Pumpkins

[DrTr1cks]

Anyone have a pumpkin recipe plz ?

 

[calumscott]

Ingredients
1 x pumpkin seed
1 x garden

Method
1. Plant seed in garden
2. Water
3. Weed
4. Repeat 2 & 3 as required
5. Pick

Sorry. I'll get my coat...

 

[stevie1556]

Ingredients
1 x pumpkin seed
1 x garden

Method
1. Plant seed in garden
2. Water
3. Weed
4. Repeat 2 & 3 as required
5. Pick

Sorry. I'll get my coat...

Hahahahaha! :razz:

I've been looking at a pumpkin wine recipe as I have 3 pumpkins left over from the weekend. The only problem I've found is they do take a rather long time to do, some take 1-2 years to make and mature. Let me know if you find a good recipe though :)

 

[extremedalek]

I've got one on the go atm - ill post the recipe when I get home from work.

M

 

[extremedalek]

As promised:

4lb of pumpkin flesh (I found 1 large carving pumpkin was more than enough)
435g sultanas
1056g sugar
1tsp tannin
juice of 1 lemon
1tsp pectolase
1campden tablet
1tsp yeast

Chopped pumpkin flesh and sultanas in fermenting bucket. dissolve sugar in water, add to bucket and wait until cool. Add, pectalase, tannin, juice and campden tablet. Leave overnight then pitch yeast starter. Ferment in fruit stirring daily until SG reaches 1.020 or below, than strain into DJ, topping up as necessary. My notes tell me that my OG was 1.084. It really gives off a funky smell after a couple of days, but my craft tastes during gravity testing are really quite nice. :thumb:

 

[stevie1556]

As promised:

4lb of pumpkin flesh (I found 1 large carving pumpkin was more than enough)
435g sultanas
1056g sugar
1tsp tannin
juice of 1 lemon
1tsp pectolase
1campden tablet
1tsp yeast

Chopped pumpkin flesh and sultanas in fermenting bucket. dissolve sugar in water, add to bucket and wait until cool. Add, pectalase, tannin, juice and campden tablet. Leave overnight then pitch yeast starter. Ferment in fruit stirring daily until SG reaches 1.020 or below, than strain into DJ, topping up as necessary. My notes tell me that my OG was 1.084. It really gives off a funky smell after a couple of days, but my craft tastes during gravity testing are really quite nice. :thumb:

Thanks for the recipe. I shall be trying this on my days off!

Just a few questions, is this for 1 gallon or 5 gallons? Also, how long do you need to age it for? When you say the flesh, do you mean the solid bit behind the skin, minus all the seeds and string type bits? Cheers.

 

[oldjiver]

Stevie, can you check your PMs? (Oldjiver)

 

[extremedalek]

As promised:

4lb of pumpkin flesh (I found 1 large carving pumpkin was more than enough)
435g sultanas
1056g sugar
1tsp tannin
juice of 1 lemon
1tsp pectolase
1campden tablet
1tsp yeast

Chopped pumpkin flesh and sultanas in fermenting bucket. dissolve sugar in water, add to bucket and wait until cool. Add, pectalase, tannin, juice and campden tablet. Leave overnight then pitch yeast starter. Ferment in fruit stirring daily until SG reaches 1.020 or below, than strain into DJ, topping up as necessary. My notes tell me that my OG was 1.084. It really gives off a funky smell after a couple of days, but my craft tastes during gravity testing are really quite nice. :thumb:

Thanks for the recipe. I shall be trying this on my days off!

Just a few questions, is this for 1 gallon or 5 gallons? Also, how long do you need to age it for? When you say the flesh, do you mean the solid bit behind the skin, minus all the seeds and string type bits? Cheers.

My recipe didn't really indicate the maturing time but I have read elsewhere up to two years. As for the flesh I used all the solid bits behind the skin and scooped out most if the seeds and mushy bits as I could.

Mine has been in a week now and it's just about ready to be strained into a DJ - SG last night was 1.028.