Mid-Pumpkin Roasting Question

[bellmtbbq]

I'm currently roasting my chunks o' pumpkin for a pumpkin coffee stout and they've been going for 30-40 minutes at 375 F and the top of the pumpkin chunks are getting shriveled and kind of roasted. I mean, I know that's what's supposed to happen, but I thought they were going to kind of disintegrate through cooking, not roast like potatoes. I'm alright right? I'm going to turn them in a few so the bottom goes to the top and vice versa.

 

[BrewinHooligan]

Just roast till it all gets soft then scrape the pulp from the skin and toss the skin out and the pulp in the mash. Hope you have some rice hulls! Even with a half pound of rice hulls my sparge was pretty slow.

 

[bellmtbbq]

I roasted for ninety minutes and mashed. I do the colander method of draining/sparging (5 L batches) so stuck sparges aren't a problem. Twenty minutes left in the boil with some EKG in there. Thanks all!

 

[Dr1nkBeer]

Just brewed some pumpkin ale my sparge went fine.. didnt bother with roasting this time though... I just used the libby's right out of the can.. one in the mash... one in the boil.. 60 oz. total.. threw in the spices with 5 min left to the boil...

I did have an issue when i went to drain my kettle into the primary... I recently purchased a bazooka screen and it seemed to have clogged up badly and i had to scrap away some hops and pumpkin from it to get the rest of the wort to flow.. it was a PITA for certain.. went well until the last two gal. or so.. didnt even slow down it just stopped.