JDWebb
Well-Known Member
Working on putting this together now. Just finished roasting 26 pounds of sugar pumpkins, sweet potatoes and kobucha. Here's the plan:
Ingredients:
Mesquite honey (to reach SG 1.135)
26 pounds pumpkin & kabocha (weighed together, may be less after roasting)
4 pounds sweet potatoes
64 oz Vermont Maple Syrup (added post-fermentation, before secondary)
Pumpkin pie spice (post-fermentation, added in spice bag in secondary)
6 gallons Trader Joes Fresh Pressed apple juice (SG: 1.045-50)
16g D21 yeast
10g yeast nutrient (5g at end of lag, 5g at 1/3rd break)
Method:
Day 1:
Roast pumpkin & kabocha squash and sweet potato with spices and drizzle of honey & Grand Mariner
Remove skin, cool to room temperature
Pour 5 gallons apple juice into fermenter
Add the fruit bag with roasted vegies
Add honey to SG 1.135
Top with apple juice to 6 gallons and cool to 55ºf
Lallzyme EX-V for 24 hours per manufacturers instructions
Day 2:
Raise temperature of must to 70ºf
Rehydrate yeast with Go-Ferm (per manufacturers instructions)
Aerate must for 1 min with aerator
Rehydrate with energizer and pitch yeast & stir well
Cover with sanitized cloth and wait until lag phase ends
Add 5g yeast nutrient diluted in 100ml h2o
At least twice daily: Stir well & aerate with stone for 1 min
Cover with airlock on day 5
Stir & aerate twice daily until 1/3 break at SG 1.093
Add 5g yeast nutrient at 1.093
Twice daily: Continue to stir gently so as not to oxygenate
Add ½ gallon Vermont maple syrup to taste prior to racking
Prepare spice bag with 1 ½ tsp pumpkin spice & rack when bubbles appear to be at 1-2 bpm
Taste daily until spice reaches a pleasant level, pull bag
Cool must to 60º and wait for clearing
Rack again in 4 weeks
Bulk age in cool place until 11-2016
Ingredients:
Mesquite honey (to reach SG 1.135)
26 pounds pumpkin & kabocha (weighed together, may be less after roasting)
4 pounds sweet potatoes
64 oz Vermont Maple Syrup (added post-fermentation, before secondary)
Pumpkin pie spice (post-fermentation, added in spice bag in secondary)
6 gallons Trader Joes Fresh Pressed apple juice (SG: 1.045-50)
16g D21 yeast
10g yeast nutrient (5g at end of lag, 5g at 1/3rd break)
Method:
Day 1:
Roast pumpkin & kabocha squash and sweet potato with spices and drizzle of honey & Grand Mariner
Remove skin, cool to room temperature
Pour 5 gallons apple juice into fermenter
Add the fruit bag with roasted vegies
Add honey to SG 1.135
Top with apple juice to 6 gallons and cool to 55ºf
Lallzyme EX-V for 24 hours per manufacturers instructions
Day 2:
Raise temperature of must to 70ºf
Rehydrate yeast with Go-Ferm (per manufacturers instructions)
Aerate must for 1 min with aerator
Rehydrate with energizer and pitch yeast & stir well
Cover with sanitized cloth and wait until lag phase ends
Add 5g yeast nutrient diluted in 100ml h2o
At least twice daily: Stir well & aerate with stone for 1 min
Cover with airlock on day 5
Stir & aerate twice daily until 1/3 break at SG 1.093
Add 5g yeast nutrient at 1.093
Twice daily: Continue to stir gently so as not to oxygenate
Add ½ gallon Vermont maple syrup to taste prior to racking
Prepare spice bag with 1 ½ tsp pumpkin spice & rack when bubbles appear to be at 1-2 bpm
Taste daily until spice reaches a pleasant level, pull bag
Cool must to 60º and wait for clearing
Rack again in 4 weeks
Bulk age in cool place until 11-2016