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Mike's Pumpkin Ale 103

Mike's Pumpkin Ale 103

Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer • Extract • 5 gal

mikey2

Brewing 10/8/10

October 8, 2010 pm 04:38pm

5.0/5.0 1 rating

Ingredients (Extract5 gal)

  • 1 lbs Crystal Malt 20°L

    Crystal Malt 20°L

    Sweet, mild caramel flavor and a golden color. Use in light lagers and light ales.

  • .25 lbs Chocolate Malt; Breiss

    Chocolate Malt; Breiss

    Rich roasted coffee flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Chocolate Malt is used in all beer styles for color adjustment with minor or no flavor contribution. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout Beer. • The chocolate flavor is very complementary when used in higher percentages in Brown Ales, Porters, Stouts and other Dark Beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • 3 lbs CBW® Golden Light Powder (Dry Malt Extract); Briess

    CBW® Golden Light Powder (Dry Malt Extract); Briess

    Malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • CBW® Golden Light (Powder) is a dry, 100% pure malted barley extract made from 100% Briess malts and water. • CBW® Golden Light can be used in the production of all extract beer styles and to adjust the color, flavor and gravity of all grain beers. • Advantages of using extract in a brewhouse include: o Save time. o Increase capacity/boost productivity. o Extends the brew size by adding malt solids to the wort. o Boost gravity. o Adjust color. o Improve body and head retention. • Briess Malt & Ingredients Company is the only vertically integrated malting company in North America. That means we make our pure malt extracts from our own malt so you are assured of receiving only the fullest flavored, freshest, pure malt extracts for top brewhouse performance. • All styles of extract beer, and to adjust the color, flavor and gravity of all grain beers.

  • 2 lbs Dry Light Extract

    Dry Light Extract

    White color, mild flavor. Will produce lagers and Pilseners and can also be used to produce darker beers when used in conjunction with colored malts. Made of pale malt.

  • .15 oz Chinook - 12.0 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Chinook

    Spicy, Medium to Heavy.Very strong bittering ability used in all American ales and lagers. Aroma is very floral.

  • 3 lb Pumpkin (canned) - In Boil (omitted from calculations)

    Pumpkin (canned)

    Mild earth spicy flavor. Pumpkins are fruits from the gourd family.

  • Munton-Fison Active Brewing Yeast

    Munton-Fison Active Brewing Yeast

    Some fruity esters, attenuative, fair to good reputation.

Notes

Add to brew pot 2.8 oz dextrose, and 3 oz malto-dextrene. Add 1 1/2 tsp Cinnamon, 3/4 tsp Nutmeg, 1/4 tsp Clove, 1/2 tsp Ginger, and 1/2 madagascar vanilla bean last 2 min of boil. Oxigenate well and use 15 gm Coopers Dry Ale Yeast.

Style (BJCP)

Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

Subcategory: A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.048 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.010 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 15.6 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 5.0% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 9.2 IBU 0 - 100

Discussion

mikey2

was a big hit at brew festival

2011-01-06 6:17pm

I had many comments that this was the best Pumpkin Ale at the fest (there were several micro's and a couple of other home brews present). The "secret" is to keep the IBUs low enough for the pumpkin and spices to shine through without the hop bitterness interferring.

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