10/14/2023
On this day in 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed H.R 1337 which exempted beer brewed at home for personal use from taxation.
What better way to celebrate than brewing a new/modified beer recipe. While every other brewery is already talking about their winter and Christmas beer releases, SRBC is just getting around to a pumpkin beer to try and make fall last longer than a week.
After dumping last year's batch - which was brewed with a whole roasted pumpkin - we scaled back to a pumpkin puree to see if we have more success. With additions of cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, and pumpkin pie spice, the only thing missing is some graham crakers to make for a pumpkin pie beer.
We had to keep a watchful eye on the mash as the puree did slow down the recirculating water at times, but what we collected for fermentation smells incredible and has some great color to it.
Happy Homebrew Legalization Day!
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