Beer Style: Scottish Schilling and Irish Red Ale
Gordon Strong’s Irish Red Ale
My recipe is a middle-of-the-road example for Ireland. It uses a rather dextrinous base malt (mild malt) with a little bit of oats to increase the mouthfeel.
Irish Red Ale
A style that has been twisted and misshapen when big, multi-national breweries started to popularize their brands, Irish red ales had for some time lost their way. Gordon Strong wants to take this style back to its Irish roots.
Saddle Mountain Brewing Co.’s Taildragger Clan-Destine clone
Checking in at 6.2% ABV and 22 IBU, Clan-Destine is medium-full bodied, drinks rich with notes of toffee and caramel from Golden Promise and Crystal 77 additions, yet finishes clean without being heavy.
Gordon Strong’s Scottish Export
This recipe can easily be scaled down to make a Scottish heavy, say at 3.5% ABV, or scaled up to a stronger but still export strength 5.2% beer. Pick the alcohol level you want, and let your recipe software do the work for you to scale it.
Brewing Traditional Scottish Ales
The beer styles of Scotland have been misunderstood for years. While entire books have been written on these beers, it seems that many brewers and beer enthusiasts have focused on minor points,
Scottish 70/- Heavy
Scottish 70/- Heavy (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.035 FG = 1.012IBU = 13 SRM = 13 ABV = 3% Ingredients6.5 lbs. (2.7 kg) Golden Promise pale ale malt6 oz. (170 g) flaked
Scottish 60/- Light
Scottish 60/- Light (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.032 FG = 1.012IBU = 17 SRM = 18 ABV = 2.5% Ingredients4 lbs. (1.8 kg) Golden Promise pale ale malt1 lb. (0.45 kg)
Stewart Brewing Co.’s Stewart’s 80/- clone
Stewart Brewing Co.’s Stewart’s 80/- clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.043 FG = 1.009IBU = 28 SRM = 18 ABV = 4.4% Stewart’s 80/- is a full-bodied, full-flavored, auburn-colored classic Scottish heavy
Brewing Award-Winning Irish Red Ales
Irish red ale is a rather simplistic style to brew. It often only has one hop addition for the sake of bitterness, it doesn’t require any unique ingredients or brewing methods, and
Parti Like It’s 1700
Parti-gyle is an under-utilized technique in the brewing world, which is capable of producing multiple beer types during a single brew day. Here is a recipe from Aaron Hyde outlining a parti-gyle recipe which uses a 1⁄3 and 2⁄3 split of the mash, with the smaller volume Wee Heavy collected first and the larger volume Scottish Export being collected second.
Short’s Brewing Company: Magician Ale clone
“The Magician is a lustrous, dark-red, London style Red Ale with a rich grain bill. The grain combination lends complex notes of toasted caramel, raisins, chocolate, and roasted toffee. Very light hop additions let the true malt characters show throughout this beer.”
Ninkasi Brewing Company: Racin’ Mason Irish Red Ale clone
This classic Irish red pours a dark red/copper color and features a sweet caramel and toasted malt profile.
