No, I'm not contemplating suicide. But this beer is loosely named after the '90s Chicago grunge band The Smashing Pumpkins, and their song "Today" always springs to mind when I think of Billy Corgan's greatest art performance ever. I would like to brew a pumpkin beer every fall from fresh baking pumpkins, but last autumn I was writing my thesis and not brewing, so I was unable to brew my 2013 pumpkin beer. I did buy two baking pumpkins at the end of September, roasted them, and froze 3 lbs. of flesh for my later use. This sat in my freezer since mid-October and I finally got to brew my pumpkin beer. 2012 saw a pumpkin porter, and this year I planned to mimic Dogfish Head's Punkin, starting with my Brown Jewel's Ale from last year and morphing it into a pumpkin brown ale using how DFH labels Punkin: Brown ale brewed with pumpkin and brown sugar. From there came this brew.
First runnings (left bottom), straining out second runnings (top right), and pumpkin (bottom right).
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Hoppity hops!
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