Red Chair NWPA: Round 1

[Rambleon]

I love this beer. Always have. Every January I'm frantically searching the aisles for the new year's batch of Red Chair. When summer rolls around the Red Chair dries up and I fall into a deep depression. Based on the specs Deschutes gives on the website I'm going to brew this until I get it right.

From the website:
NW 2-row pale malt
Crystal malt
Carastan
Carapils
Munich
Pilsner

Cascade
Centennial

English ale yeast

My recipe:
4# 2-row
4# pilsner
2# Munich
1# C-60
.5# carapils
.5# carastan

1oz centennial @60
1oz centennial @15
1oz cascade @15
1oz cascade @1

WLP 007 dry English ale

Updates to follow...

 

[dawgmatic]

I would be interested in hearing your results

 

[techbrewie]

this is my favorite pale ale by a large margin. deschutes doesnt make a marginal beer imo. subscribed, be sure to keep us updated with tasting comparisons

not sure if id go with 60l or 40l for the crystal. maybe wlp002 englis ale, red chair is a bit sweet. 007 might ferment a little too far. everything else looks good. my guess is the secret is in the hop sched. my 2 cents.

 

[smakudwn]

Are you going to use a 90 min boil because of the Pils?

 

[Rambleon]

Brewed this last night and it came out really well. At the last minute I swapped out the C-60 for C-40 to lighten it a bit. I also did a 90 minute boil because of the pilsner. Most of the Red Chair clones I've seen only have about a pound of pilsner in their recipes but I have a hard time believing a brewery as large as Deschutes would include an ingredient that's contribution is negligible. I was shooting for 1.060 and came out at 1.059. The hops smell dead on but time will tell if I put them in at the right times. I chose the 007 because I've had problems getting the 002 to attenuate as well as White Labs says it can.

All in all it smells like Red Chair but looks a tad darker. We'll see what the yeast do about that. I'm drinking whatever comes out of that fermenter, cloned or not.

 

[techbrewie]

sounds good! cant wait to hear your tasting notes. i absolutely love red chair. chainbreaker is on my to-clone list as well.

 

[bob1852]

Here's my attempt with some notes and good discussion.

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f66/red-chair-nwpa-clone-360189/