Maple Pumpkin Ale (For Beginning Homebrewers) Recipe
- 4.8 pounds light dry malt extract
- 12 ounces crystal 20L malt, crushed
- 3 ounces chocolate malt, crushed
- 30 ounces 100% natural canned pumpkin
- 1/2 ounces Northern Brewer Hops - 60 minutes
- 14 fluid ounces grade B dark maple syrup
- 1 teaspoon McCormick's pumpkin spice
- 1 package Safale US-05
- Spread the pumpkin into a shallow pan and bake at 350u0b0F for 60 minutes.
- Tie the crystal 20L and chocolate malt in a small mesh hop bag. Place the bag in 5.5 gallons of water in a 7.5 gallon pot and immerse the grain.
- Begin to heat, making sure mesh bag isn't sitting directly on the bottom of the pot. Remove the grain bag when the temperature reaches 170u0b0F.
- Bring wort to a vigorous boil. As water is heating, slowly add 4.8 pounds of light dry malt extract and the baked pumpkin, stirring constantly until completely dissolved. When the boil begins, add 1/2 ounce Northern Brewer hops in a mesh bag.
- After a total of 55 minutes has passed, add the maple syrup and the pumpkin pie spice.
- After total of 60 minutes of boil, remove from heat.
- After wort cools below 180u0b0F everything that touches it should be sanitary, and exposure to open air should be limited as much as possible.
- Cool wort by placing pot in ice bath or by using a wort chiller until it is at 65u0b0F. Transfer to sanitized fermentor (either a carboy or a fermentation bucket).
- Use a sanitized auto-siphon racking cane to remove enough wort to take a gravity reading with your hydrometer. Make a note of this number, since you will be using it to calculate the actual alcohol content when it's done fermenting. The reading should be around 1.057. Cover fermentor with a sanitized stopper and airlock.
- Agitate vigorously for at least 5 minutes or aerate using pure oxygen for 1 minute. Add 1 package of Safale US-05
- Ferment for at least 14 days at 64-68u0b0F
- Bottle after conditioning is complete,
light dry malt, crystal, chocolate malt, natural, minutes, maple syrup, pumpkin spice
Taken from www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2011/10/how-to-make-pumpkin-ale-pumpkin-beer-recipe-extract-homebrewing.html (may not work)