bovineblitz

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I don't think you want to boil the spices for that long.

Stoutman82

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Yeah you'll get more flavor adding them to the secondary in my opinion

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Szimdars

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I am looking for less heat so I think I may avoid the extra chilis, but theat could be a future variation if you want to go that route. I feel as though some smoked malts with the addition of chipotles should do very well.

Also giving it some thought, I will likely use ~2/3 cup of bourbon to soak/sanitiza my chilis and spices and toss the whole kittenkiboodle in, liquor and all into my secondary.

I will certainly keep everyone posted, and give a cleaned up play by play after I organize all of my feedback; I plan on brewing 8/22-ish.





****Further Question is Libby's the preferred brand of pumpkin pulp? and if unavailable what dop you look for to avoid contamination of preservatives from the canning process etc?

****If using pulp and not pumpkin from scratch, does the procedure change? I assume there is a volume adjustment but how do you filter out the 'nasties' from the boiled grainy pumpkin flesh? I am imagining thickness like pulpy orange juice, and though I like cloudy beer I don't like chewable beer. ..... Thoughts?

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Secondary: Trippel Double Belgian I.P.A; American-Style Pale Ale
Bottles: Maibock, American Amber, Cran-Apple spiced Cyser, Standard E.S.B., American I.P.A., Cardamom-Citrus Belgian Wit

Stoutman82

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So any word yet on how this went!

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Szimdars

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Sorry to everyone subscribed, took a while to get everything in order to move on this. There ended up being variations once again, hashing out practicalities of everything but brewed this yesterday and it already smells, looks, and tastes awesome.The pumpkin spice porter which went into the primary tastes like pumpkin pie and is black, the foam which formed is burnt orange and it is incredibly aromatic.

Anywho, so I made my own pumpkin pie spice with ginger, allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg 2.5 heaping tablespoons in the boil following a schedule of 1-60m, 1-30m, .5-5min. I used 45 oz of pure organic pumpkin puree (in lieu of Libby's and purchased from central market).

We plan to keep this in the primary for 7 days, and rack to the primary for 14 days, the age in bottles for quite some time; tentative sampling date of halloween and probably drink some for thanksgiving and christmas and stock the rest for next year.

For the 5.25GAL batch, I have 14oz of Jim Beam kentucky Straight Bourbon steeping 8oz of hickory smoking chips, two cinnamon sticks and 3 ancho chilis; all but the chips (including the liquor will go into the secondary)

The OG is 1.056.


So here we go, I'll get pix when the time comes and possibly get the recipe on here too.

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Primary: Ancho Smoked Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Porter; Hickory Smoked Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter
Secondary: Trippel Double Belgian I.P.A; American-Style Pale Ale
Bottles: Maibock, American Amber, Cran-Apple spiced Cyser, Standard E.S.B., American I.P.A., Cardamom-Citrus Belgian Wit

Szimdars

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This has turned out to be DELICIOUS and a favorite from everyone. Thanks for the imput!

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Primary: Ancho Smoked Chocolate Pumpkin Pie Porter; Hickory Smoked Bourbon Vanilla Imperial Porter
Secondary: Trippel Double Belgian I.P.A; American-Style Pale Ale
Bottles: Maibock, American Amber, Cran-Apple spiced Cyser, Standard E.S.B., American I.P.A., Cardamom-Citrus Belgian Wit

SplendidWalrusZombie

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Hello All - Under a new alias since I lost my password and let that other email address go by the wayside but I wanted to revive this thread and update for 2012.

So taste notes on the 2011 Gourd Almighty - Ancho-Smoked Pumpkin Pie Porter after drinking my final bottle of reserve the other day:
- The maltiness and body has subsided through aging to become a bit dry and thin, not great for style
- Flavor is even better: pumpkin is still a *bit* muted for my tastes but for more prevelant than it originally was
- The heat is there on the back palate but barely, rather there was a pleasant smoky peppery flavor at the end and dissolves into lingering ginger and pumpkin
- The pie spice though balanced seemed to linger with dryness - I can only attribute this to ground spice and no crash chilling to remove it all, biggest complaint.
- Everyone else seemed far less critical and really enjoyed it.

That being said I have already got my 2012 AG version in the primary fermenter and am posting a thread about that below and I believe ai have nailed the issues to hone it in a bit better. Please feel free to jump in there as well though it may be too late for my personal adjustments, I think I can give a vote of confidence to all who were interested and say that - Yes, the flavors overall played very well together. This time I will make sure to get pics beginning secondary transfer, etc.... PROSIT!

New Thread: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f36/ancho-pumpkin-pie-imperial-porter-ag-2012-a-359930/#post4483366

Stoutman82

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This year I doubled the pumpkin and dialed back the spices some but I'm interested to hear how yours turns out

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SplendidWalrusZombie

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It was pretty awesome. This year I actually upped the spices but only as a secondary addition. I have also added lactose and more pumpkin so it should have much more depth.