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[KSUwildcatFAN]

I think a pumpkin should be sweet and mine came out dry (1.06 og, 1.01 fg). Can I just add boiled sugar water to the beer right before kegging and refrigerating?

[ChefLamont]

If you do I would use lactose.

[johnpreuss]

This could be the answer to my super dry Irish Red... but how much would you use?

[KSUwildcatFAN]

This could be the answer to my super dry Irish Red... but how much would you use?

I have no idea. I'm just gonna have to go by feel and hope for the best.

[Mya]

if you are kegging, you can get some Pottasium Sorbate and add it with the sugar to prevent refermentation

[djinkc]

if you are kegging, you can get some Pottasium Sorbate and add it with the sugar to prevent refermentation

Campden will do that too won't it? I have about 3 lifetime supplies of it.

[Mya]

Campden will do that too won't it? I have about 3 lifetime supplies of it.

Campden will kill the yeast, but sorbate is best for stopping the fermentation

[Big Nake]

I have "back-sweetened" a spiced pumpkin ale. There is a thread around here where I did this. The beer was kegged, carbed and cold and I boiled some brown sugar solution and poured it in. It worked.HERE you go.

[chadm75]

Hey Ken...I brewed your Home Run Red Ale recipe and added pureed pumpkin in the mash, then added spice at f/o and again in the keg. BAM! Best Pumpkin Ale I've brewed in my five years of brewing. Spice is perfect...nice and layered throughout, perfect mouthfeel...a great beer!Thinking about brewing the HRRA recipe again in the Spring but this time as a Hoppy Red Ale. Blasphomy in your eyes, I know!

[Big Nake]

Blasphomy in your eyes, I know!

Not at all. I have been experimenting with some pale ales lately with a bunch of late hops, whirlpool hops and dry hops. I made a nice amber with a bunch of Mt. Hood and Liberty, a hoppy pale ale with Citra, Amarillo, Simcoe, Motueka and Nelson Sauvin, another one with ALL Nelsons and then another one with all Galaxy. Out of character for me but the one with the 5-hop blend is on tap right now and is muy bueno! Cheers Amigo... nice work on the spiced pumkpin home run type of thing!