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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Irish Red #2

Another attempt at an Irish Red in hopes of winning our club's style competition and winning the chance to brew at Fiddlehead brewery.  This one I'm altering my former recipe just a tiny bit, and I'm also doing a water adjustment.  This isn't the first water adjustment I've done, but it's the first one I feel comfortable with.

BATCH #44:
10.5# Maris Otter
4 oz crystal 40
2 oz crystal 90
2 oz special B
4 oz roasted barley
1 oz EKG
Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale

3/11/12 - BREWDAY:
Nice to be brewing again, nice day too.

4/2/12 - STYLE COMPETITION:
Out of 22 entries, I took 2nd.  My other red took 3rd.  I'm happy with that.

5/5/12 - VT HOMEBREW COMPETITION:
A little frustrated... this scored a 42, the highest scoring one in the category, but did not place.  My other red scored a 38 and took 1st.  I may have dug my own ditch by only submitting 2 bottles instead of 3.  But I only had 3 left and I wasn't going to waste them all on the competition, I was not done enjoying them :-)