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Red Lager

168 calories 15.7 g 12 oz
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Beer Stats
Method: All Grain
Style: Irish Red Ale
Boil Time: 60 min
Batch Size: 76 gallons (ending kettle volume)
Pre Boil Size: 80 gallons
Pre Boil Gravity: 12.1 °P (recipe based estimate)
Efficiency: 80% (ending kettle)
Calories: 168 calories (Per 12oz)
Carbs: 15.7 g (Per 12oz)
Created: Thursday May 22nd 2025
12.7 °P
2.6 °P
5.5%
27.0
14.9
5.3
110.17
 
Fermentables
Amount Fermentable Cost PPG °L Bill %
55 lb Bestmalz - Best RED X55 lb Best RED X $ 0.90 / lb
$ 49.50 		36 12 40.7%
53 lb Canada Malting - CMC 2-ROW MALT53 lb CMC 2-ROW MALT $ 0.71 / lb
$ 37.63 		36 1.75 39.3%
10 lb Great Western - Light Munich Malt10 lb Light Munich Malt $ 0.84 / lb
$ 8.40 		37.3 6 7.4%
10 lb Canada Malting - WHITE WHEAT MALT10 lb WHITE WHEAT MALT $ 0.73 / lb
$ 7.30 		38.1 3.5 7.4%
6 lb Briess - Extra Special Malt6 lb Extra Special Malt 33.5 130 4.4%
1 lb Thomas Fawcett - Roasted Barley1 lb Roasted Barley $ 1.10 / lb
$ 1.10 		31.5 545 0.7%
135 lbs / $ 103.93
 
Hops
Amount Variety Cost Type AA Use Time IBU Bill %
1 oz Yakima Chief Hops - Columbus LupuLN2 (Cryo)1 oz Columbus LupuLN2 (Cryo) Hops $ 0.00 / oz
$ 0.00 		Lupulin Pellet 24.5 Boil 60 min 6.2 11.1%
4 oz Yakima Chief Hops - Ekuanot LupuLN2 (Cryo)4 oz Ekuanot LupuLN2 (Cryo) Hops $ 1.56 / oz
$ 6.24 		Lupulin Pellet 21.4 Boil 15 min 10.74 44.4%
4 oz Yakima Chief Hops - Loral LupuLN2 (Cryo)4 oz Loral LupuLN2 (Cryo) Hops Lupulin Pellet 20.1 Boil 15 min 10.09 44.4%
9 oz / $ 6.24
 
Other Ingredients
Amount Name Cost Type Use Time
20 g Calcium Chloride (anhydrous) Water Agt Mash 1 hr.
20 g Gypsum Water Agt Mash 1 hr.
45 ml Phosphoric acid Water Agt Mash 0 min.
 
Yeast
Lallemand - LalBrew NovaLager™
Amount:
1.07 Each
Cost:
Attenuation (custom):
78%
Flocculation:
Medium
Optimum Temp:
50 - 68 °F
Starter:
No
Fermentation Temp:
-
Pitch Rate:
0.35 (M cells / ml / ° P) 1279 B cells required
$ 0.00 Yeast Pitch Rate and Starter Calculator
Priming
CO2 Level: 2.65 Volumes
 
Target Water Profile
Balanced Profile
Ca+2 Mg+2 Na+ Cl- SO4-2 HCO3-
90.9 30 61 96.8 97.7 1.5
Mash Chemistry and Brewing Water Calculator
 
Mash Guidelines
Amount Description Type Start Temp Target Temp Time
60.5 gal Strike 159 °F 151 °F 60 min
Starting Mash Thickness: 2 qt/lb
Starting Grain Temp: 70 °F
Quick Water Requirements
Water Gallons  Quarts
WARNING: Boil kettle capacity (12 gal | 48 qt) exceeded. Volume required: 77.84 gal (311.35 qt). Suggest reducing initial water volume to 12 gal (48 qt) and adding 65.84 gal (263.35 qt) sparge/top-off.    
WARNING: Mash tun capacity exceeded. Volume required: 78.3 gal (313.2 qt). Suggest reducing initial water volume to 1.2 gal (4.8 qt) and adding 66.3 gal (265.2 qt) sparge/top-off. 67.5 270  
Strike water volume at mash thickness of 2 qt/lb 67.5 270  
Mash volume with grains 78.3 313.2  
Grain absorption losses -16.88 -67.5  
Remaining sparge water volume 29.63 118.5  
Mash Lauter Tun losses -0.25 -1  
Pre boil volume (equipment estimates 77.84 g | 311.4 qt) 80 320  
Boil off losses -1.5 -6  
Hops absorption losses (first wort, boil, aroma) -0.34 -1.4  
Post boil volume (equipment estimates 78.16 g | 312.7 qt) 76 304  
Estimated amount in fermentor 76 304  
Total: 97.13 388.5
Equipment Profile Used: System Default
 
Notes

3 scoops of rice hulls per tube

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