Moving from kit & kilo brewing to extract brewing was pretty easy. Moving from extract brewing to partial mash was a little bit of a jump. Moving from partial mash to full mash (all grain) was another jump. The Red Dog pale ale was the first full mash beer, and done by Chas.
Red Dog Pale Ale in glasses and ready for drinking.
I’ve had a few bottles of this lying around the house. But it wasn’t until Chas came over to help with the last brew at my place that we finally sat down for a proper taste test.
Was really impressed with the aroma. There was plenty of stone fruit aroma from the Chinook hops. Very good smelling beer.
Then onto the flavour, smooth creamy body and flavour. This is a really easy drinking pale ale. The fruit and malt flavours blend quite well without being wishy-washy. There’s a slight bitterness at the back. And, a hint of spice. Both of those don’t take anything away form the smooth creamy feel of the beer. Rather, they add some sharpness in places. Alcohol content came in at 6.9%. That’s a lot more than the beer gives away. It works to help keep the body big without punching you with that harsh alcohol taste.
Overall this is a very well built beer. There’s a mixture of clean and complex going on without being all over the shop.
Really nice beer to have with most foods. It would work great with seafood or fried food. Fish and chips would go great. Also good with fruit or salad, really anything that’s clean.
This beer was the first all grain brew we’ve done. And it turned out great. Expect a lot more all grain brews, especially from Chas.
-Mikey
We make home brew 
Was over at Chas’s place today and we did a bigger brew of this beer. Chas will write it up soon.
When I got home I found the last of my bottles of this. Cracked it open. Nice. Still very smooth and the creamy-ness seams even better now.
Finger crossed that the new batch of this turns out as well as the last one.