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Spotted Tongue Dia de la Muerta Pumpkin Ale

Spotted Tongue Dia de la Muerta Pumpkin Ale

Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer • All Grain • 6 gal

Stan

My traditional pumpkin beer for 2006. In honor of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration, this beer was brewed on Nov.1, 2006

November 2, 2006 am 12:53am

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Ingredients (All Grain6 gal)

  • 10 lbs American 2-row

    American 2-row

    Yields a slightly higher extract than Six Rox brewers Malt. Tends to give a smoother, less grainy flavored beer. Some brewers claim they can detect a significant difference in flavor. Lower protein and will yield a lower color than Six-Row Brewers Malt

  • 1 lbs German Dark Munich

    German Dark Munich

    Enhances body and aroma. Stout, schwarzbier, brown ale, dark and amber ales.

  • 0.5 lbs Belgian Aromatic

    Belgian Aromatic

    Imparts a big malt aroma. Use in brown ales, Belgian dubbels and tripels.

  • 1 lbs Oats Flaked

    Oats Flaked

    Belgian White Ale(wit), other specialty beers.

  • 1 lbs Light Brown Sugar

    Light Brown Sugar

    Imparts rich, sweet flavor. Use in Scottish ales, old ales and holiday beers.

  • 1 oz Vanguard - 5.1 AA% pellets; boiled 60 min

    Vanguard

    Still being tested and looked at by micro & craft breweries.

  • 0.5 oz Vanguard - 5.1 AA% pellets; boiled 30 min

    Vanguard

    Still being tested and looked at by micro & craft breweries.

  • 0.5 oz Vanguard - 5.1 AA% pellets; boiled 15 min

    Vanguard

    Still being tested and looked at by micro & craft breweries.

  • White Labs WLP530 Abbey Ale

    White Labs WLP530 Abbey Ale

    Used in two of the six Trappist breweries remaining in the world, this yeast produces the distinctive fruitiness and plum characteristics. Excellent yeast for high gravity beers, Belgian ales, dubbels and trippels.

Notes

Peeled, shredded and steamed most of the Halloween jack-o-lantern, and added to the mash, which was sitting at 130 protein rest. Had to do small decoction to get mash up to 150. Added 8 Mexican cinnamon sticks, thumb-sized piece of ginger, sliced, 1 tsp ground nutmeg, and 1/2 tsp ground cloves, 5 minutes before end of boil. Sugar was actually Mexican piloncillo sugar "cones".

Style (BJCP)

Category: 21 - Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

Subcategory: A - Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

Range for this Style
Original Gravity: 1.053 1.026 - 1.120
Terminal Gravity: 1.011 0.995 - 1.035
Color: 12.1 SRM 1 - 50
Alcohol: 5.6% ABV 2.5% - 14.5%
Bitterness: 30.0 IBU 0 - 100

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