Bad Aroma, Awesome Taste Fix

[Lodovico]

I brewed my pumpkin ale this year and used 100% real canned pumpkin and also threw in a can of pumpkin pie mix. Big mistake. I don't care what others say, don't do it. I threw it in the boil and after 10 days of fermentation, I had what looked like a pumpkin pie on top of the beer and it smelled awful. Must be the added ingredients in the mix.

I ended up kegging the beer and adding tinctures in vodka of ginger, nutmeg, fresh vanilla beans and a little cinnamon. It's a bigger beer 1.072 and it finished at 1.018 which is where I wanted it. I was going for significant body.

So here's the deal. The beer has a bad aroma, but an AWESOME taste. I'm an experienced brewer and anal as possible about sanitation and temp control. This aroma is from the pie mix; I'm convinced of that. If it didn't taste so good, I would just dump it because the aroma is bad. It's vegetal and almost DMS like which could be from cooked compounds in the mix? I did a 90 minute boil anyway.

Any suggestions on how to improve aroma in the keg without adding more spice to the flavor?? I know this probably isn't possible but looking for ideas. I know I could dry hop it to try and help, but that would be a weird mix of big hop aroma and pumpkin pie flavor.

Suggestions?

 

[jfr1111]

Apart from pinching your nose or dry-hopping, I don't really see anything. At least the corn/vegetal taste didn't carry over to the taste...

 

[Lodovico]

Apart from pinching your nose or dry-hopping, I don't really see anything. At least the corn/vegetal taste didn't carry over to the taste...

Yea exactly, which is weird to me that the nose and taste can be so vastly different. I'm trying to imagine a big hop aroma with pumpkin taste. Doesn't sound so good but a cheap experiment before resorting to drain pour.

 

[Malstorme]

Mals

 

[DragonOrta]

Sixpoint is doing a pumpkin beer with wet hops. Here's your chance to find out what it might be like before it gets released!

 

[sagnew440]

I've only used pumpkin in the mash(not the pie mix), and it had a pumpkin flavor but not vegetal. From what i gathered on the net the pie mix is only pumpkin, spices, and sugar (not anything that I havent thrown in a beer already). You could be getting the vegetal flavor from boiling the actual pumpkin, but I don't know for sure.