Recipe for October 2001


Pumpkin Pie Spice Ale

It's the time of year to add inappropriate ingredients to your brew


Ingredients

9# Pale Ale Malt
3# Crystal Malt, 20 Lovibond
1 can Durkee's dried pumpkin pie spice


Procedure

A single decoction mash was performed, to aim for a really malty finish.
Boiled for 70 minutes.
Hops: 0.5 oz Cascade pellets, at 7.7% AAU, for 60 minutes (about 20 IBU)
Yeast: Wyeast 2112, California Common Yeast
OG: 1.052
FG: unknown

When fermentation is complete and the ale is ready to keg,
take a can of Durkee's dried pumpkin pie spice and put it
in a coffee maker. Brew a batch of spice "tea" and add this
to the ale. Be careful when you do this because some water will
remain in the coffee filter/spice goop and it will be really hot.

Let it sit for a week to settle out, then all the ale after the first
mug or so will be quite clear and spicy. Don't drink all five gallons at once.