Recent content by adetwiler

Thanks, BigEd. I was doing a Pumpkin Porter. I went to my LHBS and they said the exact same thing, so he helped with the conversion. I would tell you how it turned out, but it's fermenting now, obviously!

So there's no way to do a hoppy pumpkin? That's what I was interested in... I thought the cascade would be a nice flower for the pumpkin, and the hallertau/saaz would be nice with the spice at the end...

Awesome. Thanks a ton. I don't know Saaz so I'll give them a shot. What do you think about 1.5 oz of cascade for bittering? Do you think that will work out alright with the pumpkin and the honey malt? I'm really interested in a hop balance with the pumpkin profile...

My neighbor brewed a few years ago and gave me a similar recipe when I said I wanted to make a pumpkin beer. I tweaked it a bit (it was an IPA but that seemed like too much hop character for a pumpkin...)--dropped some hops, changed the hops, and added some malt. But I've never made my own...

Awesome, thanks everyone! Super helpful. Here's the recipe as it is: 3.3 pounds light liquid malt extract 3 pounds amber dry malt extract 1 pound dark dry malt extract So I'm thinking the conversion will look like: 4.5 pounds light malt grain 4 pounds amber grain (so base plus some crystal)...

So I've been reading up about converting extract recipes to partial mash. I have a book full of great recipes, but they're all extract and I prefer to brew all grain. Is it possible to make an all grain mash equivalent to what an extract recipe calls for? Also, I'm working with a pretty...