time for a pumpkin ale!

[mendozer]

Thinking of doing this soon:

Hoo-Hoo Pumpkin Ale
Christmas/Winter Specialty Spice Beer


Type: All Grain
Date: 10/6/2012
Batch Size: 5.00 gal

Ingredients

Amount Item Type % or IBU
1.25 lb Rice Hulls (0.0 SRM) Adjunct 8.20 %
5.00 lb Pale Malt (2 Row) US (2.0 SRM) Grain 32.79 %
4.00 lb Pumpkin (0.0 SRM) Grain 26.23 %
2.00 lb Caramel Malt - 40L (Briess) (40.0 SRM) Grain 13.11 %
2.00 lb Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) Grain 13.11 %
1.00 lb Brown Sugar, Light (8.0 SRM) Sugar 6.56 %
0.45 oz Magnum [14.00 %] (60 min) Hops 18.4 IBU
0.13 tsp cloves (Secondary 5.0 min) Misc
0.25 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min) Misc
0.25 tsp Nutmeg, ground (Secondary 5.0 min) Misc
0.25 tsp cloves (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
0.50 tsp Nutmeg, ground (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
0.50 tsp cinnamon, ground (Secondary 5.0 min) Misc
1.00 tsp Ginger Root (Boil 12.0 min) Misc
1.00 tsp cinnamon, ground (Boil 5.0 min) Misc
2.00 items vanilla bean (Secondary 5.0 min) Misc
1 Pkgs London ESB Ale (Wyeast Labs #1968) Yeast-Ale



Beer Profile

Est Original Gravity: 1.078 SG
Measured Original Gravity: 1.010 SG
Est Final Gravity: 1.023 SG Measured Final Gravity: 1.005 SG
Estimated Alcohol by Vol: 7.23 % Actual Alcohol by Vol: 0.65 %
Bitterness: 18.4 IBU Calories: 43 cal/pint
Est Color: 12.9 SRM Color: Color

*EDIT: also going to add 1 lb pumpkin to boil and 1lb of baked, caramelized pumpkin to primary. Elysian adds pumpkin to all three of these steps*


thoughts?

 

[mendozer]

adjusted the pumpkin and hops a bit. I went with mashing the pumpkin, taking almost all of it into the boil as well. then tossing the nylon bag with pumpkin into my primary. I'll add spices into the secondary (on top of the little bit in the boil).

i undershot gravity big time 1.048. Added LME to bring it up to 1.060. idk how to get pumpkin's SG from this

 

[tom_hampton]

Pumpkin is 90% water. So 4 lbs of flesh is only 0.4 lbs starch.

 

[mendozer]

i usually add amylase enzyme to my fermenter. would it have been prudent to do so to the mash this time? or would it not matter?