Dos Amigos' Spicy Pumpkin Ale

We are now approaching to holiday season, you can start to feel the air changing, see some Halloween decorations, read about unfair taxes to be applied for Black Friday shopping and even see a couple of houses where someone decided to start putting out Christmas decorations!!! We all react different but, for the homebrewers this is translated as: SPICY SEASON ALE!!!

And just to follow this holiday spirit we have decided to brew our own Spicy Pumpkin Ale!!!

Let's share it you:

Brew date: October 21, 2012

4.5kg Pale Ale Malt
0.5kg Caramel 30
0.5kg Munich Malt
0.1kg Chocolate malt
1oz Perle 9% AA@60min
0.8kg Roasted pumpkin puree
1 tbsp cinnamon @7min
1.5 tbsp nutmeg @7min
4 cloves @7min
1 star anis @7min
1 whirfloc tablet @10min
Yeast S04

O.G: 1.056
F.G: not measured yet
ABV%: not measured yet

We mix/dissolved the pumpkin puree into the mash tun with the strike water

 Added the rest of the grains

Personally, we believe this is one of the best parts of brewing; the sweet smell you get from the malt is awesome, you get addicted to it!!!

 Happy brewers!!!

 Whirlpooling after 1h mashing @69C

 Getting the wort

 Adding the hop

 Finally... the spices

 After cooling the wort we added the yeast and set it apart for fermentation.

Since we haven't bottle this brew yet, there are no photos, we promise we will make sure to document it and post some pictures.

We are expecting this brew to be ready for November 24; where we will not only taste it but, celebrate thanksgiving and my lovely wife's birthday!!! There will definitely be pictures of that.

Hope you have enjoyed this new entry of our blog, we have a lot more recipes on target and we hope to continue sharing them with you.

Relax and have a home brew!!

See you soon!!!

Dos Amigos Homebrewing.