Pumpkin in Secondary

[Wild Duk]

Has anyone tried racking onto some pumpkin and if so how did it turn out?



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[brewbush]

I have only mashed with it.

However I would assume (not based on experience) that it would cause some haze and really pumpkin has no intrinsic flavor.
I don't think it would do much good, IMO.

 

[user 198378]

Do they make pumpkin extract?

Maybe try and add some while racking to the secondary

 

[myndflyte]

I think it'll be more of a pain than it's worth. Pumpkin doesn't really give the flavor a pumpkin beer is associated with. It tastes more like squash. If you are going for the typical pumpkin flavor, use the spice instead.

 

[Brew252]

last year I took a can of pure pumpkin puree and cooked it on the stove top for a while to try to caramelize some of the sugars in it, let it cool and then added it to the end of my primary fermentation. I cold crashed it before I racked it to secondary to try to reduce the haze of the beer but it still turned out very very turbid. although I do believe I could taste some of the pumpkin flavor in it if I were to do it again I would caramelize the pumpkin and then add it to the mash instead of during fermentation