So I'm tired of waiting for my favorite seasonal to drop, so I'm going to try to brew my own. I can't find a recipe, but I know it uses american hops, a clean fermenting yeast, and I need to hit about 55 ibus and 1.065 og. Anybody have any ideas on the grain bill? I'm thinking 2 row base, some munich or vienna, a bit of crystal for color, and piggy backing of the carared thread, I'm thinking the carared will help keep the sweetness down. Red doesn't comeacross sweet in its maltiness, well, to me anyway. I'm looking at using chinook and centennial for hops, with magnum for most of my bittering. I'm just curious what my grain bill should look like.
I have never had an Odells Red but based upon what I read on their website it reads like an Imperial Red to me. Your recipe that you posted a few weeks ago sounds reasonable to me to produce an Imperial Red: “My recipe will be as follows... 6.0 lbs 2 row 6.0 lbs munich 1.0 lb cara red” Cheers!
Who knows!?! It might even be a ‘better’ beer. I have homebrewed a number of clones and most of the time I like my homebrewed beers better. Never underestimate what freshness and controlled conditions yield in a beer! Cheers!
