Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

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Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:25 pm

Hi all

So today I had a day off so I thought I'd brew my pumpkin ale.

This is solely my recipe so please criticise where appropriate

(By the way I've been drinking an old English ale that I brewed a few weeks ago so apologies for that)

First I cup my pumpkin n half and cleaned out the slime and seeds
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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:26 pm

Then roasted en !!

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:28 pm

While they were in the oven I prepared my grains

I have 200g of dark crystal malt
150g of cara red
And 4kg of pale malt

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:35 pm

66dgec the pumpkin was added

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:36 pm

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:40 pm

After my hop additions which were
5g magnum
30g at 30 mins mosaic
I added 1 cinnamon stick, 2 crushed cloves and 1 inch of vanilla at flame out

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:43 pm

Hop spider is excellent
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Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:45 pm

After cooling etc I took a gravity reading then pitched my US05 yeast into the carboy

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by Wazza » Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:47 pm

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by chefgage » Wed Sep 27, 2017 8:36 am

Looking good. The last time i did a pumkin ale i put the pumkin in the boil but this had mixed results. Might have to grab a few haloween pumkins and have another go

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by ash_a » Thu Oct 19, 2017 8:49 am

Looks interesting.

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by chefgage » Thu Oct 19, 2017 9:55 am

I need to give a pumpkin ale a go. Plenty of pumpkins in the shops at the moment :)

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by fego » Fri Oct 20, 2017 11:20 pm

Go Bro...

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Re: Pumpkin ale (grainfather)

Post by WalesAles » Sat Oct 21, 2017 4:09 am

Wazza,
Why roast the Pumpkin?
Can`t you put it in raw?
How many Lts did you Brew?

WA

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