Me too! I've heard of way too many good beers lately. Pumpkin stout, malted milk stout (all I can imagine is whoppers candy and it makes me salivate) and I want to try an Irish red recipe I've been playing with. Only problem. All my bottles are filled and we don't drink fast enough!
So I actually just used an AHS Oatmeal Stout mini-mash kit and then added the pumpkin/spice. I will leave out their part of the recipe-but can substitute your favorite stout recipe-I figured oatmeal would add good mouthfeel.
I baked 29oz of canned 100% pumpkin under the broiler along with 1tsp pumpkin spice (cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, cloves) for 45 min until nicely caramelized. Then added to the mini mash for about an hour at 150-155 F. Sparged with more water than normal-the pumpkin/grain mix seemed to really soak in the water and didnt drain from the bag well, so wanted to make sure I extracted as much as I could.
60min boil with 1oz nugget, also added 1tsp cinnamon at 60, had read that cinnamon imparts some bitterness. 1tsp pumpkin spice 15min, 3tsp at 3minutes. Will let you know how this spice schedule worked, it was kind of a guessing game-didn't want to over spice, but also knew that it being a stout would need a decent amount to still have flavor. Tried to use multiple small additions to get both bitterness, flavor, and aroma from the spices.
Yeast-wlp004 Irish ale...buuuuut I had top cropped it from an Irish red, didn't think I got enough krausen/yeast so added an emergency us-05 packet at 30hrs.
OG 1.055, Just took a gravity reading- down to 1.014 after about 2 weeks. Pretty strong nose on the spices, decent bitterness, spice taste is there but not crazy. As far as a gravity sample pretty decent-always hard to tell at 2 weeks, warm and without carbonation. I like where its heading, will let you know the end results.
