It’s the at time of year again. I’m thinking about making a play on a southern favorite, sweet potato casserole. Sweet potato, warm fall spices, pecans, and toasted marshmallows all packed into a beer that celebrates the fall season.
Brewed this 6 weeks ago and the bottles are disappearing fast. I love pumpkin beer and this may be my favorite. It has a velvety body and great flavor. I added just a hint of vanilla and a shake of spices into the bottling bucket. Gonna do another batch. Would like to have better head retention though. Maybe will add some Cara foam.
Definitely brewing this one this weekend. I like that it isn't overly spiced, which is what I am going for. Any tips or things you would change up? Was three lbs of pumpkin enough? Did you get the roasted flavor or no?
Have you have tried New Belgium Atomic Pumpkin? I enjoy it because like your beer, the pumpkin is subdued - you may like it. I was thinking about your recipe here and wondering how well I can adapt it to emulate Atomic with its' habenero spice and tincture by adding a super hot pepper tincture I made with Flatiron Pepper Co.'s "I can't feel my face" flakes...no kidding - this stuff is deadly. It has Carolina Reaper, Moruga Scorpion, Ghost and Habenero flakes in it. I think I would delete the maple syrup and up the cinnamon...then figure out the dosing - thoughts? Really liked the idea you had roasting the pumpkin first...looks like an awesome beer! Cheers!
Woah sounds intense! I am always a bit timid when it comes to using spicy peppers but I could see it working well with the spices here. I have a new pumpkin spice recipe I am working on. Stay tuned!
Hey! No I love this recipe, wouldn’t change a thing. But the maple does ferment out almost all the way so if you wanted to swap for brown sugar I could see that being quite good
Going to make this tomorrow. I don't have a keg and will be bottling instead. Would you still add the maple syrup to the boil or would you wait till bottling day?
I use percentages since everyone has different levels of efficiency. I recommend plugging your system into a brewing software and then start adding the fermentables until you hit the right percentages and OG. I think I had roughly 11lbs total grains plus pumpkin
Once again, late to the viewing, but crazy well done! I've always liked the Pumpkin Beer and really want to try one (maybe a 10L batch). Keep on keeping on!
Hey thanks. Try using a brewing software, there are some free ones out there. They allow you to add ingredients and it gives you percentages of each. Then just keep adding them until you hit the OG for your size batch. Good luck!
Should I worry if I got a lower gravity? I got 1.042 as the original gravity. I did a sparge so it might be that but this is now in the fermenter but I don't know if I should just get rid of it and start over. I know I can fix it with some DME but I'm a newbie and I don't want to mess it up. I just don't want to end up with a watery beer :(.
I would just see how it turns out. It’s not like you were majorly off so it shouldn’t be too watery. Maybe just not have the full body that my recipe has. Next time just add some DME like you said, little at time until you hit the OG you’re looking for
@@TheBruSho Wow, thank you for your response! I got all worried and got some more malts (since I ran out of the Maris Otter) and was planning on redoing it but I think I'll keep this one and brew a smaller batch being more careful with the amount of water I use and then compare each one. Thank you!
I'm in the process of updating the descriptions to include weights, but I went ahead and did it on this one for ya. But I recommend using a brewing software to determine the amounts for you, because you will probably have a different efficiency % and might need more or less. That's why I use percentages. Good luck!
I don’t use them since everyone has different levels of efficiency. You should be able to calculate the amounts very easily with a brewing software. But I realize now people are confused by this and I have been changing thing in upcoming videos
He says that he used 3lbs of pumpkin and that the pumpkin was 21% by weight of the fermentables. We should be able to figure it out based on that. Hope this helps
@@maliceinchains7254 thanks! I ended up doing similar calculations from the 4oz of maple syrup. But there must be a way to find the weights in recipes without pumpkin or syrup! Is there usually a grain weight to water volume ratio given?
