Punkin Ale Clone Concept

[aptloft]

I've compiled the following ingredients bill/recipe and welcoming any tweaks or suggestions:

4 lbs 12.0 oz Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM)
1 lbs Special Roast (50.0 SRM)
9.6 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 60L (60.0 SRM)
6.4 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt - 80L (80.0 SRM)
58.00 oz Libby's Pumpkin (Bake ~ 30min - Mash 40 min)
3 lbs Light Dry Extract (8.0 SRM)
1.0 oz Hallertauer [4.8%] - Boil 45 min
1.50 tbsp Pumpkin Pie Spice - Boil 15 min
1.0 oz Hallertauer [4.8%] - Boil 5 min
1 pkgs American Ale (Wyeast Labs #1056)
1 lbs Brown Sugar, Light (8.0 SRM) (Flameout)

 

[Veronis]

Maybe you already brewed this. I did the all grain Punkin' Ale (https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f76/punkin-ale-145060/) recently and I tossed in 1.5 tbsp of McCormick Pumpkin Pie spice at 5 minutes (you're doing 15), and it finished pretty light on the spice - it faded during the end of primary and into secondary. It was barely noticeable until it came back out a bit after three weeks bottle conditioning. Now it's just a light note of spice. It's a good beer, but I would add a little more spice if I did it again. I recall DFH Punkin being spicier than mine - to be fair, though, I also recall people saying the original recipe was too spicy for them. Your mileage may vary.

Give it a taste on bottling day. If it doesn't taste like a lot of spice, it's probably not going to finish much heavier (at least, mine didn't). What I would have done, had I known ahead of time:
Boil 1.5 cups water for a few minutes, let cool to 180, add 1/2 to 1 tsp pumpkin pie spice (tsp, not tbsp - this spice addition isn't going to get scrubbed by boiling + fermentation), steep for 10 minutes. Cool further. Dump in bottling bucket, rack your beer on top, stir gently, but don't add priming sugar yet. Taste. Repeat small boil and add more spice if you want. Once you have the spice level you want, add the priming sugar, stir 3 mins etc., bottle.

I wouldn't personally ferment it above 68ish, but it's your call. I did mine (with the same yeast) at 65-68 and the beer came out very clean.