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Pumpkin Beer?
does anybody have any good pumpkin recipes? preferably an ale since the temps are still a little too warm for lagers. prefer all grain, but will take any recipes someone might have.
I just brewed a pumpkin ale, it's in the secondary right now. As far as final product I cannot comment on since this is the first go around at this recipe. I will share with you if you are interested.
I made a scaled down version of this recipe early in August and it turned out pretty well. I added Munich thinking the malty sweetness would complement the pumpkin well, and it did. I have no idea if that is common practice or not.
5 LB 2 Row
2 LB Munich
1 LB Carapils
.5 LB Crystal 10L
1 oz Northern Brewer(60 min)
1oz Hallertauer (15 mins)
5-7LB Pumpkin (your preference)
1 tsp cinnamon
.5 tsp allspice
.5 tsp ginger
.5 tsp nutmeg
You can do one of three things: Add the Pumpkin to the secondary, add it to the mash, or put it in the boil. I put it in the boil. I think the next batch I make I'll put it in the secondary. Either way I'd use a hop bag becuase I didn't and its a mess. You can also use canned pumpkin if you'd like. You can also add the spices to the secondary using vodka to sterilize them. I just learned this procedure myself.
Cube the pumpkin and bake it as you would for making pie. Bake it until it is soft at 375 takes around 90 mins.
Hope this helps in some way. Perhaps if someone else posts a recipe you can take what you like and use it. I'm going to be brewing a full batch in the next week or so. I love the beers of fall.
I just found this partial mash recipe that I'm hopefully going to knock out this weekend:
Charlie Brown Pumpkin Ale
Ingredients:
7 pounds light dried malt extract
1 pound 40 L Crystal malt
2 pounds pale ale malt
1 whole pumpkin (10 - 15 lbs)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
2 ounces fuggles (90 min)
1 ounces hallertauer (90 min)
1/2 ounce fuggles (5 min)
1/2 cup brown sugar mixed with 1 teaspoon cinnamon and 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spece (for priming)
Wyeast liquid ale yeast, in starter
Procedure:
Clean and quarter the pumpkin, bake for 30 minutes at 350 F. Puree the pulp in food processor or blender. The grains and pumpkin were mashed for 90 minutes at 154 F. This thick mess was then strained into the brewpot (a long process!), and then a standard 90 minute boil took place. When done, cooled with a chiller, and WYEAST starter was pitched. Sorry about the WYEAST number, I forgot to record it. I know it was an ale yeast, and most probably a German ale yeast to be specific, but I am not certain. Standard fermentation and bottling, except the spices were added at priming time wiht the priming sugar.
brownbomber wrote:
I made a scaled down version of this recipe early in August and it turned out pretty well. I added Munich thinking the malty sweetness would complement the pumpkin well, and it did. I have no idea if that is common practice or not.
Making beer taste the way you want it as a homebrewer should he common practice.
The recipe looks good too BTW.
brewchez wrote:
brownbomber wrote:
I made a scaled down version of this recipe early in August and it turned out pretty well. I added Munich thinking the malty sweetness would complement the pumpkin well, and it did. I have no idea if that is common practice or not.
Making beer taste the way you want it as a homebrewer should he common practice.
The recipe looks good too BTW.
I brew a lot of pumpkin ales. Never kept the recipes so don't have a common one but the charile brown pumpkin does look good to me. Is it on the hoppy or mild side? Also when you added the munich malt did you subtract from one of the other grains or sugars? And for extract partial mash how much munich?
Thanx for the tips
DC
The Charlie Brown turned out quite spicy from all the spices in it. Didn't get a lot of hoppiness through those.
Anyone have a clone of dogfish head ale punkin ale?
I was wondering what caramelly sweet beer like a Baltic Porter or a Scotch Ale would taste like brewed with pumpkin or even sweet potatos. Sweet potatos that sounds good actually.
If someone tries a sweet potato ale as described, I want half the credit.
I know of a place here in Maine called Bray's whose seasonal Halloween beer is called Yamityville Horror using, well you take a stab at it. I haven't gotten a chance to try it yet. Anyone else on this board from Maine or visiting ever try it? They are a small establishment and so aren't bottling yet. They are in Naples I believe.
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