Brewday : Bitter with Homegrown Hops & Pumpkin

Roasted the home grown pumpkin in the oven in big chunks with the skin on at gas mark 6 for 2 hours on the top shelf so it was nice and caramelized. When it was cool enough to handle, I removed the pumpkin flesh from the skin into a bowl. 1.3kg of lovely pumpkin ready for the brew.

The hops are all home grown as well, from this years crop, and with this brew I am using up the last of them. I like my beers quite hoppy which is why the quantities look a little high for a 20 pint brew.

The brew method is the same as I always do for my beers and follows the procedure here this makes around 20 pints of beer. The only thing that was done extra was the addition of the pumpkin flesh at the mash stage. The whole 1.3kg of pumpkin was added right at the start of the mash after the grains where rained in.

Pumpkin Bitter (Home Grown Hops) Ale Recipe by Simon Scott

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Recipe Specs

Original Gravity	Final Gravity	Colour (SRM / EBC)	Bitterness	Alcohol by Volume
1.036	1.009	8.3 / 16.4	30.9 IBU	3.5%

Brewhouse Specs

Recipe Type	Batch Size	Boil Time	Efficiency
All Grain/BIAB	12.0 Litres / 3.2 Gal	60.0 min	65.0%

Fermentables

Name	Type	SRM	Percentage	Amount
Golden Promise Malt	Grain	3.0	90.48 %	1.90 Kg / 4.19 Lbs
Crystal 60	Grain	60.0	9.52 %	0.20 Kg / 0.44 Lbs

Hops

Name	AA%	Amount	Use	Time
Target	9.0%	10.00 g / 0.35 oz	Mash	60 mins
Challenger	6.1%	8.00 g / 0.28 oz	Boil	60 mins
Fuggles	5.7%	12.00 g / 0.42 oz	Boil	60 mins
Fuggles	5.7%	5.00 g / 0.18 oz	Cube Hop	2 days
Target	9.0%	5.00 g / 0.18 oz	Cube Hop	2 days

Misc

Name	Amount	Use	Time
Pumpkin	1300.00 g / 45.86 oz	Mash	90 mins

Yeast

Name	Attenuation
Wyeast 1098 - British Ale	75 %

Mash Steps

Step Name	Time	Temperature	Type
Saccharification Rest	90.0 min	66.0 °C / 150.8 °F	Infusion

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READINGS:

	Reading
Temp 'C At Start Of Mash	68
Temp 'C At 45min mark Of Mash	66
Temp 'C At End Of Mash	65
SG Before Boil	1033
SG After Boil	1045
Volume of Wort in Cube	10.7 ltr
Dilution Required for target ABV%	2.5 ltr

10.7 liters of Wort ready for brew day