Well, Muffin transferred the Irish Red Ale Extract batch last (Sunday) night. Sans the rest of us. I wusssed out and decided not to drive 3 or more hours each way for all of an hour of work, including prep and clean up. From his description, it looks like the the red ale is really going to be amber or copper, like all of the other "red" ales we sampled last week after brewing. The specific gravity was 1.020, which is about right for the end of primary fermentation, and the flavor profile seems to be lining up with our tasting notes and expectations.
But where is the red ale?
Scone and Muffin scoured the shelves in some of the better Charflotte-area beer purveyors last week, and I did the same here in the Raleigh area over the past few days. We can't seem to find any really red ales. Which begs the question about whether there are so few red ales because no one wants them, or does no one want them because they are so hard to find?
If we manage not be such slackers this week, maybe we can get our tasting notes from brew night posted soon.
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