JeanLucD
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Hey there, the lager that I'm doing at the momment (though not really properly lagering, since its almost summer down here and I don't have the right equipment so its mainly at the lower ale temps) had this real weird funky smell when I put it into secondary, and even coming out of the airlock around the end of fermentation. Now I was a little silly and left it out in the corridor without covering it with a blanket whilst sitting in a plastic container filled with ice packs to try and cool it down - so I wonder whether I've allowed too much light to come into contact with it, thus reacting with the hops and causing skunkyness. At the same time though I noticed that the rubber seal at the top of my better bottle had a slight crack in it and when I squeezed it little stuff came out of it and it smelt quite plasticky. This smell was sorta what I was smelling in the beer but with almost sulphur tones to it - but the thing is: I don't have a fricken clue what the hell a skunk smells like!!! Since I've lived in the southern hemisphere all my life I wouldn't have a clue what skunkyness would smell like - would anyone be able to describe the smell or maybe suggest to me what smells very similar so that I can sorta gauge if this is the problem I'm having... Maybe I'll have to purposefully skunk some of my other beer to see if that's really the problem...
I might even just be a bit paranoid as this is my first lager, and maybe it's just the different smell of the yeast that I haven't gotten a chance to get used to and like.
Oh well, at the momment I'm trying to relax and not worry, and maybe I'll have another homebrew
I might even just be a bit paranoid as this is my first lager, and maybe it's just the different smell of the yeast that I haven't gotten a chance to get used to and like.
Oh well, at the momment I'm trying to relax and not worry, and maybe I'll have another homebrew