How to make a Pumpkin Ale

Sorry but its so easy:

All Grain: pale malt, crystal 60 neutral hop start of boil - julliened pumpkin in the mash for 60 min, allspice & cinnamon added at 15 min, 0 min

Extract: light extract, crystal 60- skip pumpkin hop start of boil, allspice & cinnamon added at 15 min, 0 min

English ale yeast

There are more complicated ways of making this, but ya, its that simple.

Thanks pumpkin ale guru! Just wish you'd show up more than once a year. Just kidding, not sure the point of this post. Mine are more complex than yours listed but I guess I have the agree it's not as hard as many make it out to be.

Rev

shoreman said:

Sorry but its so easy:

All Grain: pale malt, crystal 60 neutral hop start of boil - julliened pumpkin in the mash for 60 min, allspice & cinnamon added at 15 min, 0 min

Extract: light extract, crystal 60- skip pumpkin hop start of boil, allspice & cinnamon added at 15 min, 0 min

English ale yeast

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And just think, if you had come down from the moutain a month ago, someone could have brewed this in time for it to be relevent!

Rev2010 said:

Thanks pumpkin ale guru! Just wish you'd show up more than once a year. Just kidding, not sure the point of this post. Mine are more complex than yours listed but I guess I have the agree it's not as hard as many make it out to be.

Rev

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No hard feelings just trying to post the simplicity of the beer - I make it every year - I got the recipe from one of the best brewers in the northeast and its so simple just spreading the simple.

MrManifesto said:

And just think, if you had come down from the moutain a month ago, someone could have brewed this in time for it to be relevent!

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I'm not Jesus man, just a homebrewer.

And yes this beer can still be brewed and ready for thanksgiving.

I think the devil is in the details. How MUCH pumpkin? How MUCH allspice/cinnamon? I've seen recipes all over the board on quantity/lbs of pumpkin in a 5gal batch, and one surely wouldn't want to go overboard on the allspice. Since you brew this yearly, do you have some guidelines from experience?

negativereaction said:

I think the devil is in the details. How MUCH pumpkin? How MUCH allspice/cinnamon? I've seen recipes all over the board on quantity/lbs of pumpkin in a 5gal batch, and one surely wouldn't want to go overboard on the allspice. Since you brew this yearly, do you have some guidelines from experience?

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1tbsp cinnamon 15 min
1tbsp allspice 15 min
2-5 lbs pumpkin is fine - you don't get any flavor from it anyways maybe some color

I always check my spice level before kegging or bottling - I added a little more this year

I wasn't trying to sound sarcastic in this post just simplify it and it turns out great.