Kuhnhenn's All Hallows Pumpkin Ale, or How I Learned About Making Beer

primesuspect · September 2008

Three days ago, my adventure into brewing beer began.

I am going to write a nice, big, detailed blog post about my education in this regard, but suffice to say that tonight I got a 45 minute cram course with a master brewer, and learned SO much about the art, craft, science, and skill of brewing beer.

Wizards and chemists, all of them. Sorcery.

I spent the entire night in a bakery, baking pumpkins. I am sore, exhausted, and invigorated with new knowledge. This will be good.

UPSLynx · September 2008

life post on how to brew own beer? The masses must know of these secrets!

primesuspect · September 2008

Some pics so far of the brewing adventure:

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icrontic/2872855929/" title="PumpkinAle_2088 by Icrontic.com, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3120/2872855929_67cee779cb_b.jpg" width="1024" height="628" alt="PumpkinAle_2088" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icrontic/2872856279/" title="PumpkinAle_2134 by Icrontic.com, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3155/2872856279_585fa273ca_b.jpg" width="1024" height="381" alt="PumpkinAle_2134" /></a>

<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/icrontic/2873693650/" title="PumpkinAle_2154 by Icrontic.com, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/2873693650_a08f6d9e46_b.jpg" width="1024" height="683" alt="PumpkinAle_2154" /></a>

Garg · September 2008

This needs to be a full-length article on Life.

UPSLynx · September 2008

Gargoyle wrote:

This needs to be a full-length article on Life.

this

fatcat · September 2008

life doesnt exist right now...

check back soon

primesuspect · September 2008

Yeah, I'm gonna write all of this up.

Today I went back to the brewery. Perry, Kyle, and I skinned all the baked pumpkins and got ten gallons of pumpkin mash. Now that the messy stuff is done, I'm going back in a couple of days and we'll actually begin to brew.