Holy DMS, Batman!
I was testing gravity (dropped 29 points in 9 days at 48F, still going), and I gave it a wiff. WOW! I've THOUGHT I smelled hints of DMS before; the classic "cooked corn" or "canned corn" smell. No. No this was something much more dramatic.
It tasted fine, a bit sweet still (it's about 3/5 of possible attentuation now), but malty and tastey. But... that smell.
Anyway, I reviewed my notes and pondered it while I scrubbed bottles and hunted out a CO2 leak, and I think I may have only boiled for 60 minutes. It was my third batch in a single day (don't worry, I'm not insane, one batch was apfelwein, the other two were AG batches). I was tired, and I think I saw the boil and tossed in my hops and set the timer without remembering that it should have been 30 minutes of boil before hops.
Live and learn.
I'm about to head out of town for 10 days, so it will have plenty of time to finish attenuating while I'm gone. I may have to serve the beer in late August, early September with a side of corn to disguise it, though!
I was testing gravity (dropped 29 points in 9 days at 48F, still going), and I gave it a wiff. WOW! I've THOUGHT I smelled hints of DMS before; the classic "cooked corn" or "canned corn" smell. No. No this was something much more dramatic.
It tasted fine, a bit sweet still (it's about 3/5 of possible attentuation now), but malty and tastey. But... that smell.
Anyway, I reviewed my notes and pondered it while I scrubbed bottles and hunted out a CO2 leak, and I think I may have only boiled for 60 minutes. It was my third batch in a single day (don't worry, I'm not insane, one batch was apfelwein, the other two were AG batches). I was tired, and I think I saw the boil and tossed in my hops and set the timer without remembering that it should have been 30 minutes of boil before hops.
Live and learn.
I'm about to head out of town for 10 days, so it will have plenty of time to finish attenuating while I'm gone. I may have to serve the beer in late August, early September with a side of corn to disguise it, though!