Pumpkin ale fermented in a pumpkin ..

[Schumed]

Want to try a wild fermentation so made a basic pumpkin ale and fermented inside a pumpkin after a week I transferred back to a secondary ...Definitely have something wild going on...I created a sour pumpkin ale has a slight acidic smell and taste with a pumpkin finish ...going to let it ride awhile and let the science experiment get funky

 

[Hello]

Yeah, I'd say it was infected with something.
What was your process with the cleaning of the pumpkin. I'm curious.

 

[ROLLTIDE]

I'm going to comment just so I can keeps tabs on this.......interesting. I have 3 little pie pumpkins I will be doing something with right after Halloween, just undecided right now.

 

[Bennywisest]

This is a pretty awesome idea. I'm interested. Did you pitch yeast in the pumpkin as well, or just let it wild ferment?

 

[BGBC]

What kind of pumpkin did you use in the brew itself? That looks like a carving pumpkin, not good for eating. Nice looking pellicle though.

What yeast (if any) did you pitch?

 

[Schumed]

I pitched with us-05

Canned pumpkin in the boil

I just scraped out the seeds ...didn't do any other cleaning of the pumpkin wanted what ever was in there to infect the ale...

This is 2 gallon batch only about 1 1-2 gallons made to the pumpkin

 

[chocotaco]

Neat experiment! Let us know if it tastes good.