Wednesday, October 14, 2009

cream ale

with the weather *finally* cooling down...(well...so i thought until i just looked at the paper today and saw that it is supposed to be 80 degrees on friday...whaaaa?) and the holidays approaching we decided to start brewing again! i made a cream ale and added some pumpkin spice (last year i did a nutty brown and added roasted pumpkin puree and you couldn't really taste the pumpkin - so i changed it up) i also decided to do an ale without grains and not as much hops to make it more of a creamy pumpkin-y flava...hopefully...

we had 3 worts going at once - all females...hopefully we can recruit more females, but due to space (and time - it takes about 3 1/2 hours start to finish) 3 is good :)


like a good little brewer i took my attenuation levels - my OG was 1.062 - it was supposed to be 1.052 - not sure what that will mean...the best part though is that if it doesnt turn out good - i still have time to possibly brew another before Christmas!

4 comments:

the BLAH BLAH BLAHger said...

This fascinates me.

CarleeKajsa said...

they sell wine making kits at my brew store too! i have only talked with one person who has done it and they said it was NAST!

Paige said...

Um, creamy pumpkin ale (with no hops) sounds like heaven to me. Can I place an order?

CarleeKajsa said...

don't worry paige - you are on the gift list! if it turns out good that is!