It smells like a fairy has sprinkled pure wonder and amazement into my airlock. This is my first AG batch and NOTHING I have done can compare. Pumped to get this one into the bottles.
This thread makes me want to go home and smell my airlock....and I don't even have anything fermenting right now....I might have a problem. A glorious, wonderful problem.
I have a bunch of batches on the go with different yeasts. Love to see how they give off different smells, even batches of the same thing (e.g., two Apfelweins with different yeasts).
This just reminds me of a post that I read a while back, where the guy opened his fermentation chamber, and took a big whiff. Needless to say he almost passed out from all the C02. lol.
One time during a very furious fermentation, my daughter, who is 16-months old, would walk up to the bucket, tilt the airlock to her, and sniff the air coming out. She was obsessed with doing this. Time to finish my fermentation chamber.