pumpkin time!

It's that time of year again - Pumpkin Ale season!  

If you read the post before this one you know that Dooney ended up at the same pumpkin patch as 10 Barrel's brewer Bobby, to pick up some deliciousness for our pumpkin brew this weekend.  I began experimenting with the different ingredients the other night.  I essentially made a tea of everything to get a taste and smell of everything separated, and then threw it all into a single vessel to see what it was like all combined.  

 'Tea' made with the different additives going into the brew.

Everything mixed together - smelled so good!  Chunks are sweet orange peel.

We wanted to make this brew pretty heavy on the spice so that you'd get more than just pumpkin.  

The recipe is as follows:

Cinder'Ale-a Pumpkin Ale:

Pale 2 Row Malt

Munich Malt - 10L

Victory Malt

Wheat Malt

Chocolate Malt

Clover Honey

Cascade Hops

Citra Hops

1 cinnamon stick

1/2 tsp. allspice

1/8 tsp. ground ginger

1/4 tsp. nutmeg

1/4 tsp. clove

30% - Cinderella pumpkin

30% - Galeux D'Eysines pumpkin

17.5% - Triamble pumpkin

17.5% - Jarhdale pumpkin

5% - Delicata squash

We decided to mash and boil the pumpkin so we're hoping to extract as much pumpkin as we can get between the different brew stages.  

We'll let you know!