Name: Pumpkin Ale
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 small handful of bittering hops (15 g/½ oz); 750 g/1 lb 10 oz/2¼ cups liquid malt extract (light or amber); 1 small pumpkin (weighing no more than 1 kg/2 lb 4 oz), peeled, deseeded and flesh chopped into chunks; ½ tsp sugar per bottle, for priming; 2 cm/3/4 in piece of root ginger, peeled and grated; ½ a cinnamon stick; a pinch of grated nutmeg; ale or brewer’s yeast; 2 cloves

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Brew it Yourself

By Richard Hood and Nick Moyle

Published 2024

About

America appears to have a national addiction to pumpkin pie – and Americans have even taken to quaffing it in the form of pumpkin ale, a beer laced with the familiar pie spices. Surprisingly it makes a refreshingly spicy autumnal brew that’s so good it has earned a place in this book. Canned pie mixes are often used, but we prefer to start with the raw ingredients for our take on this unusual American ale.