variation on this recipe: http://www.homebrewtalk.com/f12/dogfish-pumpkin-clone-questions-349561/
brewed Saturday 9/1/2012
carmelized canned pumpkin – spread into a baking pan, cooked at 350* for 1 hour
SG (first 2.5 gallons): 1.059 (corrected from 1.042 at 148*)
SG (second 1.5 gallons): 1.044 (corrected from 1.026 at 150*)
OG: 1.071 !? (after cooling, measured before pitching yeast, suspecting it’s artifically high somehow)
yeast: 1quart starter from WLP001 washed from batch 4 (1 quart of water, 1 cup of DME, boiled 10 minutes then cooled in the fridge, added washed WLP001, let sit in air-locked growler overnight, approx. 20 hours)
10# 2-row
1# Special B
1# Crystal 60
1# brown sugar (60 minutes)
60 oz carmelized pumpkin (60 minutes)
1 oz Saaz (~5% – substitution for recommended Hallertau; 60 minutes)
1.5 tbsp Pumpkin Spice (15 minutes)
whirlfloc (15 minutes)
1 oz Saaz (5 minutes)
double-crushed at Black Dragon, mashed in 4gal of water (~1.33 lb/qt ratio) at 152 (strike temp 162, grain temp ~80) at 5:47p
keeping track of the temperature with my new USB temperature probe (TEMPer1)
152 at 5:47 and 5:55 – 151 at 6:13 and 6:20 – 152? at 6:28 at 6:47
added 1.5 gallon water at 180 to mash out
149 after i pulled 2.5 gallons off for the first boil
added 1.5 gallons for the second boil pot, brought it back to 152
Boiled both pots for 60 minutes, split the pumpkin, spice, whirlfloc, and hop additions (5/8 pumpkin and hops into the 2.5 gallon pot, 3/8 into the 1.5 gallon pot; ~1/2 whirlfloc tab in each; 1 tbsp spice in the 2.5 gallon pot, 0.5 tbsp spice in the 1.5 gallon pot)
strong fermentation, short lag, blowout during the second night, and I REALLY hope it didn’t get infected because it smells AMAZING.
9/23 – racked to secondary, gravity 1.006, estimated ABV is 8.5%??
10/6 – bottled!! Added 2/3 c brown sugar to 2c water, boiled for 10m and cooled before adding to the bottling bucket. Yielded 40 bottles. 1.007ish after adding sugar. beautiful spice, subtle squash & brown ale notes. Dark amber hue, clear as a bell, likely to benefit from some additional mouthfeely texture/character with carbonation