So if someone doesn't like the taste of the combination of spices typical in a pumpkin beer, it's then hypocritical of them if they brew a beer with spice (or any other atypical ingredient, apparently).
Makes perfect sense.
There are lots of good calculators online for determining how much priming sugar to use. I like this one:
http://www.brewersfriend.com/beer-priming-calculator/
Some say to cut your priming sugar amounts down by 1/2 or a 1/3 when priming in the keg to avoid overcarbonation, while others just...
Personally I'd go with option 1 and just chalk it up as a mistake. It happens. I understand wanting to salvage it though, so if you go with either of the others, best of luck!
I can't find anything on it. Extremely doubtful since the IBU scale is all based on the bittering compounds specifically found in hops. I'm no brew scientist but I think it'd be difficult to impossible to shoehorn whatever compounds make coffee bitter into it and come up with a meaningful...
A nanobrewery around here tossed an entire birthday cake into the mash for a beer for their anniversary party. Never got a chance to try it but reports from the field indicated it was still recognizable as beer. So I think it's doable, no reason you can't, but I'll let you try it first. ;)
Condolences on your loss. ;)
I'm confused about what should have happened though. Did you mean to put your blowoff on the gas in port in order to carb your kegged beer with CO2 from the fermentation?