Pumpkin Beer recipe

Try this: https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/saint-arnold-pumpkinator-clone
from this thread: http://www.beeradvocate.com/communi...ator-clone-recipe-anyone.255709/#post-3727932
Doing a further search of this forum may get you some other recipes; I didn't look at all of the threads.

 

wrote a story with a bunch of recipes for the Sept '14 BYO, but doesn't look like it's available online...but here is one from Zymurgy which is good iirc: http://www.homebrewersassociation.org/how-to-brew/designing-perfect-pumpkin-beer-recipe/
There are a lot of ways to go, from ambers through black ales, Dick Cantwell who was with Elysian was pretty awesome to talk to about various starting points, from hefes to sour beers.
Anyway, start by designing your base beer, then deciding if you're going to use real pumpkins or cans, then if you're going to roast the puree or not, when to add the pumpkin...mash, boil or fermenter or all three. Then it's onto spices, what type of spices you want to include, cinnamon, clove, ginger, vanilla, allspice, etc... I find it helpful to find a commercial beer I like the spice level, then talk to the brewery to see what they're doing, what spices and to see if you can extract about how much they use per barrel.
A lot of fun in designing & executing a pumpkin beer.

 

If you're looking for a good, straight up pumpkin ale, I'd check out the Dogfish Punkin' Ale clone here: https://www.brewtoad.com/recipes/dogfish-head-punkin-clone-1

Brewed something similar to this last fall and it turned out great. I personally enjoy spice character, so I doubled the amount of spices (3 tbsp) at flameout. Added 2 vanilla beans soaked in bourbon to secondary as well.

One thing I'd recommend though is rice hulls (0.5-1 lb) added to the mash tun if you add a lot of baked pumpkin. I kept getting a stuck sparge with mine, and had to keep stirring up the mash/lautering which was a pain in the ass.

 

Since I have some 3711 slurry, I was thinking of using this recipe. The cloves scare me though.

https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/homebrew-recipe/mashing-pumpkins-spiced-saison/

 

using actual pumpkin is mostly a headache imo. no rice hulls needed if you omit the pumpkin. and i know from experience you wont miss it either.

my pumpkin beer is always a variation of an Oktoberfest with the addition of pumpkin pie spice. keep the bittering on the low end and add more spice than you think you need. then lager for a good 3 or 4 weeks. experiment with the spice by adding it to a single serving and scaling. it is hard to use too much, but certainly possible. different spice blends will change the character obviously, but i can't say that i have ever used a bad blend over the course of 20 years or so. Penzey's is my current favorite.

i know that is not a recipe, but my pumpkin beers have been well received. i don't get it either, give the people what they want.
Cheers.

 

I just bought the ingredients for a partial recipe I'll be doing today. My recipe is:

6lbs extra light DME
2lbs wheat DME
1lb crystal 60 steeped @155
1lb biscuit steeped @155
2lbs brown sugar @15

1oz magnum @60
1oz hallertau @10

1 vanilla bean @ 5

2 cans of pumpkin pie mix with a half cup brown sugar roasted in oven(doing it right now, smells tasty!) added @15

BRY-97

secondary for a week with 1 tbs pumpkin pie spices
another tbs spice added to priming sugar and boiled, to be added to bottling bucket.

 

^^^ Just finished this, OG 1.086.

 

I brewed an "Imperial" version today. It has Chimay yeast and a bit of molasses in it, will be getting 2lbs of homemade D-180 in another day. Secondary with 16oz of Goslings rum.

OG is 1.096!


I should be good on pumpkin beers for the fall now!

 

Shit, my wife opened the window to the ferment room a few days ago and forgot to close it. And tell me It was HOT in there, 78F at 0900 this morning! I closed the window and took and tasted samples. They were both lower than I had hoped, 1.010 and 1.012. No sweetness, I wanted sweetness But, the silver lining is that there wasn't any harsh alcohol to them. The big one was a banana bomb though. At least they will be in bottles soon......