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Pumpkin Beer Recipe (Read 635 times)


Prince of Fatness

    I'm not going to worry about the gravity reading.  Generally I come close to what the recipe calculates, and I use 70% efficiency.  I'll take a reading when I rack it to the carboy just to see how far along it is.

     

    I usually shoot for 5 1/4 gallons, and we got a little more this time.  I didn't notice that the flame was not on as high. 

     

    I will let you know what it tastes like in a couple of weeks when I rack it to secondary.

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    Trent


    Good Bad & The Monkey

      I never worry about the gravity.  But I am always curious.


      Prince of Fatness

        I never worry about the gravity.  But I am always curious.

         

        Yeah, I'm curious, but not enough to bother taking the lid off, etc.  Plus, it's already chugging along at over a bubble a second. 

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        Prince of Fatness

          Update.

           

          22 days in the bucket today, so I racked it over to the carboy.  Filled that sucker to the top and had to pour out a couple of glasses.  Oh well, it ain't my beer.

           

          Took a gravity reading ... 1.010.  Looks like it is mostly fermented out.

           

          Aroma.  Damn, when I opened the bucket you could definitely smell the spices.  Not as much as brew day, but still.

           

          Taste.  It definitely tasted like a pumpkin beer.   I had my kid sample, he said the same.  I definitely did not over spice.  A couple months in the carboy and it will be fine.  As for the squash,  I am not sure how much that came into play with the flavor.  Maybe a little.

           

          I think that this will be a decent beer.  If I had to do it again I may up the spices just a tad, but I have no complaints. 

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          Prince of Fatness

            We bottled over the weekend.  The spices mellowed quite a bit, but they are there.  I would use more next time.  It definitely tastes like a pumpkin beer.  I am not sure how much of a squash taste there is ... seems like some is there.

             

            Anyway, the son in law is pleased to have a couple of cases of it.  He's going to wait until September at the earliest to have some.

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            Prince of Fatness

              I finally got around to having one of these over the weekend.  I really didn't get much of a taste from the squash, although my son in law said that he could taste it.  I think that we spiced it pretty well.  The spices mellowed quite a bit with aging but are definitely there.  All in all I would say that this one turned out pretty well.  The son in law wants to brew this one again next year.

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              Prince of Fatness

                FFS, I brewed that pumpkin beer 7 years ago?  I bring this back from the dead because my son is getting married in October and wants to brew a pumpkin beer for the occasion.  I am tweaking the recipe a bit.  This is what we will do...

                 

                Pumpkin Beer (to be named later), 11 qts

                 

                3.5 lbs US 2 Row Pale

                1.5 lbs Light Munich

                .75 lbs Aromatic

                .5 lbs Caramunich III

                6 oz Black Strap Molasses (add late in boil)

                2 lbs (after roasting) Butternut Squash (roast beforehand, cube, and add for entire boil (see below))

                 

                1 oz Tettnang hops (60 minutes)

                 

                Wyeast 1968 London ESB, 1 qt starter

                 

                Spices

                Cloves, cinnamon, nutmeg (amounts tbd and will depend on my mood)

                 

                Mash 152 for an hour.  Boil for an hour.  Chill and pitch yeast.  Bottle after about 4 weeks.  Use brown sugar to prime.

                 

                I got the idea to add the squash to the boil instead of the mash here.  I was intrigued so that's what we'll do.  H suggests to sprinkle brown sugar on the squash when roasting but I'm not doing that.  I am adding molasses to the boil so I'll get that flavor from there.

                 

                Brewing this the last weekend in August.

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                Prince of Fatness

                  We bottled the wedding beer a couple of days ago.  It came out nice.  Spices are more on the nose than the palette.  It's a nice pumpkin beer.

                   

                  The kid had some nice labels made for it.  We put them all on and I noticed that the year of their wedding day was 28 instead of 18!  We must have looked at them 100 times before then.   I was able to take the labels off easily and he will have correct labels made.

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