So not necessarily a style per se but definitely a style. A group of friends do a few “competitions” a year and this is the most recent one.
Here is my first stab at a recipe, i am thinking mostly imperial ipa with quite a bit more color.
For 10 gallons 78% efficiency.
22 lbs 86% 2 row
1 lb 4% Crystal 120
1 lb 4% Crystal 40
1 lb 4% Carared
4 oz 1% Special B
2 oz .5 % Pale Chocolate
1 oz .2% Roast Barley
Beersmith says 1.071 16.4 SRM
Normally I like more simple grainbills but I have used the combo of C-120 and Special B before and I like the balance between them. The Roast barley and Chocolate are there for color. And I have some leftover carared that I want to use up and feel that a red ale is a perfect place. I know this puts me around 12% crystal and am honestly planning on mashing around 153 or so to keep a solid mouth feel.
I am undecided on hops but am thinking something around a 1:1 BU:GU, but probably a little bit more but for starters I was thinking
1.5 oz Magnum 60 min 27 ibu
2 oz Centennial 15 min 13 ibu
but am unsure how to finish… kind of thinking some sort of blend of Cent, Amarillo, Citra, Columbus.
I am still very open to ideas on all of it so let em rip! I did have some idea of replacing 2 row with 10-15% rye because that was the main ingredient in the last “competition” we did and i do like being a smartass. But in all reality I think the combo of lots of crystal and lots of hops will just bury the rye and not make it worth the lautering hassle.