Is this bad on a pumpkin wheat?!?

[bwatts4200]

I did about 3 weeks in primary/secondary, and then added the pumpkin when going into the bottling bucket, and it's been there for a week

 

[Butter]

Doesn't look good. I haven't brewed a pumpkin beer yet, but I believe people add the pumpkin in the boil or at the latest in the secondary. Did you add it raw, or did you cook it first?

 

[bwatts4200]

The pumpkin was raw but canned

 

[midfielder5]

Yeah that doesn't look good!

My pumpkin beer has pumpkin in the mash; others boil it. Never heard of it in bottling bucket.

 

[harrydrez]

Put it away for a year or so and see how it turns out.

 

[ReverseApacheMaster]

Definitely infected.

I've had terrible luck adding fruit straight from the can. It always gets infected.

 

[runningweird]

pumpkin beers have the pumpkin added during the mash or boil - never later on. Adding something later on brings on chances of getting what you have now : an infected batch of beer. My suggestion is to rack out from under the scum and off of the pumpkin slurry and let it sit in a dark place for a while.

why did you let the beer sit in the bottlng bucket for that long? if I bottle something it goes into the bottling bucket, gets its priming sugar addition, and then goes directly into bottles. Were you using the bottling bucket as a secondary?

just so you know, pumpkin adds almost nothing to a beer - the flavors are usually from spices. You might get some mouthfeel but not too much.