{"id":29,"date":"2009-05-15T08:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T13:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2009-10-15T22:00:20","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T03:00:20","slug":"batch-7-09-red-ale","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Batch #9-09: Red Ale"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Style<\/td>\nRed Ale<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ingredients<\/td>\nEdme Red Ale Pre-Hopped Malt Extract Kit<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Brewing Date:<\/td>\nMonday: August 31, 09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Primary Fermentation:<\/td>\nMonday: August 31, 09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Original Gravity:<\/td>\n1.030<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Secondary Fermentation:<\/td>\nn\/a<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bottling Date:<\/td>\nSaturday, September 5, 09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Gravity:<\/td>\n1.010<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Release Date:<\/td>\nColumbus Day Weekend: Friday, October 9, 09<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Alcohol by volume:<\/td>\n3.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Final Release Name:<\/strong><\/td>\nMaid Mariam Red Ale
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This is the final kit brew I plan on making for the year.\u00a0 Edme’s strange labels obviously strike again: this one even being somewhat scary.\u00a0 The kits have been pretty good so far, so I’ll just enjoy the marketing department’s eccentric style.\u00a0 I’ll admit this: that is probably one of the biggest things attracting me to these products.<\/p>\n

I’ve also noticed that my main supplier may have discontinued the Edme extract kit product line.\u00a0 Their (Heart’s) web site no longer lists any of these products in stock.\u00a0 So it looks like I can treat this batch as somewhat of an antique.\u00a0 I just hope there are economic or other business reasons for the discontinuance, and not some major health-related recall I overlooked.\u00a0 \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

31 Aug 09 :: 8:00PM –Brewed the batch with 20oz of corn sugar.\u00a0 I intentionally lowered the sugar quantity to make a thinner batch of beer.\u00a0 Cooking time was 20 minutes, heating the water and corn sugar to a boil, and adding the malt extract as the boil began.\u00a0 The remainder was the usual cooling the pot in an ice bath, and pouring into two gallons of cold water in the bucket, then topping off to 6 gallons.\u00a0 Yeast was pitched at 83 degrees.<\/p>\n

I am again using the swamp technique on the bucket for fermentation.<\/p>\n

01 Sep 09 :: 06:30AM — The bubble cycle is at a consistent 2-3 second interval.\u00a0 A good start.<\/p>\n

04 Sep 09 :: 06:30AM — The bubble cycle is a little under a minute, so I think a hydrometer reading tonight may be required.<\/p>\n

04 Sep 09 :: 6:30PM — Hydrometer reading.<\/p>\n

05 Sep 09 :: 9:00PM — Hydrometer reading duplicated.\u00a0 Bottled the beer in 61 12oz bottles, and one 28oz bottle (the Ikea special).\u00a0 The beer has a reddish color, with brown tint.\u00a0 Something really impressed me about this beer.\u00a0 When I siphoned it to the bottling bucket, the residual foam building in the bottling bucket from the transfer was very thick–almost like the head from a Guinness on tap.\u00a0 I really hope this quality is retained after conditioning.\u00a0 One of my favorite things about Guinness on tap is the smooth, thick head on the beer.<\/p>\n

I used 1\/4 tsp of corn sugar in each individual bottle for priming sugar, and 3\/4 teaspoon in the 28oz snap-top bottle.<\/p>\n

12 Sep 09 :: 7:00PM — Cracked open a bottle.\u00a0 Good carbonation, and good taste.<\/p>\n

19 Sep 09 :: 8:00PM — Cracked open another bottle. This one had the head reminiscent of Guinness on tap.\u00a0 The flavor is very smooth, and had just a hint of a lambic bite.\u00a0 This batch is looking quite good.<\/p>\n

15 Oct 09 — Received good feedback on this batch.\u00a0 I also opened the Ikea 32oz bottle, and it produced a wonderful head when poured into the glass.\u00a0 My other crown cap bottles are only producing about 0.5 to 1 inch of head.\u00a0 I think my capper may have an issue: one to put on the maintenance list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Style Red Ale Ingredients Edme Red Ale Pre-Hopped Malt Extract Kit Brewing Date: Monday: August 31, 09 Primary Fermentation: Monday: August 31, 09 Original Gravity: 1.030 Secondary Fermentation: n\/a Bottling Date: Saturday, September 5, 09 Final Gravity: 1.010 Release Date: Columbus Day Weekend: Friday, October 9, 09 Alcohol by volume: 3.1% Final Release Name: Maid […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":19,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-29","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}