicted (1.041 SG), so I'm not going to worry about it, but the two readings were weird.
If you compare the BeerXML (here) or the BeerSmith2 file (here) with my description of the brew, you may notice some differences. Sometimes inspiration strikes and I change things up at the last minute. Anyways, I should be able to post the tasting of this relatively soon, since I'm kegging now and shouldn't need to wait a month or so before I can try it :)
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