owner: Michael Erwin | started: 08/20/2008 | last updated: 09/18/2008
Recipe: Pocahontas' Pumpkin Pleaser | status: Enjoying
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8/20/2008 - Buying ingredients tomorrow. Prepping yeast starter tonight. Styrian Goldings not available. Substituting Fuggle.
8/21/2008 - Wow, first pumpkin smells, then Willamette, then Fuggle, and finally cinnamon, and that was just the boil!!!
Recipe mods: 1 can Muntons amber, 1 can John Bull amber. Substitute Fuggle for Styrian Golding. 1 package Windsor dried yeast.
8/23/08 - pitched at 76F last night. Bu-bu-bu-bubbling.
8/28/2008 - racked to secondary. Darn, no numbers here. Where are the numbers? The OG was pretty high, but how high I can't say! I do remember thinking, this is the biggest beer I've ever done. I'm thinking it was in the 80s. The SG when I racked was about 1.018, kinda high, but it is a pumpkin beer, so you gotta figure on sweetness. I expect it to come down when I add the gelatin. The cinnamon was very pronounced, not too much, but very noticeable. The pumpkin was more subtle, but certainly there. Much more so than the peach in the peach wheat I did earlier this summer.
9/11/2008 - Bottled. FG:1.017.
9/18/2008 - Whoa! This stuff is incredible! Like the best pumpkin pie you've ever had, IN A GLASS! It's all there, the pumpkin, the cinnamon, the ale, the bubbles! Awesome. It's not as clear as I had hoped, too much pumpkin floating around maybe. Can't wait to share this one when the weather turns cooler.
Not including the pumpkin, beercalculus.com says this is about a 1.060. So, it couldn't have in the 80s? Any help out there?
Let's go with 60. That gives us: 72% apparent attenuation, 5.6% ABV.
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