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Looking for a really good all grain pumpkin beer recipe

cowboy up

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We are getting close to fall and hunting season and I would like to make a really good all grain pumpkin beer. Last year I tried a "kit beer" and I was disappointed in the results, although I believe it was more of my fault as a new brewer than the kit. I have also had commercial pumpkin beer that lacked any real flavor of pumpkin other than the spices.
Does anyone have a really good pumpkin beer recipe that uses cut up whole pumpkin in the mash, and some really flavorful spices?
And while we are on the subject, how about a good holiday beer with say some raisins, dates, spices, and other adjuncts fitting for the holidays?
Thanks,  Cowboy Up!! :)
 
Last fall's Zymurgy had a cover article on some PA guys quest for a great pumpkin ale.  It sounded great.  A friend here made it verbatim and it was wonderful.  Liquid pumpkin pie. 
 
Once I bottle the one I made late last year and see if it's any good, I'll try to find the ProMash recipe and manually convert it to Beer Smith format. I made my own spice pack up, used a mortar and pestle to crush the allspice berries, etc., so everything was fresh.

Basically, it was 10 lbs of 2-row base malt, 1 lb crystal, 10 lbs pumpkin, I think, and various pumpkin spices (but not the generic "pumpkin spice" from the supermarket). I used either Cascade alone or with Centennial. It was an APA with pumpkin tossed in. It made for a slow runoff mash, so be forewarned. Some claim that you only need the spices, not the pumpkin. I made this one to see if it would turn out well with the actual pumpkin in the recipe.

I had a system problem and reinstalled Windows. I do have everything on a backup but need to find it, and it's not easy since I have to use the program that made the backup, which does not have a search function. I only restored what I felt I needed right away and restore other things as I need to, so I don't have the recipe easily accessible.

BTW, is there a converter program available to convert from ProMash to Beer Smith recipe format?

Don
 
Try this:
http://www.beersmith.com/forum/index.php?topic=512.0

Make sure your recipies are in txt format not rec and it should work.

Cheers
Preston
 
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