Batch #137 - "Jaba~Escher" Pumpkin Ale

This pumpkin ale is the third and last batch using the pumpkins raised in our back yard in 2011.  That 36# Lakota Sioux pumpkin behind Jaba is the actual squash baked, grille roasted and frozen back then, ending up, finally, in this ale.
I'd better plan on raising more pumpkins in 2014, because this ale won't last long.

Cheers!
MT

Batch #136 - Rock Bottom Fresh Hops Pale Ale

I rose early one Sunday morning in late August to harvest these fresh hops.  I filled a bicycle pannier with them before dawn, and was brewing with them by 10:00 am, same day.  I used 4 ounces of hops flowers in the boil for the first 40 minutes, then introduced a second infusion of 2 oz from 30 - 60 minutes of the boil, and a third infusion of 2 oz from 45 - 60 minutes, using exclusively this fresh hops.
The resulting beer is not very bitter at all - in fact, it's downright sweet and quite floral in its after taste, a very interesting and delightful ale, if you're not exclusively fixated on super-hopped, cheek-cavingly bitter IPAs.
Cheers!
MT