So I have had my pumpkin ale carbing since Saturday and I have poured a couple samples to see where the beer is in aroma and taste. However, no matter how hard i pour the beer, there is no head on the beer. Listed below is my recipe: 7.5 lbs. 2-row 2.5 lbs. German Munich Malt .5 lbs. Caramel 80 .25 lbs. Caramel 60 Mashed in at 152 F for 60 minutes US-05 and fermented at 65 F What could be the problem?
Starting gravity? Final gravity? What adjuncts did you put into the beer? You called it a pumpkin ale, but nothing about that recipe says pumpkin.
Sorry, 1 teaspoon of pumpkin spice plus other individual spices that added up to about 2 teaspoons in total. By other spices i mean the pumpkin pie spices, i just left one out that is generally associated with pumpkin spice. OG 1.054 and I don't remember the SG, (I didn't write it down, shame on me).
To amplify a little... CO2 makes foam. Proteins retain foam. You can't retain foam that hasn't been made.
