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Edmonton, Canada

Now, if anyone can find this recipe, I'd be impressed. Most of us would also end up with alot to drink!!! Has anyone heard of a pumpkin brew before?

8/6/2002 12:25:36 PM

Billerica,Massachusetts

someone bought me a bottle of it a few years ago, it's still in the back of the fridge!

8/6/2002 12:52:07 PM

Western Pa.

Crooked River Brewing, Cleveland Ohio, makes a nice pumpkin Ale! There are others around also! I've got a recipe, I'll just have to look it up.

8/6/2002 2:31:22 PM

Edmonton, Canada

That'd be great Kilr, I'd love to try cooking up a brew!

8/6/2002 4:09:26 PM

Western Pa.

Here it is:

7# amber malt extract 1 teas. cinnamon
2 gallons boiling water 1/2 teas. ginger
1 oz. bittering hops 1/4 teas. nutmeg
1/2 teas. Irish moss 7 grams ale yeast
4# pumpkin in 1# cubes 1 cup water
corn sugar

1. Dissolve malt in boiling water. Stir until it reboils.
2. Add bittering hops and boil for 1 hour.
3. After 40 minutes, add Irish moss
4. After 55 minutes, add pumpkin and spices
5. Combine ale yeast and water. Set aside.
6. Transfer pumpkin to a fermenter. Cool the liquid and strain, to remove hops. Fill fermenter to 5 gal. with boiled, cool water.
7. When temp. falls below 75 degrees(F), stir in dissolved yeast Starting gravity(use hydrometer) is 1.045-1.048
8.When fermenting stops rack into a carboy, straining out pumpkin, take care not to stir up sediment.
9, Rack the beer into clean bottles when gravity reaches 1.015 to 1.012.
10. To each bottle add 1 teas. corn sugar

Enjoy! ( Makes 5 gallons)

8/7/2002 8:31:54 AM

Western Pa.

That's 4# of pumpkin in 1 INCH cubes, not 1# cubes!

8/7/2002 2:16:34 PM

Hobbiton New Zealand

I can now say that it makes great beer just need to learn to say stop a bit sooner next time I drink it.

3/9/2003 3:08:01 PM