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You are listening to the Informal investigation podcast This is the podcast where we investigate, experience, and share interesting finds My name is Asher and lets begin ::Music:: The informal investigation podcast is for entertainment purposes only. We are not responsible if you mess up. You should always do your own homework. If you try anything mentioned on this podcast you are doing so at your own risk. The views presented on this podcast are solely those of the speakers and do not represent any affiliated or unaffiliated organizations. Today we are opening an informal investigation into pumpkin beer If you like what you hear on this podcast please subscribe to us on your podcast listening app of choice to be notified about all of our latest episodes For those of you who haven't noticed the summer has come to an end I’m sorry, the fall is now upon us, and winter is coming It is that time when pumpkin everything has completely taking over our lives We have to make that difficult decision every morning whether to order our regular black coffee or a pumpkin spice latte Pumpkinizing everything has become the norm’ and everyone's inner basic white girl has come out to play I was listening to the radio the other day and the host made a joke “They even put pumpkin spice on grill cheese” and everyone laughed on the laugh track. Its no joke! 2 years ago I made a killer wrapped pumpkin spice brie that could have easily been turned into amazing grilled cheese sandwiches Today we are not talking about PSL’s aka Pumpkin spice lattes or some other modern pumpkinized foodity but rather one that dates back to 1771 . Yes, 17 freakin 71. In doing research for this episode I got my hands on the https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195367138/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=iipodcast-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=54504bf91829ddf51871e4b54f1d9c6e&creativeASIN=0195367138 (oxford companion to beer written by Garrett Oliver) - who I consider one of the most famous brew masters alive today This book is an encyclopedia for beer It literally goes from A to Z everything beer As I clicked through the pages and got to the letter P and to my surprise there was actually a section under pumpkin beer It seems that pumpkin ale is the first original American beer style dating back to the 18th century As we know, beer is traditionally made by soaking barely and hops in water then allowing the sugars from the barely to ferment creating beer Because of grain shortages at that time the colonists were looking for other sources of sugars to ferment into alcohol Well...you can guess what happened next! Get the pumpkins! Screamed the colonists Smash um! Squeeze um! Hop um! This actually happened... https://www.amazon.com/dp/0195367138/ref=as_sl_pc_tf_til?tag=iipodcast-20&linkCode=w00&linkId=54504bf91829ddf51871e4b54f1d9c6e&creativeASIN=0195367138 (Oliver) quotes a recipe: The recipe is entitled Receipe for pompion ale “Let the pompion be beaten in a trough and pressed as apples. The expressed juice is to be boiled in a copper a considerable time and carefully skimmed that there may be no remains of the fibrous part of the pulp. After that intention is answered let the liquor be hopped cooled fermented as malt beer. “ This recipe was published by the American philosophical society in Feb 1771 This recipe is almost like a pumpkin cider. If you break it down to its most basic elements Its essentially pumpkin juice that is hopped and fermented Not exactly sure when our modern version of pumpkin beer surfaced. Wikipedia says that The first commercially brewed pumpkin ale came from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Bill%27s_Brewery (Buffalo Bill's Brewery) in Hayward, California, in the 1980s. This was part of the PSL- pumkin spice latte craze where everything started to become pumpkin spice more then actual pumpkin per