Beer Style: Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer
(21B)
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5 US gallons
A very smooth Pumpkin Ale with mild undertones and subtle Hops finish. I have made this beer 5 times, tweaking it a bit each time.. and now it is awesome!
Original Gravity: 1.060
Final Gravity: 1.018
Alcohol by Vol: 5.5%
Recipe Type: partial mash
Yield: 5.00 US Gallons
Cut up your pumpkin by taking out the "guts and seeds" and slicing off the shell. Place the meat of the pumpkin on baking sheets and bake at 400 degrees for 1 hour. Once baked, run the pumpkin through a food processor or blender.
Put the puree into a bowl and add the sugars, vanilla, and 1 tbs of the Spice Mix.
Place this puree in a Muslin Bag and set aside. From this point on we will call this the "pumpkin mix".
#1: Bring 2.5 gallons of water to 150 - 160 degrees
#2: place grains in a muslin bag and put grains in water
#3: steep grains for 30 minutes
#4: remove wort from heat and add LME
#5 return to heat and bring to a boil
#6 once there is a rolling boil start the boil clock (60 min)
Boil:
60 min - 0,5 oz Tettnanger Hops
15 min - Whirlfloc or Irish Moss
8 min - Pumpkin mix in Muslin Bag
2 min - 0.5 oz Tettnanger Hops
#7 Cool the wort to below 80 degrees in an ice bath or with wort chiller
#8 Fill your fermenter with 2.5 gallons of cold water.
#9 Add the wort to the fermentor
#10 Add enough water to your fermentor to make 5 gallons.
#11 take Specific gravity -- should be between 1.060 and 1.066
#12 pitch yeast
#13 agitate the wort by stirring vigorously
#14 cap the fermentor and place your lock.
#15 place in a temp controlled environment to maintain a range of 66 - 74
#16 Rack at 7 days
#17 at day 14 bottle or keg.
Source: Jeremiah Ahrens -- Atoka Brewery