Recipe -AG- Pumpkin beer

[nigel_c]

Brew day yesterday. A week or 2 later then i planned but its in the bucket chugging away now.

Pumpkin Beer.
21L
OG 1.070
IBU 24
Yeast WLP 036 Dusseldorf Alt
ABV aprox 7% if finishes at expected 1.018


Pale malt 3.00 Kg
Vienna malt 3.00 Kg
Flaked rye 0.50 Kg
Biscuit malt 0.25 kg
Special B 0.25 kg
cara pils 0.10 kg

2 small cooking pumpkins were quartered and roasted for 45 @ 140c then 30 @ 190c till soft and turning brown.
This gave me 1.5 Kg of flesh which was added to the mash with the rest of the grains.
Mash time was 90 mins @ 66

Very slow drain for mash ton.

Challanger 9.1% AA 24g @ 60 mins
Sorachi Ace 14.1% AA 10g @ 5 mins

Spices ground and added @ 5 min
1/2 teaspoon of ground ginger
12 cloves
16 all spice berries
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cinnamon


I'm really looking forward to tasting this one in a month or two. I love the clean maltiness the alt yeast brings and the spice blend tasted spot on at sample.
I hope the biscuit and rye add some nice complexity the the body and spicing of the beer and the Sorachi ace just adds a slight hint of lemon.

Will keep posted as it develops.

[Pat_buttercups]

I did a similar one to this last week, the mash drain was unbearably slow, I topped up with brown sugar tho and added about an 8th of a teaspoon of cardamoms. Im hoping
it will turn out well