5 gallons, extract/specialty grains

"This is a rich, smooth pumpkin ale with a nice sweetness and spiciness. It won third place in specialty fruit/spice beers two years ago in the Peach State Brew-Off in Georgia."

Ingredients:

• 6.6 lbs. amber malt extract syrup
• 1 lb. crystal malt, 40° to 60° Lovibond
• 1 oz. Willamette pellets, for 45 min.
• 1 oz. Styrian Goldings hop pellets, for 15 min.
• 2 lbs. canned Libby's all-natural pumpkin
• 3 cinnamon sticks
• 1 lb. honey
• 11.5 g. Edme ale dried yeast
• 3/4 cup sugar for priming

Step by Step:

Steep grain in 2 gals. of water while gradually heating kettle. Remove grains at 170° F. At boil add extract, pumpkin, and Willamette hops. Boil 30 minutes. Add two cinnamon sticks, honey, and Styrian Goldings hops. Boil 15 more minutes. Turn off heat and add last cinnamon stick. Add wort to 3 gals. cold water in fermenter. When cooled, pitch yeast. Primary ferment seven to 10 days and secondary one to two weeks.