Gluten Free Pumpkin Spice Ale

[jacko-45]

Brewed this over the weekend. The roasted sorghum had a real nice aroma to the partial mash. I did try to strain this and like I was warned, wouldn't flow through even a large strainer. Consistency of a McDonald's milk shake. Sitting in primary waiting...

 

[Lan]

Fired up a batch of this one a couple weeks ago, just racked into secondary and ended up losing quite a bit to the thick trub on the bottom (I poured everything into the primary and let it all to settle out a bit). What do you guys do to minimize this loss?

 

[jacko-45]

Fired up a batch of this one a couple weeks ago, just racked into secondary and ended up losing quite a bit to the thick trub on the bottom (I poured everything into the primary and let it all to settle out a bit). What do you guys do to minimize this loss?

I had same issue (I referred to the trub as a milkshake). I bottle 2 weekends ago and just tried one after 1 week in bottle. It was very light with a lot of residue at bottom of bottle. it had a fairly good pop when opening (used 4oz of prime sugar). The end result was a thin light beer with little pumpkin flavor. Not too bad but I wanted pumpkin. Not too sure what I did wrong. Gonna wait another week then try again

 

[Lan]

Yeah, from the samples I've had so far, the body may come out a little thin but a nice level of carbonation should broaden it out. A week isn't always long enough for the full carbonation to develop in my experience.

On the flavor so far, the pumpkin character itself is mild...sort of a slight sweet earthiness to it. The spices are still fairly assertive. Overall it does smell and taste like an Autumn brew...just wish I had more in the carboy to bottle!