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Mystery solved. I had a thought the other day perhaps when some of the krausen seeped out of the lid in a spot or two some of it had run underneath the fermenting bucket and missed being mopped up. Turns out that theory was right. When I moved the bucket out of the chamber this morning to...

Smell has now changed to rotting shellfish. Lovely. Pulled another sample which again looks, smells and tastes good. Beer now down to 1.013 and looks to be clearing. A lot of gas still coming out of solution (bubbles). Might rack over to the bottling bucket now see if getting it out of the...

That my friend is good!!!

Ha ha. It's even worse.

Thanks guys. Ill just see if the smell disappears and then if that fails I'll try racking to a secondary maybe? Its slowly got worse over the last week so will be interesting to see if it clears off.

I have just read that Urea has no smell so perhaps its more of an ammonia smell? Basically like a toilet that hasn't been flushed for a few pees. Anyone had an ammonia smell before?

Hey peeps. My first post here so Hi! I'm looking for some advice on my current batch which is my 7th all grain brew. It's a Belgian Blonde Ale started a couple weeks or so back. It's basically 3kg pilsner malt 100g wheat 100g munich 350g sugar 25g hallertau at 60 mins. 5g saaz at 5 mins...