Couple of Questions Regarding Winter Ale

[Brew_4iT]

That sounds awesome! I would love to try some homebrew.

Quite a pipeline you got going on. I just have a pumpkin ale, strawberry blonde, braggot, and summer ale with citra dryhopped kegged.

My pumpkin ale is actually a variety of squashes, butternut, spaghetti, accorn, and pumpkin puree. I boiled half of the squashes till it was tender because I heard the starches will be able to break down and when mashed with grain would help the conversion of the sugars. The other half I roasted with some maple sugar sprinkled on it, hopefully to get a nutty flavor from.

Strawberry blonde will be done soon, first fruit dryhopping I've done so not too sure how good it will come out.

You can try a few bottles from either batch if you like, I just don't think I'll be able to get a nicely conditioned winter ale going in time this year... Still haven't found the time to brew my octoberfest ale yet.. grrrr. Hate how behind I've gotten...

 

[todd49401]

Wow- it sounds like your pumpkin ale is much more advanced than mine! I just used pumpkin spice in mine at flameout lol. I actually have two batches of pumpkin ale- one in primary and one in secondary...one is super spiced and the other is toned down. I kegged the same recipe for my wedding last year and it was a huge hit...didn't even get to drink any because we had a keg of Guinness and I drank that the whole night.

Sounds like you have some nice ones in the pipeline. I would love to try your pumpkin ale and if you could spare a strawberry blonde that would be nice.

I have the Saison kegged- first time I ever dry hopped...turned out ok but maybe not dry enough. I used Saison Dupont dregs for the yeast. I have a nice bourbon barrel imperial stout in secondary. It's been aging two months so far, will try not to touch it until at least December.