Irish Red Ale

[Kegory]

This Irish Red Ale recipe looks like it is one of the older recipes on the site.

For the steep it says:

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add to 2 litres of water at the boil, remove from the heat and steep for 60 mins.

The newer recipes all seem to only call for a 30min steep between 60-70 degrees C. And that seems to be the more modern consensus on steeping according to what I've been reading recently, most of which can be found in the links in this thread https://community.diybeer.com/topic/12745-malted-grains-hot-steep-vs-cold-steep/

I'm leaning heavily towards steeping between 60-70 for 30 minutes and then maybe doing a sparge steep at 60 for another 30 minutes.

What would you do?

[Pale Man]

11 minutes ago, Kegory said:

This Irish Red Ale recipe looks like it is one of the older recipes on the site.

For the steep it says:

The newer recipes all seem to only call for a 30min steep between 60-70 degrees C. And that seems to be the more modern consensus on steeping according to what I've been reading recently, most of which can be found in the links in this thread https://community.diybeer.com/topic/12745-malted-grains-hot-steep-vs-cold-steep/

I'm leaning heavily towards steeping between 60-70 for 30 minutes and then maybe doing a sparge steep at 60 for another 30 minutes.

What would you do?

Me, I'd cold steep overnight using those grains. You wont extract as much astringency. 

[DavidM]

I have all the ingredients for this one, so will give it a go.

I do like a Red 

[Shamus O'Sean]

8 hours ago, Kegory said:

This Irish Red Ale recipe looks like it is one of the older recipes on the site.

For the steep it says:

The newer recipes all seem to only call for a 30min steep between 60-70 degrees C. And that seems to be the more modern consensus on steeping according to what I've been reading recently, most of which can be found in the links in this thread https://community.diybeer.com/topic/12745-malted-grains-hot-steep-vs-cold-steep/

I'm leaning heavily towards steeping between 60-70 for 30 minutes and then maybe doing a sparge steep at 60 for another 30 minutes.

What would you do?

I agree with @Pale Man.  Cold steep is also easiest.  You do not want flavour from the Roasted Barley, just colour.  Having said that, if hot steep suits your brewday better, you could still go that way.  You will not get much astringency from 50g of Roasted Barley.  I would just do 30 minutes at 60-70°C.