To be entered into the homebrew competition for the 2016 Baltimore Craft Beer Festival 🙂
Recipe Type: All-Grain
Yeast: WLP500
Yeast Starter: 1L and 0.5L starters from two separate pure pitch packs
Batch Size (Gallons): 10.5 gallons
Original Gravity: 1.075 (+0.064 w/ D90 ≈ 1.081)
Final Gravity:
IBU: ~25
Boiling Time (Minutes): 75
Color:
Primary Fermentation (# of Days & Temp):
18# Maris Otter
6# German Pilsner
2# C60
2# CaraAroma
2# D90 (after krausen falls)
2oz Northern Brewer (7.8 AAU)
(6) 16oz Organic Pumpkin packages and (1) Libby’s 15oz pumpkin can (111 oz) bated at 350* for 60 minutes
half of the pumpkin (roughly) went into the mash, half into the pot
1# rice hulls
Mashed in 10gal water at ~163*, ended up somewhere around 146* mash temp
3 tsp pumpkin spice at 15 min
Sunday 9/25: pitched one package of D-90 in each carboy
Thursday 9/29: FG 1.010 in each carboy (9.6%) Woot!!