Beer smells like canned cat food

TNGabe · Sep 2, 2012

I had a beer today that smelled like....canned cat food. Took me a while to put my finger on it, but a couple folks agreed with me.

Ever experienced this before and what might be the culprit? This was a commercial beer, heavily (over) spiced saison.

MisterTipsy · Sep 3, 2012

Which saison and what kind of cat food ?

JohanMk1 · Sep 3, 2012

Was it hopped with the hops from this thread?

Sorry, I couldn't resist.

passedpawn · Sep 3, 2012

TNGabe said:
I had a beer today that smelled like....canned cat food. Took me a while to put my finger on it, but a couple folks agreed with me.

Ever experienced this before and what might be the culprit? This was a commercial beer, heavily (over) spiced saison.

Well, what was the brand?

TNGabe · Sep 3, 2012

passedpawn said:
Well, what was the brand?

Natty Greene's. 9 lives maybe?

Jakeintoledo · Sep 3, 2012

See what the cats think about it.

AmandaK · Sep 3, 2012

Jakeintoledo said:
See what the cats think about it.

Lol

MisterTipsy · Sep 3, 2012

Helllooooo there OP? What was the Saison for the second time?

I'm betting on Skank 7.

Stargazer · Sep 3, 2012

I thought I heard him say Natty Greene's but I could be wrong.

MisterTipsy · Sep 3, 2012

Ooops. I thought Natty Greene's was cat food.

day_trippr · Sep 3, 2012

MisterTipsy said:
Ooops. I thought Natty Greene's was cat food.

And that closes the loop nicely!

Cheers!

MisterTipsy · Sep 3, 2012

Ok, I'm scratching Natty Green's Saison off my list of beers to try.

Beer should never be mistaken for cat food. Not even the top shelf stuff and certainly not 9 Lives.

day_trippr · Sep 3, 2012

MisterTipsy said:
[...]

Beer should never be mistaken for cat food. Not even the top shelf stuff [...]

LMAO! That is soooooo quotable!

Cheers!

bionara · Jan 15, 2014

I have an all-grain IPA in primary fermentation at the moment which has a faint cat-food type whiff to it. Any ideas what it could be?! It's about 10 days old right now, so still has some way to go, but still...!

Beernik · Jan 15, 2014

What was it John Mallette of Bells said about Hopslam? Oh yeah:

“I’m going to have a beer that we make 4,000 barrels of, one time a year. It flies off the shelf at damn near $20 a six-pack, and you know what it smells like? It smells like your cat ate your weed and then pissed in the Christmas tree.”

Chase it with a Hopslam.

Dynachrome · Jan 15, 2014

How long was it in the fermentor?

Autolysis maybe?

Redbeard5289 · Jan 16, 2014

Are you looking to recreate it at home?

:cross:

zmanzorro · Jan 16, 2014

I had friend unintentionally create something similar before. His girlfriend stirred the wort with a spoon that had earlier been used in some tuna. She didn't fess up until after it was carbonated and they couldn't tell why it tasted like tuna.

Dynachrome · Jan 16, 2014

Redbeard5289 said:
Are you looking to recreate it at home?

:cross:

My try?

Cyclman · Jan 16, 2014

I think we have proven, finally, that you can have autolysis in homebrew.

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