Pumpkin Ale Recipe

[jr55399]

Whatcha think? Lot going on, but it's a pumpkin beer. Looking for some creaminess/sweetness from the lactose, roastiness from the chocolate and special roast, a hint of chocolate and some oak for an older flavor. Comments and criticisms welcome....

5 gallon batch
Partial Mash
Oak age w/ oak cubes?

6 # Light DME

2# Vienna
1# Oatmeal (toasted a few days ahead of time)
1# Brown Sugar
12 oz. Medium Crystal
8 oz. Special Roast
8 oz. Aromatic
4 oz. Chocolate

Mash grains/oats for 45 minutes at 150
90 minute boil (1/2 DME at 90 and ½ plus brown sugar at 50)

1 oz. Santiam 45 minutes
1 oz. EKG 20 minutes
Irish Moss at 10
1 tsp pumpkin pie mix at 5 minutes

Ferment with Cali ale yeast at 68 for 2 weeks.
Transfer to secondary on top of 4 oz. Lactose and spice mixture.
2 days later add the oak cube.
Age for 1 month.
Bottle or keg.

Spice Mixture
1 tsp nutmeg
1 tsp allspice
1.5oz thin sliced ginger root
1 cinnamon stick
1/4 tsp Vanilla Extract

All spices boiled together in 2 cups water and 4 oz. Makers Mark for 15 minutes. Add vanilla at “flameout”. Let chill. Remove Cinnamon stick and ginger root pieces and pour the liquid in to 2ndary.

[Ó Flannagáin]

Looks good to me. I always found pumpkins with a huge grainbill tend to be the best.

[rooster445]

never tried one

[MrMarbleHead]

Not a huge fan of Pumkin beers but that recipe looks pretty interesting, compared to a lot of them that I have seen.

There is something that I have wanted to try, I seen a not so great attempt on another forum. First take a really big pumpkin, cut open the top, and gut it, then soak it in sanitizer or Camden for a couple of days. Then fill with beer and seal all the cuts with wax and drill a hole and afix an air lock and seal it with wax. Bam pumpkin fermentor. May be some one could try that because I will probably be to lazy to do it.

[rooster445]

I like how this recipe looks I think I will try something like it


http://beerrecipes.org/showrecipe.php?recipeid=571

[marzen41]

i,ve always used a whole fresh pie pumkin in tne mash. i quarter the pumpkin aand bake until soft then mash as usual, then add pumpkin pie spices at flameout