Comments on: Three Pumpkin Ales http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/10/threepumpkinales/ Quenching your thirst with sips, nips and tipples. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:29:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Donavan Hall http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/10/threepumpkinales/#comment-449 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:56:23 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/10/threepumpkinales/#comment-449 You are right that most brewers don't use pumpkin, or if they do, only a homeopathic doseage so they can claim there is actual pumpkin the beer. I wrote another article about Long Island pumpkin ales that will appear in a local publication that makes this point more clearly. <br /> <br /> Try an experiment. Dip a tea bag of allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg into Pabst Blue Ribbon. Then coat the rim of the glass with a two to one cinnamon sugar mix. You'll have Pabst Pumpkin Ale. It's easy and indistiguishable from the three beers mentioned above (almost). You are right that most brewers don’t use pumpkin, or if they do, only a homeopathic doseage so they can claim there is actual pumpkin the beer. I wrote another article about Long Island pumpkin ales that will appear in a local publication that makes this point more clearly.

Try an experiment. Dip a tea bag of allspice, cinnamon, and nutmeg into Pabst Blue Ribbon. Then coat the rim of the glass with a two to one cinnamon sugar mix. You’ll have Pabst Pumpkin Ale. It’s easy and indistiguishable from the three beers mentioned above (almost).

]]> by: Rob the fan http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/10/threepumpkinales/#comment-448 Tue, 10 Oct 2006 06:41:04 +0000 http://thespiritworld.net/2006/10/10/threepumpkinales/#comment-448 Ahh, personally I'm a fan of pumpkin ales. Or pretty much anything pumpkin.<br /> <br /> On a recent epsiode at Basic Brewing Radio, Pumpkin Ales were brought it. It seems many homebrewers and most micro/mega brews don't even put pumpkin in the beer at all. Evidentally people have associated the spices with pumpkin flavor rather then pumpkin itself. Ahh, personally I’m a fan of pumpkin ales. Or pretty much anything pumpkin.

On a recent epsiode at Basic Brewing Radio, Pumpkin Ales were brought it. It seems many homebrewers and most micro/mega brews don’t even put pumpkin in the beer at all. Evidentally people have associated the spices with pumpkin flavor rather then pumpkin itself.

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