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Over the course of making pumpkin ales, almost all breweries have said they get the most success with using it in the mash. You get most of the flavors with less of the byproducts. Use rice hulls, mash out and sparge slowly and you'll be fine.

I put the rice hulls on the top of my grain so it goes in first to hit the bottom and prevent sticking. Once I got my grain wet I add my pumpkin and give it a good mix. I usually mix the pumpkin is hot so the loss of heat is less and the pumpkin is easy to mix in

A local brewery makes a fantastic pumpkin ale (Fort Garry) and they use nugget hops and use oak chips. Last year I used nugget and the chips with this recipe and had great results, very good. This year I'm doing pretty much everything the same but I'm out of S-05, and I had a some American Ale...

That's how I felt. Being able to not have to buy fruit, freeze it, have to deal with a messy secondary and trying to correct the right amount can be a pain. Honestly I was hoping for a heavy melon with a touch of strawberry, but the flavors I got were the opposite.

All I gotta say is wow. This beer is fantastic. These hops are the real deal. Huge strawberry flavor with a bit of melon after taste. Being a blonde is nice and light. I'm glad I bought a pound of these because this beer is entering the rotation

I brewed this finally after I tracked down some moteuka hops. The hefe was decent, I found it needed more of the limeade. I started putting a splash or two of the limeade in a glass and then topping up with beer and it made it really pop. Next time I would add a second jug of the limeade when I...

I transfered this to the keg and is now carbing. I didn't taste it, but soon as I pulled off the airlock on the secondary there was a huge sweet strawberry smell. Smelled amazing, I didn't get much melon. I used gelatin in the keg. Will posting tasting and picture results when in glass

It is best to do a secondary when adding fruit. There's not really a risk of infection when adding frozen fruit. The cold would kill any bacteria and your adding the fruit after fermentation so the alcohol from the beer is usually enough to prevent infection

Last beer of the keg. Beer was very good. I think any sleemans honey brown lover will enjoy this

How could I keg this without carbonating it? You need psi to push it out the line and soon as you connect it it'd going to start carbing. I suppose to could attach the air everytime I'm ready to drink but

What I don't understand is while draining my beer was very light in color like most blondes and remained quite light during the boil. Once I added most of my hops and whirlpool the color dropped heavily and now it's like an iced tea color. Anyone know why? The beer on the right is the hull melon...

Just finishing the boil as we speak. Again I made changes. 9lbs 2 row .5lbs crystal 10 .5lbs cara-pils .5lbs honey malt 152F @ 60mins .25oz Columbus (60mins) 1oz hull melon (10mins) 1oz hull melon (5mins) 1oz hull melon (1min whirlpool for 15mins) 1oz hull melon (dry hop 7 days) Wyeast...

I've had galaxy but I don't know how good of a match these two would be together. It's told that Nelson gives white wine fruitiness. I like you'd be better off single hopping. I would also add a bit of crystal and carapils to your grain bill

It's starting to warm up here again, I got a hull melon pale ale I'm brewing and then I'm gonna take a shot at my v 2.0. Like I said I'm going to do 4lbs of each and I decided to up the lactose to 1lb. I'm a lot more confident with my brewing setup and this should be a breeze now

I took your suggestions and I made a few changes myself. I didn't wanna have to buy more yeast but I'll use the 1272 in a couple other recipes. I have some Columbus kicking around but when I added it to beersmith, even .25oz was too much so this is what I'm gonna settle on: 9lbs 2 row .5lbs...

Drinking the beer as I speak. Nice color and the busicuit flavor comes threw with a sweeter after taste. It's diffinetly not as light as sleemans but turned out to be a nice ale

Drinking the beer as I speak. Nice color and the busicuit flavor comes threw with a sweeter after taste. It's diffinetly not as light as sleemans but turned out to be a nice ale

I got my large shipment of farmhouse hops in and now I'm going to work to make some recipes. The German hull melon hop sounds amazing. I built this recipe around it. I think a light blonde ale is the key. This is what I brewed: 9lbs 2-row pale malt .5lbs crystal 10 .5lbs cara-pils .5lbs honey...

I picked up some german mandarina bavaria hops. I think they would be a great fit for this. I'm not familiar with whirlpool though.

I was told by my lhbs that they are just different companies calling them something different. Same goes for cara-pils and dexterin