Making an Irish red similar to O'Hara's

[benji]

Thanks Conor, your a gent, just out of curiosity how far is your housing in walking distance from UCD

[Bubbles]

No bother man. I'll PM you my address.

[benji]

Fair play to Conor, he met up with me and gave me the ingredients , I'm gonna brew as his recipe except I'll us 1kg of spray-malt instead of 750g, I'll keep ye posted as to how it turns out

[LordEoin]

using the full kilo is usually best.
Otherwise you're left with 250G opened, and at the slightest whiff of moisture it'll clump up (no matter how well you seal the damn thing) 

[benji]

Hey guys only got to brew this a couple of days ago, this is what I ended up brewing

Coopers EB kit
1 kg of Dark spraymalt
Mauribrew 514 Ale Yeast 12.5g
100g of crystal 75
30g  of roasted barley, both crushed and steeped
Liquid then boiled with 30g of fuggles for 15 minutes
Brewed to 22 litres
OG 1038

As you can see the recipe is a little different than the one Conor recommended,
I used dark spraymalt simply because that's what I had in my press ,
I used Mauribrew Ale yeast instead of Nottingham because the HBC shop was out of stock,
I'll keep you posted how it turns out

[LordEoin]

sounds nice
but did you boil the EB kit? if you did it might be quite bitter

[Vermelho]

How did this turn out for people I'm gonna try do an all grain version.

[Bubbles]

Wow, this is a blast from the past! I'm interested to know how this turned out myself, benji!

[ronanp]

I have done the St peters ruby red kit, the last time with some carapils. I like it but think it's missing something. Don't have all the right vocabulary to describe it properly. But to my mind the taste seams to start well but the finish could be a bit more complex or have a bit more going on.

Any suggestions for hacks to this kit or others that may give me what I am after. I suspose it's a good excuse to go buy some irish red craft ale to help me figure out more clearly what I am after. 

[LordEoin]

try crystal instead of carapils, maybe even add in a bit of something like melanoiden or biscuit malt.

[ronanp]

I though I saw the Craft Range where coming out with a new red ale kit. Would certainly try that.  But checked there website and saw no sign of that, so not sure if i made it up.

[Kevin O'Roundwood]

No, the HBW fella mentioned it on the forum here about a month back but they had to check something about it first. I haven't heard anything about it since...

[finn]

I'm pretty interested in brewing something close to O'Hara's IR, and this is the most promising I've come across so far. But I won't be using a kit, and I don't know what I should use as an all grain mix to make up for that Cooper's EB kit. Might someone of you guys here who seems to have a rather good grip on this, suggest an all grain recipe?

[Bubbles]

It wouldn't be a clone per se, but here's an excellent Irish red recipe from JohnC..

http://www.nationalhomebrewclub.ie/forum/index.php/topic,7556.0.html