Hello all,
Have a few brews under my belt, but have a problem I haven't seen before so I thought I'd post here.
My APA attempt from the weekend before last is still bubbling through the blowoff tube slowly after about 13 days. This wouldn't bother me so much, but yeast/trub cake I've pulled off the bottom and samples I've pulled from it smell STRONGLY of cabbage and sulfur, with a hint of green apple thrown in there for good measure. It's... a very off-putting odor. Which is a shame, because you can still smell the citrusy Mosaic hops behind that horrible smell.
I took a quick peek in the fermenter today with a flashlight, and nothing looks terribly out of the ordinary, normal looking yeast encrusted on the sides, still a bit of foam at the top.
Does this sound like just an unhealthy yeast pitch, an 'invisible' infection, or something else?
Have a few brews under my belt, but have a problem I haven't seen before so I thought I'd post here.
My APA attempt from the weekend before last is still bubbling through the blowoff tube slowly after about 13 days. This wouldn't bother me so much, but yeast/trub cake I've pulled off the bottom and samples I've pulled from it smell STRONGLY of cabbage and sulfur, with a hint of green apple thrown in there for good measure. It's... a very off-putting odor. Which is a shame, because you can still smell the citrusy Mosaic hops behind that horrible smell.
I took a quick peek in the fermenter today with a flashlight, and nothing looks terribly out of the ordinary, normal looking yeast encrusted on the sides, still a bit of foam at the top.
Does this sound like just an unhealthy yeast pitch, an 'invisible' infection, or something else?