Will-o'-Wisp Pumpkin Ale
Brewed: 09/19/2021 Kegged: 09/27/2020
The SheppyBrew Beer Model (aka my wife), is really a fan of pumpkin ales. In fact, the past couple of years, her whole GABF strategy was to visit breweries with pumpkin beers to try. Every year the SheppyBrew Brew Master tells himself that he should brew a pumpkin beer, but every year just runs out of Autumn time brewing other things. Finally, in 2014, he decided to finally give it a try.
It took him a fair amount of time to figure out what he wanted the base beer to be. Eventually, he decided a basic Brown Ale would be the best. The recipe uses mostly rich English malts and a higher than usual mash temperature to add a bit of perceived sweetness, balanced up just a bit with bitterness.
Canned pumpkin is grilled and then added to the mash. This should provide some fermentable sugars, but the Brew Master was unable to determine how much and so left that off the recipe. The grains themselves should bring this to a 5% AVB beer. We will have to see how much more the pumpkin adds.
If everything goes as planned, this beer should be ready to drink sometime around mid-October.
| Will-o'-Wisp Pumpkin Ale --- Batch 7 (297) |
| Style |
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Autumn Seasonal Beer |
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Batch Size |
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6.00 gal |
| Type |
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All Grain |
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Boil Size |
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7.12 gal |
| Brewhouse Efficiency |
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68.00 |
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Boil Time |
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60 minutes | Recipe Characteristics
| Recipe Gravity |
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1.053 SG |
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Estimated FG |
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1.013 SG |
| Recipe Bitterness |
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25.9 IBUs (Rager) |
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Alcohol by Volume |
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5.2 % |
| BU : GU |
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0.489 |
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| Recipe Color |
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18.4 SRM |
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| Ingredients
Ingredients
| Amt |
Name |
Type |
# |
%/IBU |
Volume |
| 8.77 gal |
Denver, Colorado |
Water |
1 |
- |
- |
| 6.00 g |
Calcium Chloride (Mash) |
Water Agent |
2 |
- |
- |
| 2.00 g |
Epsom Salt (MgSO4) (Mash) |
Water Agent |
3 |
- |
- |
| 2.00 g |
Gypsum (Calcium Sulfate) (Mash) |
Water Agent |
4 |
- |
- |
| 0.50 tsp |
Lactic Acid (Mash) |
Water Agent |
5 |
- |
- |
| 3 lbs 10.0 oz |
Pumpkin (8.0 SRM) |
Adjunct |
6 |
23.2 % |
0.41 gal |
| 9 lbs 12.0 oz |
Golden Promise (Simpsons) (2.0 SRM) |
Grain |
7 |
62.4 % |
0.76 gal |
| 2 lbs |
Crystal, Medium (Simpsons) (55.0 SRM) |
Grain |
8 |
12.8 % |
0.16 gal |
| 2.0 oz |
Midnight Wheat Malt (550.0 SRM) |
Grain |
9 |
0.8 % |
0.01 gal |
| 2.0 oz |
Pale Chocolate Malt (200.0 SRM) |
Grain |
10 |
0.8 % |
0.01 gal |
| 1.000 oz |
Magnum [10.90 %] - Boil 35.0 min |
Hop |
11 |
25.9 IBUs |
- |
| 1.00 Items |
Whirlfloc Tablet (Boil 15.0 mins) |
Fining |
12 |
- |
- |
| 1.00 tsp |
Yeast Nutrient (Boil 15.0 mins) |
Other |
13 |
- |
- |
| 0.50 tbsp |
Pumpkin Pie Spice (Primary) |
Spice |
14 |
- |
- |
| 1.0 pkg |
SafAle English Ale (DCL/Fermentis #S-04) [23.66 ml] |
Yeast |
15 |
- |
- |
| 1.00 tbsp |
Pumpkin Pie Spice (Secondary) |
Spice |
16 |
- |
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| 1.00 Items |
Cinnamon Stick (Secondary 5.0 mins) |
Spice |
17 |
- |
- |
Mash Profile
Mash Steps
| Name |
Description |
Step Temperature |
Step Time |
| Saccharification |
Add 35.06 qt of water at 159.7 F |
152.0 F |
45 min |
| Heat |
Heat to 158.0 F over 10 min |
158.0 F |
15 min |
| Mash Out |
Heat to 170.0 F over 7 min |
170.0 F |
10 min |
If steeping, remove grains,
and prepare to boil wort
Recipe Notes Brewing salts in the mash
water. This should bring Denver water profile (as defined by BeerSmith)
to Ca=95,Mg=14,Na=21,SO4=108,Cl=111,HCO3=104 Acid addition to bring
calculated pH around 5.4 Mash grains and pumpkin as directed. Boil as
directed. Cool to as close to 60 degrees as possble. Add first 1/2 tbsp of
pumpkin pie spice to fermentor with wort. Hold low temperature for first 24 -
48 hours of fermentation, allowing to raise where it wants after that. After
about a week of fermentation, add more pumpkin pie spice. Add spice and Cinnamon
Stick to secondary fermentor and rack beer on top of this. Make a tincture
with more pumkin pie spice so that you can evaluate spicing of beer at time of
bottling and add tincture to taste.
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