Nice videos. I ended up in Michigan last summer and really enjoyed the craft beers and the pumpkin ales. In the UK we tend to go for the burnt toffee taste of pumpkin beer, but I much prefer the spice, so going to give that a go this year. If you are ever in Detroit get yourself to Motor City Brewing, really good stuff there. I have done one BIAB so far, it really works great. All grain is working out much cheaper than extract and much more fun. Feels like I am really brewing. Keep the vids coming. Thanks.
Biab Brewing sweet. I was going to brew this soon, but now I have to put it off. ive been introduced to world of water chemistry for beer brewing. trying to figure it out. your video quality and content is amazing. thanx again
i dont see too many people doing the brew in a bag with propane. how do you like that? how well does a kettle like that hold heat for an hour? do you have to kick the burner on periodically?
LoveMyMedicine I mash for 90 minutes and usually insulate the kettle with a large towel or winter coat. You definitely have to kick the heat on from time to time, but it works out pretty well.
I plan on doing this soon, I am thinking of adding some biscuit to the grain bill. Somebody told me it gives a nice crust like flavor, just like a slice of pie. What do you think? The beer came out really clear btw nice!
Sounds pretty good. I found this here www.howtobrew.com/section2/chapter12-1.html, if it helps. "Biscuit Malt 25 L This fully toasted, lightly roasted malt is used to give the beer a bread and biscuits flavor. It is typically used as 10% of the total grain bill. Gives a deep amber color to the beer." Let me know how it turns out. Cheers!
Since I didn't use a blow-off tube on that session, I don't have any of the fermentation documented after about 26 hours. I looked at my raw footage and after 24 hours it jumps to two weeks. If I were to guess, it would have started to die down between 36-48 hours.
I didn't have my carboy thermowell when I did this video (more about my temperature control build here: biabbrewing.com/brew-equipment/fermentation-temperature-control-build-for-homebrewing/) so I wasn't monitoring the temperature throughout as I do now. I just don't have good notes on the fermentation temperature to share unfortunately. Sorry.
Do you remember what water volume you started with? I am guessing you used the BIAB calculator on the site ;) did you have to correct for the volume of pumpkin going in?
Per the calculator, I started with 7.38 gallons. So figure about 7.5 depending on how you measure it. By the time I packaged to the keg, I was off about 1/2 gallon (put 4.5 gallons in). My pre-boil volume was high, and there was a lot of sediment, so I'm sure an adjustment should have been made to account for the pumpkin. I don't know how accurate just adding the weight of the pumpkin to the grain bill would have been since the absorption rate would have been different for the pumpkin versus the grains, but it may be a place to start.
Hi, I'm wanting to do a pumpkin ale ready for Halloween and am having to use canned pumpkin too (live in Norway) Did you get a lot of pumpkin taste or is it mostly aroma?
Dan Smith Hi Dan, the canned pumpkin added a bit to the flavor/aroma and baking it helps a lot there. It definitely added to the color, as you can see from the video. The spices are key though. If you go here: biabbrewing.com/brew-sessions/northern-brewer-smashing-pumpkin-ale/, I list how I modified the spices in this batch from the recipe. At the bottom of the page is a link to the recipe kit. Once on the NB page, click on the Additional Information tab and you'll see a link to the recipe there. Cheers!
Nice videos. I ended up in Michigan last summer and really enjoyed the craft beers and the pumpkin ales. In the UK we tend to go for the burnt toffee taste of pumpkin beer, but I much prefer the spice, so going to give that a go this year. If you are ever in Detroit get yourself to Motor City Brewing, really good stuff there. I have done one BIAB so far, it really works great. All grain is working out much cheaper than extract and much more fun. Feels like I am really brewing. Keep the vids coming. Thanks.
nice video and beautiful set you got keep up the good work ...cheers
+Cencal 79 Thanks. Cheers!
cool music sounds like a super joint ritual/down them
Nice job, I make the pumpkin ale 2 cheers
where at in Michigan? Michigander checking in!
Metro Detroit area. How about you?
Tri-city area.
great vid, imam brew this soon. I looked on your website to see what specific spices you used. couldn't find them. help is appreciated
thanx
Biab Brewing sweet. I was going to brew this soon, but now I have to put it off. ive been introduced to world of water chemistry for beer brewing. trying to figure it out. your video quality and content is amazing. thanx again
i dont see too many people doing the brew in a bag with propane. how do you like that? how well does a kettle like that hold heat for an hour? do you have to kick the burner on periodically?
meaning the mash not the boil
LoveMyMedicine I mash for 90 minutes and usually insulate the kettle with a large towel or winter coat. You definitely have to kick the heat on from time to time, but it works out pretty well.
I plan on doing this soon, I am thinking of adding some biscuit to the grain bill. Somebody told me it gives a nice crust like flavor, just like a slice of pie. What do you think? The beer came out really clear btw nice!
Sounds pretty good. I found this here www.howtobrew.com/section2/chapter12-1.html, if it helps. "Biscuit Malt 25 L This fully toasted, lightly roasted malt is used to give the beer a bread and biscuits flavor. It is typically used as 10% of the total grain bill. Gives a deep amber color to the beer."
Let me know how it turns out.
Cheers!
where did you get the thing that you where taking your beer samples with or what is it called i can look it up
That was a bottle filler that connects to your bottling bucket. I use a wine thief now. it's much faster.
thank so do i
Do you know how many days you had of active fermentation before it started to die off?
Since I didn't use a blow-off tube on that session, I don't have any of the fermentation documented after about 26 hours. I looked at my raw footage and after 24 hours it jumps to two weeks. If I were to guess, it would have started to die down between 36-48 hours.
no info on gravity! looks good but share some stuff!
This is how that batch came out: OG was 1.052 and my FG was 1.009
Can you tell what your ferment temp was?
I didn't have my carboy thermowell when I did this video (more about my temperature control build here: biabbrewing.com/brew-equipment/fermentation-temperature-control-build-for-homebrewing/) so I wasn't monitoring the temperature throughout as I do now. I just don't have good notes on the fermentation temperature to share unfortunately. Sorry.
Do you remember what water volume you started with? I am guessing you used the BIAB calculator on the site ;) did you have to correct for the volume of pumpkin going in?
Per the calculator, I started with 7.38 gallons. So figure about 7.5 depending on how you measure it. By the time I packaged to the keg, I was off about 1/2 gallon (put 4.5 gallons in). My pre-boil volume was high, and there was a lot of sediment, so I'm sure an adjustment should have been made to account for the pumpkin.
I don't know how accurate just adding the weight of the pumpkin to the grain bill would have been since the absorption rate would have been different for the pumpkin versus the grains, but it may be a place to start.
Hi, I'm wanting to do a pumpkin ale ready for Halloween and am having to use canned pumpkin too (live in Norway) Did you get a lot of pumpkin taste or is it mostly aroma?
and do you have the recipe? I can't order the kit from the us to here :/
Dan Smith Hi Dan, the canned pumpkin added a bit to the flavor/aroma and baking it helps a lot there. It definitely added to the color, as you can see from the video. The spices are key though. If you go here: biabbrewing.com/brew-sessions/northern-brewer-smashing-pumpkin-ale/, I list how I modified the spices in this batch from the recipe.
At the bottom of the page is a link to the recipe kit. Once on the NB page, click on the Additional Information tab and you'll see a link to the recipe there.
Cheers!
BiabBrewing.com That's excellent, thanks a lot :) Great to see people brewing their beers and then how it tasted at the end.
Hi, forgot to say but my pumpkin ale I made from your video turned out really well :) thanks for uploading
Dan Smith
Great Dan. Glad it worked out. Cheers!
Dat kegerator.....