I have heard that boiling the pumpkin extract with the wort is not a good idea. Why is this? I just made my first attempt at pumpkin ale. So far we have no fermentation bubbles through the air lock after 3 days. We baked and blended pumpkin, then boiled it with the wort. We measured a gravity of about 1.020 before pitching the yeast. This seems to be really low. Do you have any ideas what went wrong and how we can fix it? We already tried pitching new yeast.
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18 years ago