Speaking of Pumpkin Ale

The current pumpkin ales are strictly a recent invention of America's craft beer industry. But interestingly (at least to me) this is not the first time America has invented a pumpkin ale. in the colonial era when colonists were short of barley and wealthy in pumpkins they would make a beer by fermenting pumpkin juice. On homebrew.com I found that The American Philosophical Society has recipe from 1771:

Receipt 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 &c. as Malt Beer.

Frankly I'd like to try it. But not enough to juice a bunch of pumpkins.