cheezydemon said:What'd you find on the homebrew site?
They said it would probably add some wild yeast and other people were thinking about doing it too.
So I'm going to do a gallon or two in a giant pumpkin.
Passow's Pumpkin Experiments
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They said it would probably add some wild yeast and other people were thinking about doing it too.
So I'm going to do a gallon or two in a giant pumpkin.
Works for me!
Good luck.
Good luck.
I just took some gravity readings a sI hop to bottle this weekend and here's the low down:
Passow's Yet To Be Named Pumpkin Ale: It's at 6.6% abv right now, tasty but not really impressive. We'll see what it's like when it's carbinated.
Passow's Kurbis Rauch Pfortner- 7.7% abv....OMG This tastes AMAZING!!!! Slight malty/pumpkin sweetness on the frontend that mingles with the smoke flavor. Then the dark porter taste comes in midway and moves to the ever so subtle pumpkin pie spice backend.......... this may be a huge hit on my hands....
Passow's Yet To Be Named Pumpkin Ale: It's at 6.6% abv right now, tasty but not really impressive. We'll see what it's like when it's carbinated.
Passow's Kurbis Rauch Pfortner- 7.7% abv....OMG This tastes AMAZING!!!! Slight malty/pumpkin sweetness on the frontend that mingles with the smoke flavor. Then the dark porter taste comes in midway and moves to the ever so subtle pumpkin pie spice backend.......... this may be a huge hit on my hands....
Glad to hear it.
I will soon brew my coveted pumpkin seed ale.
You won't see a recipe!
I will soon brew my coveted pumpkin seed ale.
You won't see a recipe!
Well, I bottled my Pumpkin Ale (called "It's The Great Pumpkin Ale, Charlie Brown"). But I also put 1.5 gallons of it into a sanatized, carved out pumpkin. I'm going to age it for a week then bottle.
What's not pictures is the duct tape I covered the main hole with.
What's not pictures is the duct tape I covered the main hole with.
How did you sanitize the punkin? The piccy with the carburator on the punkin is off the charts on my WTF-o-meter.
Not very welltexas blues said:
Just took some sanatizing solution and swirled it in the pumpkin and dumped it.I KNOW!!!! IT'S SOOOO COOLLL!!!!!texas blues said:
UnNatural said:Pop a spigot in there and serve it cask style!
Nah, I have to bottle it. I have some brewmasters that are wanting to sample this experiment.
that pumpkin is coming from the same dude who was concerned about plastic buckets leechin! classic! 
IGG...perhaps if the experiment worked out okay, maybe next time you could fit the pumpkin inside a fermenting bucket and stick the airlock on there? I mean you're already slightly risking infections anyway, at least you'd know the bucket is airtight. Course...you could have racked onto diced punkin chunks as if they were oak chips. Hmmm...i might use that idea. I just moved mine to secondary.
i do think it's clever though. i don't want to come off as being all "ya should done it this way" or anything.
IGG...perhaps if the experiment worked out okay, maybe next time you could fit the pumpkin inside a fermenting bucket and stick the airlock on there? I mean you're already slightly risking infections anyway, at least you'd know the bucket is airtight. Course...you could have racked onto diced punkin chunks as if they were oak chips. Hmmm...i might use that idea. I just moved mine to secondary.
i do think it's clever though. i don't want to come off as being all "ya should done it this way" or anything.
fineexampl said:that pumpkin is coming from the same dude who was concerned about plastic buckets leechin! classic!
IGG...perhaps if the experiment worked out okay, maybe next time you could fit the pumpkin inside a fermenting bucket and stick the airlock on there? I mean you're already slightly risking infections anyway, at least you'd know the bucket is airtight. Course...you could have racked onto diced punkin chunks as if they were oak chips. Hmmm...i might use that idea. I just moved mine to secondary.
i do think it's clever though. i don't want to come off as being all "ya should done it this way" or anything.
I can see where you might get conflicting impressions from this. For this experiment I wasn't really concerned that the 1.5 gallons (not the whole batch remember) was going to get some wild bugs into it. Infact, I'm completely prepared for that eventuality.
I still stand on my plastic bucket comments as the point of fermenting your beer so it doesn't get contaiminated, 99% of the time, is the main goal. So you should take as many perventative steps as possable. But like I said, that wasn't the main goal here in this experiment
Yes, I could have done pumpkin cubes and sanatized them in the oven, then racked the beer onto them in the fermentor. But that wouldn't have looked as awesome as having an airlock on a duct taped closed pumpkin. Also, if it gets soured by some wild yeast....that might taste interesting.
Hence my whacy decision
fineexampl said:that pumpkin is coming from the same dude who was concerned about plastic buckets leechin! classic!
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HA! Funny story...a few weeks ago Igg calls me up and REALLLLY needed a fermentor. My glass 6 gal ones are all full, and I told him I had the plastic ale pale. He did not want ANY part of it...and opted to take one of my glass 5 gal. and said he would use a few GLASS growlers for the remainder of the wort LOL.
awesomeDidn't even fill it up to the 5 gallon mark...lost alot of wort to the pumpkinFr0tran said:HA! Funny story...a few weeks ago Igg calls me up and REALLLLY needed a fermentor. My glass 6 gal ones are all full, and I told him I had the plastic ale pale. He did not want ANY part of it...and opted to take one of my glass 5 gal. and said he would use a few GLASS growlers for the remainder of the wort LOL.
BTW, I have the fermentor ready to bring back to you...also need your help with my immersion chiller....the bottling bucket was too big, need to use a corney keg to rewrap it if you don't mind helping me.
Fr0tran said:
Bottling it Saturday morning probably...
imaguitargod said:Didn't even fill it up to the 5 gallon mark...lost alot of wort to the pumpkin
BTW, I have the fermentor ready to bring back to you...also need your help with my immersion chiller....the bottling bucket was too big, need to use a corney keg to rewrap it if you don't mind helping me.
Bottling it Saturday morning probably...
All 3 are currently in service. However, I originally made my chiller by wrapping it around this cylindrical rubbish bin in my basement...i still have it...unless you're afraid of it b/c it's plastic!
