# 7 Flanders Red

I took a short vacation in the Portland Maine area last week. Portland has a great beer and food culture with several breweries and  brew pubs. Every restaurant I ate at had a great beer selection. The beer I drank the most while in Portland was Rodenbach.

    This will be my first attempt at the Flanders Red style. It's a great style but I'm going to stray from tradition a bit. I try  to use American and/or organic ingredients whenever possible which is obviously not traditional.

Flanders Red

Fermentables - 7# Briess Pale Malt, 4oz Briess Organic 60, 2oz Special B

Hops - 1oz Crystal pellet

Yeast - Wyeast 3763 Roeselare Ale Blend

Mash - 60 min

Boil - 90 min 

Fermentation Temp - 70F

Batch Size - 3 Gallon

OG - 1.062

FG - 

Competition: Lambic

I decided to enter my first home brewing competition. As I looked through my cellar of beers I only had one that would fit into

a BJCP style category, other than the specially category. I picked the  No Boil Lambic.  Even though it is far from tradition not to boil a Lamic, this one still came out very close to style. It's also my favorite beer I've ever brewed. At the very least I'll get some good feed back. I'll be posting on the results good or bad in the future.