Fire Crotch Red Ale

The red ale is in the fermenter down in the garage. I'm going to try primary down there just to see if it works. If it does that's one less thing taking up space in my closet. I figure with the temperature in the garage around 68 degrees, the conditions should be ideal. The SG on this one was 1.044. It will probably end up around 1.012-1.010 which will give it an ABV of 4.5-5% I think this is going to be my most bitter ale to date. I used Galena and Amarillo as bittering hops and then two ounces of Cascade at flameout to give it a nice fruity floral aroma.

When I came up with this recipe, I wanted to get a good size grain bill so that I could start trying to figure out the all grain versions of some recipes.

1 # pale 2 row

.5 # caramunich 60

.25 # aromatic malt

.25 # 120 L crystal malt

.125 # chocolate malt.

steep in grain bag at 155 for 45 minutes

6 # pale LME

1 oz galena for 60 min

1 oz amarillo for 30 min/ whirlfloc addition

2 oz cascade at flameout

I pitched WLP 001 a little hot, I need a better thermometer, I think it was around 80 degrees or so, but it will probably just kick start fermentation.

With a grain bill like this, I feel like it's an easy enough conversion to all grain that this would be a perfect starter beer for that venture.

Fire Crotch stats

SG - 1.044

FG - 1.012?

SRM - 14.46

IBU - 80