The fumes, they smell like Peach Vodka...

As my signature implies, and friend and I recently brewed a Mango-Peach Wit. We tossed in some fresh peach slices along with the coriander + orange peel; I racked into a new bucket several days later, so that the tannins/bitterness in the orange peel and coriander didn't overpower.

At seven days post-brew, I added a whole bunch of fresh peach and mango slices, and let them steep for 9.5 days.

Last night, I bottled. When I opened the bucket to transfer to the bottling vessel, I (as is typical) took a big sniff. ACK! :cross: That junk knocked me back and cleared my sinuses out...it was like sniffing rubbing alcohol, but with peach flavoring.

Anyway, my question is: what does this mean? Anything? I realize that the yeast was just munching on the fruit's sugar and crapping out alcohol, but did I bottle too soon? The yeast appeared to have settled into a nice cake on the bottom, so that's no big deal; but I kinda worry about overcarbonation in-bottle if there were excessive fruit sugars and active yeasts in the mix, in addition to the priming sugars. I tasted some of the stuff when I bottled, and it didn't taste too sweet---in fact, it tasted like liquid gold...so my fears may be misplaced.

Any thoughts?

Did you take any specific gravity measurements? If there is still a bunch of sugar in the bottles, the yeast might have fun time with that. Hope you don't get any bottle bombs. Might stink up the whole house.

troybinso said:

Did you take any specific gravity measurements? If there is still a bunch of sugar in the bottles, the yeast might have fun time with that. Hope you don't get any bottle bombs. Might stink up the whole house.

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Nope, didn't take any readings. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that I don't have any exploders, and that the peaches + mangoes were just very infused with alcohol (they were, I tasted some).

That sounds like a good time, Enjoy the fruit, but be careful with the bottles.


Let us know how it turned out.

Well, update on the Mango-Peach Wit. Tried my first bottle last night---yeah, it's only been like 10 days since bottling, but I was curious. I don't think I have to worry too much about bottle bombs---the one I tried wasn't very carbonated yet, even at 10 days. But the beer itself was phenomenal!!! The peach and mango are identifiable, but not overpowering. The color is a beautiful, brilliant orange. This is going to be one hell of a finished beer!