Smashing Pumpkin Ale All Grain Beer Recipe Kit

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Autumn comes, and a homebrewer's thoughts turn to capturing the sensory experience of the season...crisp nights, colorful leaves, and ripe gourds ready for pie-making. Pumpkin beer recipes are always a hit at this time of year, and it's easy to understand why this one's our favorite. Sipping this spiced amber ale is like drinking a slice of pie.

Delight and impress your friends with this perfect brew for fall. Smashing Pumpkin Ale recipe is clean and sweetly malty, with just enough hop bitterness to balance. A dose of select spices at the end of the boil imbues the beer with a complex, lingering spice profile full of nutmeg, cinnamon, and ginger that persists from the first pour to the last swish in the glass.

Read our blog post on how to use real vegetables in a pumpkin beer recipe. You'll need to purchase an additional 2 or 3 pounds of Rahr 6-row and provide your own 8 to 10 pound pumpkin (winter squash like butternut or acorn will work if pumpkin is out of season). Cut up the gourd, discard the innards, and roast or microwave the pieces until soft and cooked through, then peel. Mash the peeled, cooked pumpkin flesh with the 6-row and the included grains at 152°F for 1 hour before sparging and proceeding with the boil.

 

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SKU

0134, 0133

Beer Color Amber
Original Gravity

1054

Total Time to Make 6 weeks
Regional Style USA
Alcohol Content Medium
Yield 5 Gallons
Beer Style Amber Ale,Spice or Fruit Beer
Fermentation Type Ale
Beer Recipe Kit Instructions Click here for recipe kit instructions

Customer Reviews

Based on 111 reviews
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Richard L.
2 times the Smashing Pumkinn

So far so good. Didn't get a chance to brew them until 3 weeks ago so they still have a week in secondary to go before bottling. I didn't have enough saved fresh pumpkin from last falls harvest to do two batches so I did the second using buttercup squash. Cant wait to try it. Oh and this summer my son in law was cleaning out his downstairs entertainment fridge and found two bottles of Smashing Pumpkin I gave him from 2019. He saved it and we tried them back in July. WOW, 3 1/2 years and they knocked you socks off.

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JM
Love it

Really good kit, I always use fresh roasted pumpkin and rice hulls with this. I also add clove, cinnamon, allspice additions after about 2 weeks. I also age in a keg about a month more after the 4 weeks. My buddy asked what brewery his pint was from when I poured 😉😉

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Tim J.
Smashing Pumpkin Ale

Incredible beer. It was my first pumpkin beer and, as usual, NB put together a simple and very tasty recipe. Will have this seasonal beer on tap every year!

A
Anonymous
Smashing pumpkin

Loved using real pumpkin. Beer turned out delicious 😁

D
D J.
Pumpkin Ale

My second time brewing this ale and did a BIAB. Wanted a bit more pumpkin flavor so I added a little more spice. Last time I added some canned pumpkin but skipped that on this batch. Wort may have a been a little warm when I pitched the yeast. I had made a starter with “fast pitch”. At that time I also had the coffee stout and winter warmer at various stages of fermentation. I left it in the primary carboy the entire 4 weeks as I didn’t have a secondary available. Need another 5 gallon carboy for these multiple batches. All this said - I bottled 2 days ago and the taste at that time was just OK and I didn’t notice the additional pumpkin spice. Hopefully after a few weeks in the bottle this will improve. If the flavor is off it’s probably my fault as all other brews I have done from Northern Brew have been great.

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Customer Reviews

Based on 111 reviews
73%
(81)
19%
(21)
5%
(5)
2%
(2)
2%
(2)
R
Richard L.
2 times the Smashing Pumkinn

So far so good. Didn't get a chance to brew them until 3 weeks ago so they still have a week in secondary to go before bottling. I didn't have enough saved fresh pumpkin from last falls harvest to do two batches so I did the second using buttercup squash. Cant wait to try it. Oh and this summer my son in law was cleaning out his downstairs entertainment fridge and found two bottles of Smashing Pumpkin I gave him from 2019. He saved it and we tried them back in July. WOW, 3 1/2 years and they knocked you socks off.

J
JM
Love it

Really good kit, I always use fresh roasted pumpkin and rice hulls with this. I also add clove, cinnamon, allspice additions after about 2 weeks. I also age in a keg about a month more after the 4 weeks. My buddy asked what brewery his pint was from when I poured 😉😉

T
Tim J.
Smashing Pumpkin Ale

Incredible beer. It was my first pumpkin beer and, as usual, NB put together a simple and very tasty recipe. Will have this seasonal beer on tap every year!

A
Anonymous
Smashing pumpkin

Loved using real pumpkin. Beer turned out delicious 😁

D
D J.
Pumpkin Ale

My second time brewing this ale and did a BIAB. Wanted a bit more pumpkin flavor so I added a little more spice. Last time I added some canned pumpkin but skipped that on this batch. Wort may have a been a little warm when I pitched the yeast. I had made a starter with “fast pitch”. At that time I also had the coffee stout and winter warmer at various stages of fermentation. I left it in the primary carboy the entire 4 weeks as I didn’t have a secondary available. Need another 5 gallon carboy for these multiple batches. All this said - I bottled 2 days ago and the taste at that time was just OK and I didn’t notice the additional pumpkin spice. Hopefully after a few weeks in the bottle this will improve. If the flavor is off it’s probably my fault as all other brews I have done from Northern Brew have been great.