How To Make Beer In A Pumpkin: Cask'O'Lantern Homebrew

I watched your video.  You asked viewers to share favorite beer recipes.  I love Hefeweizen beer.  My favorite beer recipe is Charlie Papazian's from the 2nd edition of _The New Complete Joy of Homebrewing_ (High-Velocity Weizen).  I use a step mash process, following the recipe to the letter with the exception that I use a combination half Wyeast 3638 (Bavarian Wheat) and half Wyeast 3068 (Weihenstephan).  The yeast is critical in Hefeweizen.  Weihenstephan is widely considered the best yeast for this style, but I find that 3638 adds a flavor that is missing in Weihenstephan.  I lived in Germany for 4.5 years and drank a lot of Hefe.  I know how it should taste.  Also, I never use corn sugar for conditioning.  I have recently stopped using malt extract as well and begun kräusening.  If you do not want to kräusen, you should at least use malt extract instead of corn sugar for conditioning.

Hey guys you may want to try making water kefir and regular kefir. It seems much easier and realistic for everyone to try at home, not to mention that it is actually good for you. Kombucha is also great and easy and even making your own liquors.

After i was done watching this I was thinking you should make a Beer Bread. It would be fun. I only know of one recipe its 3 cups flour 1/4 cup sugar and 12 oz of your favorite beer. (Sounds like an up coming show) I HOPE

In efforts to have a DIY wedding, we went to a brew shop to make our own beer to serve at our reception. We picked out a recipe, mixed it up, cleaned up our mess and were told to come back two weeks later to bottle.
12 doz = 2. I think the most expensive part would have been the bottles. To avoid that  I found my own and did a little pre bathtub sterilization and melted the labels off. We made custom labels and did a final cleaning with the equipment at the shop. The whole experience was great, and a lot of fun! Also, making your own beer means no preservatives and you know every lovable ingredient inside that bottle. Cheers WCF's!

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Brewing pumpkin beer in a pumpkn?  That's a good idea!

You could put it into an ice bath to speed up the cooling time, freeze bottles of water and toss those in the brew then place the bucket'o'brew into ice water in your bath tub or sink if you have a large enough one. Stir every house until cooled.

Where can I get the supplies to make this? I so wanna try at home brewing  now!

If you don't have a wort cooler, add ice by volume (A pint of water is a pound of weight) in order to cool the beer more quickly. :)

Yipes! Beer should cost about 0 a bottle for all that work! I admire your patience and science project/chem lab persnicketyness. Congrats!

I've never tried brewing before, but it's on my list of things to learn! On Flickr, I saw one woman upload a picture of a ginger and beet porter. Now THAT looked tasty. I'm also a big fan of coffee stouts and oatmeal stouts. Yum-yum.

That wasn't yeast! That was mold!

A friend and I did some home brewing about a year ago and one thing a couple people told use when you cool it down to 70 Degrees it helps to do it fast like dip the bucket into an ice bath. They said it will help the beer not "skunk." of course we didnt cool it fast and ran out of ideas so we dipped it into the pool it didnt really help cool it down haha. buuut it did come out pretty "skunky." But you did say yours came out pretty good. We're thinking about doing a new batch soon and this sounds fun. we really like pumpkin brewed beer. if we get around to doing it we'll try your recipe and try the rapid cooling. Then well try to get back to you about how it came out. Keep up the good work guys. Makes me look forward to mondays! thanks.

Good show and Cool idea.  But, I'm suprised that the beer turned out so well.  Leaving the beer in the pumpkin for a week sounds like an excellent way to get it colonized by all types of undesirable bacteria.

Looks like fun but DAYUM, a lot of work. I was going to whine about how I'm too lazy for all that effort until I saw that it was only about id="comment_list" per bottle. Cheap will kick my lazy out every time.

In easy news, I finally made the apple cake. Good lawd, it's delicious! So fast, easy and inexpensive to make. It's going to be a new family favorite. Thanks, Working Class Foodies!