Pumpkin Ale

[Rats]

Anybody have a good pumpkin ale receipe for me. My pumpkins are ready and we will have some left over.:

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[Metattron]

I did this one last year and it was pretty good.  I used canned pumpkin but if you roaast your pumpkin and add it to the mash it should be similar, maybe more caramel notes from the roasting.  The spice is an american pumpkin pie spice mix I got from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Organic-Pumpkin-Spice-Seasoning-Standard/dp/B004L50406/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1380490833&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=pumpkin+pie+spice

Other spices are available.   I think the spice contributed more than the pumpkin did though.  Very nice anyway.  Good full bodied ale.


Recipe: Legless Horeseman Pumpkin Ale
Recipe Specifications
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Boil Size: 25.81 l
Post Boil Volume: 23.92 l
Estimated OG: 1.055 SG
Estimated Color: 26.0 EBC
Estimated IBU: 18.9 IBUs
Boil Time: 60 Minutes

Ingredients:
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Amt                   Name                       
2.50 kg               Pale Malt, Maris Otter
1.30 kg               Pumpkin
1.00 kg               Amber Malt (60.0 EBC)
0.78 kg               Wheat Malt, Light
0.04 kg               Chocolate Malt
0.12 kg               Dememera Sugar
25.00 g               Hallertauer Mittelfrueh [4.20 %] - Boil  60.0 min     
16.00 g               Willamette [5.20 %] - Boil 60.0 min     
1.00 Items            Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins)       
1 tsp              Pumpkin Pie Spice (Boil 0.0 mins)       
1.0 pkg               Dusseldorf Alt Yeast (White Labs #WLP036 )


Mash Schedule: Single Infusion, Medium Body
Total Grain Weight: 5.74 kg
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Name              Description                             Step Temperature Step Time         
Mash In           Add 14.66 l of water at 73.1 C          66.7 C           60 min             
Mash Out          Add 8.21 l of water at 93.7 C           75.6 C           10 min             

Sparge: Fly sparge with 8.57 l water at 75.6 C

[MisterBurns]

Found this online and bottled it at the weekend - will let you know how it tastes once I crack a bottle

POCAHONTAS' PUMPKIN PLEASER
5 gallons, extract/specialty grains

Owen Ogletree & Paul Eckloff
Brewtopia
Athens, Ga.

"This is a rich, smooth pumpkin ale with a nice sweetness and spiciness. It won third place in specialty fruit/spice beers two years ago in the Peach State Brew-Off in Georgia."

Ingredients:
•6.6 lbs. amber malt extract syrup
•1 lb. crystal malt, 40° to 60° Lovibond
•1 oz. Willamette pellets, for 45 min.
•1 oz. Styrian Goldings hop pellets, for 15 min.
•2 lbs. canned Libby's all-natural pumpkin
•3 cinnamon sticks
•1 lb. honey
•11.5 g. Edme ale dried yeast
•3/4 cup sugar for priming
Step by Step:
Steep grain in 2 gals. of water while gradually heating kettle. Remove grains at 170° F. At boil add extract, pumpkin, and Willamette hops. Boil 30 minutes. Add two cinnamon sticks, honey, and Styrian Goldings hops. Boil 15 more minutes. Turn off heat and add last cinnamon stick. Add wort to 3 gals. cold water in fermenter. When cooled, pitch yeast. Primary ferment seven to 10 days and secondary one to two weeks.

[SB]

Hi lads

Would love to try a pumpkin ale.  do you know where you are able to get your hands on canned pumpkin?

[Metattron]

You can get tins of Libby's Pumpkin on Amazon.  I've used it before.

[Rats]

JC's in Swords sell caned pumpkin

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[SB]

Great thanks a million lads

[SlugTrap]

Canned pumpkin in Fallon & Byrne's, too, if you're in Dub centre.

Pumpkin pie spice, FYI, is a mix of cinnamon, nutmeg, ground ginger, and cloves. Any of the last 3 can overpower a beer so if you don't use a pre-mix, I'd be careful with them.

[biertourist]

I really like the idea of using an alt strain in a pumpkin ale; I think that could be pretty fantastic.


Adam