Description
Heretic Brewing – Evil Twin
This blood red ale may not be what you might expect from a malty hoppy craft beer. Evil Twin has a rich malt character without being overly sweet. It has a huge hop character without being overly bitter.
Ingredients Included
Simpsons Finest Lager Malt
Simpsons Heritage Crystal Malt
Simpsons Munich Malt
Simpsons Roasted Barley
Columbus Pellets (57 grams)
Citra Pellets (73 grams)
SafAle US-05 11.5g (1 packs)
Method
Beer Style (main): American Ales
Beer Style (sub): American-Style Amber/Red Ale
Batch Size: 19L
Original Gravity: 1.064
Final Gravity: 1.014
ABV %: 6.6%
IBU: 45
THE MASH
Temperature °C: 67c
Length (mins): 60
Out temp °C: 75
Out time (mins): 10
THE BOIL
Boil time (mins): 90mins
Additions and timing:
60 min – 9g Columbus
0 min – 25g Columbus
0 min – 25g Citra
Allow wort to stand for 20 mins
Secondary additions and timing:
Ferment at 19c for 7 days
Then add dry hop and raise to 22c
23g Citra
23g Columbus
After 4 days add second dry hop for 3 more days
25g Citra
Once the beer reaches FG cold crash 48hrs then package
Yeast: US-05
Fermentation temperature/steps: 19c for 7 days, 22c for 7 days
Comments:
Heretic Brewing – Evil Twin
This blood red ale may not be what you might expect from a malty hoppy craft beer. Evil Twi has a rich malt character without being overly sweet. It has a huge hop character without being overly bitter.
From Jamil – This beer relies on extensive flameout and dry hopping additions to achieve its signature hop nose, with only a small bittering addition, it even makes use of a second dry hopping round.
Martin Hudson (verified owner) –
One of the best red ales I’ve tasted and right up their with the commercial version. I fermented under pressure and then transferred it oxygen free to my keg. I’ve also bottled a few litres so that friends and family can share such a brilliant beer. The results are excellent, in a nut shell…Bloody gorgeous….Dangerously sessionable. Will be re-ordering very soon and may do a double batch its that good
ROBERT WILTSHIRE (verified owner) –
Have to agree with Martin one of the best beers I have made. Fermented under pressure and bottled the whole batch. Two weeks to carbonated two weeks in fridge and now couple of week later it is a fantastic drink. Malty and hoppy and not to bitter, rapidly becoming my favourite. The colour is great also.