I'm going to make my favorite porter this weekend, the Captured by Porches clone from BYO. I'd like to try experimenting more and thought of turning this into a pumpkin porter. My issue is I want both, I only want to mash once, and I only want 2.5 gal of regular porter and 2.5 gal of my pumpkin porter experiment in case it sucks and I have to toos the batch.
So I thought of splitting the batch after primary so that the pumpkin porter could secondary on pumpkin and the spices. I don't need conversion from the pumpkin so I figured I could get away with it not being in the mash.
Any thoughts? Will the pumpkin porter pick up enough spice and pumpkin flavor from sitting in the secondary? I could also bottle / keg with spice too to increase flavor.
So I thought of splitting the batch after primary so that the pumpkin porter could secondary on pumpkin and the spices. I don't need conversion from the pumpkin so I figured I could get away with it not being in the mash.
Any thoughts? Will the pumpkin porter pick up enough spice and pumpkin flavor from sitting in the secondary? I could also bottle / keg with spice too to increase flavor.