pumpkin pie extract for pumkin beer.

[thisisbeer]

I know it's a little early but I just found a couple of bottles lying around from my last pumpkin beer. I was trying to think of a way to get more of a pumkin pie flavor without making a heavily spiced beer. I thought about using a pumpkin pie liquid extract. A quick Google search came up empty. I found some extracts but nobody using them for beer. Has anybody tried this out?

 

[IslandLizard]

I have the feeling those "pie" extracts are gonna give you the spice, not the pumpkin.

I used 5 cans (75oz total) of puree in the mash and after 6 weeks in the keg the beer finally showed some detectable pumpkin flavor. I even caramelized the puree in the oven for 2 hours. It became a crusty deposit I re-dissolved. Next time I'll use 8 cans, and no roasting.

I had some New Belgium Pumpkin Ale (from a tap) and it has become my benchmark. The only pumpkin ale where you can tastes actual pumpkin, not just spice.

 

[thisisbeer]

It's not necessarily the pumkin I'm looking for as I do the same as you with roasting a ton of pumpkin. But i guess I'm looking for something that combines together like pumpkin pie. Something that blends in the beer if that makes sense. Most of the spiced beers I have tried I can only explain by saying they feel like I'm washing down spices rather than tasting them in the beer. The don't taste like they are apart of the beer. If that makes any sense....

I guess there just to unbalanced.

 

[IslandLizard]

I'm not a big spiced beer fan for that reason. I think you're right, they're disjointed, unbalanced, mostly over the top on spice. Now a good juniper ale however...

Southern Tier's 2XMas (tap) was the most disgusting spiced ale I ever had, pure medicinal. But Great Lakes Christmas Ale is great!

 

[Speedwell]

Post Road (Brooklyn) is the only other one that I've had that is pumpkin & spice, as opposed to most that are SPICE + pumpkin.