Just grab a brown ale recipe that you like and rack to secondary with 2 vanilla beans
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/vanilla-coffee-porter-196103/
https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f37/vanilla-bean-addition-26550/
some references
Just Libby s canned and honestly i used a little extra cause they didn't have the big cans so i had to use 4 little one's making for a little more pumpkin, and when i poured them out 2 were different shades of orange which was interesting, maybe they had a little more sugar in them ?
I just brewed a pumpkin beer and when i cooked my pumpkin i split it up between 2 pie pans by the time i had the water boiling they were pretty cool so unless you just throw them in out of the oven, I don't think it will effect your mash temp to much, and its not really reason to put them in...
Brewed this today but i ended up with a OG of almost 1.080
Tasted great, we will see in a few weeks
edit I put almost double the molasses in so this one's gonna have some punch lol