evanlee19 said:
I'm planning on making the pumpkin beer from your recipe. Had a few q's if you don't mind
From your posts it looked liked you increased the strike water amount to 2qt/lb. Total strike amount 24quarts? Making the batch sparge amount 36qts?
do you let the pumpkin you browned in the oven cool before you add it to the mash?
Thanks
Yeah i've found that 2qt/lb is a good ratio when using 2 cans of pumpkin. And I tend to do a single batch sparge, and in this case 3.5 gallons yields me the perfect boil volume. This may not be the case for your system... I've nailed down my numbers after doing this recipe enough times.
And as for cooling the pumpkin, yeah I let it sit out for 15-20 minutes. But I add it to the mash first before the grain so I can still dial in on the correct strike water temperature
Also, if you don't mind could I post this conversation on my recipe thread? They are good questions