Reno eNVy,
It's almost 12:30 midnight, and I've just read this entire thread - while copying and pasting bits and pieces into a Word document so I could keep track of any changes or other advice.
It's wonderful that you have continued to support this thread for so long.
This will be my first all-grain brew, and I will be doing BIAB. I plan to steep the baked pumpkin while heating up the water as Brewmaster12 did.
I also plan to No-Chill, so I imagine that the hop schedule will be different. I have a chart saved that was posted by The Pol some time ago that gives the schedule adjustments for no-chilling.
I was wondering if you, or anyone else, has tried omitting the spice from the boil but adding it to the bottling bucket in the form of a "Pumpkin Vodka". I saw a couple posts in this thread about adding some of the spice to secondary.
Prior to discovering the HBT Forum, I was searching on Morebeer's Forum for pumpkin recipes and came upon the following thread:
http://forums.morebeer.com/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=23534&p=231385&hilit=+pumpkin+vodka+#p231385
If you scroll down to the 6th post, Greg Muller describes his technique for obtaining the "spice" flavor that makes us think we're drinking pumpkin pie. I apologize for posting the quotation from that, but some might find it helpful:
I'm going to check my LHBS tomorrow to see if he has the ingredients. I'm excited about giving this a try.
Thanks again,
Keith