Autumn, and a homebrewer's thoughts turn to capturing the sensory experience of the season ... crisp nights, colorful leaves, and ripe gourds being turned into pie. We're often asked for pumpkin beer recipes at this time of year, and it's easy to understand why: sipping this spiced amber ale is like drinking a slice of pie.
Smashing Pumpkin Ale is clean and sweetly malty with just enough hop bitterness to balance and no hop aroma to mask the spices. A dose at the shutdown of the boil imbues the beer with a complex, lingering spice profile full of nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger that persists from the pour to the last swish in the pint glass.
The perfect small batch size for the 3 Gallon FastFerment.
Used roasted fresh pumpkin and it came out great !!!!!!
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Spencer
Smashing pumpkin
I like the beer, needs my spice through. The price was high for two gallons and some of the ingredients were not the same as what was in directions. I didn't have a scale for hop additions so winged it. Would have been better to have exact amounts, minor situation
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James D.
Smashing Pumpkins
I loved it as did my craft beer friends. I made one small change and that was using only one packet of spices. I wanted the essence of the spices and didn't want it to forward. I am still enjoying it
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Robert L.
Smashing Pumpkin Spiced Ale
I can't review it until it is done fermenting, and I can open and taste it. once that happens, I will be only too happy to review it. :-)
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Paul O.
Great tasting ale
I feel the pumpkin spice flavor did not come through. Overall a good tasting ale.
Used roasted fresh pumpkin and it came out great !!!!!!
S
Spencer
Smashing pumpkin
I like the beer, needs my spice through. The price was high for two gallons and some of the ingredients were not the same as what was in directions. I didn't have a scale for hop additions so winged it. Would have been better to have exact amounts, minor situation
J
James D.
Smashing Pumpkins
I loved it as did my craft beer friends. I made one small change and that was using only one packet of spices. I wanted the essence of the spices and didn't want it to forward. I am still enjoying it
R
Robert L.
Smashing Pumpkin Spiced Ale
I can't review it until it is done fermenting, and I can open and taste it. once that happens, I will be only too happy to review it. :-)
P
Paul O.
Great tasting ale
I feel the pumpkin spice flavor did not come through. Overall a good tasting ale.
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