Saxomophone
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- Recipe Type
- All Grain
- Yeast
- Nottingham
- Yeast Starter
- no
- Batch Size (Gallons)
- 5
- Original Gravity
- 1.071
- Final Gravity
- 1.020
- Boiling Time (Minutes)
- 60
- Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp)
- 18 days 60deg
- Tasting Notes
- Sweet and creamy with good pumpkin taste and nice amount of spice
I know it is getting late for a pumpkin brew, but this turned out really well so I thought I would post it.
6 lb 2-Row
4 lb Wheat Malt
.5 lb Crystal 40
.5 lb Honey Malt
1 oz Cascade 60 minutes
1 lb Lactose 15 minutes
About 4 lb butternut squash (holds pumpkin kind of flavor better than pumpkin so I'm told) sprinkled with brown sugar and baked at about 400 deg till soft and starts to brown.
Mash at 150 degrees for 1 hour with grains and pumpkin. I added some rice hulls to help the sparge. (getting the temp right can be tricky because of the squash)
Add 1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice to fermentor (in 1/2 cup boiling water) to fermentor after 1 week.
Bottled a little over 4 gallons with 3.6 oz priming sugar. I lost a bit to blow-off.
This is just getting ready and tastes great! Can taste the pumpkin flavor and the spices are there but not overwhelming. The lactose adds a nice sweet creaminess like a pumpkin pie.
When I bottled it, I added the last 1/2 gallon to 1/2 gallon of a Tripel that needed to be bottled. I'm curious to see how that turns out.
6 lb 2-Row
4 lb Wheat Malt
.5 lb Crystal 40
.5 lb Honey Malt
1 oz Cascade 60 minutes
1 lb Lactose 15 minutes
About 4 lb butternut squash (holds pumpkin kind of flavor better than pumpkin so I'm told) sprinkled with brown sugar and baked at about 400 deg till soft and starts to brown.
Mash at 150 degrees for 1 hour with grains and pumpkin. I added some rice hulls to help the sparge. (getting the temp right can be tricky because of the squash)
Add 1 tsp Pumpkin Pie Spice to fermentor (in 1/2 cup boiling water) to fermentor after 1 week.
Bottled a little over 4 gallons with 3.6 oz priming sugar. I lost a bit to blow-off.
This is just getting ready and tastes great! Can taste the pumpkin flavor and the spices are there but not overwhelming. The lactose adds a nice sweet creaminess like a pumpkin pie.
When I bottled it, I added the last 1/2 gallon to 1/2 gallon of a Tripel that needed to be bottled. I'm curious to see how that turns out.