About a five weeks ago I kegged a two hearted clone based on a recipe from this forum. Going into the secondary for dry hopping the beer tasted and smelled very good. After a week in the secondary dry hopping it tasted decent, but has a faint off smell that I couldn't quite nail down. After three weeks I poured a glass. The smell is worse. It really manifests itself in the foam as it seems to release the odor. There is an off taste, but as noticeable as the smell in the foam. The only description I can give the smell is a pungent stench. It smells nothing like the centennials I put in the secondary for dry hopping. In fact, there is no trace of a centennial scent. I threw in a half ounce or so of cascades that I had left over in an attempt to cover up the stench, but a week or so later that's not working out too well.
All that said, the beer itself shows no outward signs of infection - no weird growth, etc. I was very cautious about my sanitation all the way through kegging. I'm trying to track down the culprit here. Any chance the hops at the secondary could have been bad? Or, am I looking at an infection that made its way in in spite of my best sanitation efforts?
All that said, the beer itself shows no outward signs of infection - no weird growth, etc. I was very cautious about my sanitation all the way through kegging. I'm trying to track down the culprit here. Any chance the hops at the secondary could have been bad? Or, am I looking at an infection that made its way in in spite of my best sanitation efforts?