Peter Peter Pumpkin Ale - vol. III

Jon helping me rack the beer
The beer looked like it had finished fermenting by Friday afternoon, 5 days after it was brewed, so I threw it in the cold room over the weekend and today we racked it. The specs:
OG: 1.063
FG: 1.012
ABV: 6.7%


The pumpkin in mid-rack
I took a big ol' whiff (waft) of the hydrometer sample and it smelled somewhat rancid - not outright foul (eg. compost), but like an fairly infected beer. Had it smelled somewhat decent I would have primed it with some DME to let it carbonate naturally, but I was pretty sure after smelling it this afternoon that it was going to be a failure, so we just racked it to a keg and put some CO2 on it to force carbonate it. I'm going to give it two weeks or so to absorb some CO2 and then we'll give it a proper tasting.