How to get a lot of pumpkin flavor?

[drathbone]

Is the key simply the pumpkin spices or using loads of pumpkin puree?

I was thinking about doing a variation of Edworts Apfelwein and loading it up with a several cans of pureed pumpkin with some pumpkin pie spice, using the same yeast. I thought perhaps replacing a gallon or two of the batch by boiling the pumpkin in water with brown sugar.

Thoughts?

 

[jtp137]

http://brulosophy.com/2015/10/05/it...umpkin-make-a-difference-exbeeriment-results/

 

[drathbone]

Good read. Thank you for that. On another note, I would want my pumpkin spice wine to have an orange color to it, so presumably the pumpkin would still serve its purpose for coloring and give way more to the illusion of pumpkin (since taste is influenced by all senses!)

In the link the pumpkin beer appeared to have a richer orange color. Although I'm not sure how much the style of the beer impacted that since I'd essentially be using juice and water.