skunkfunk
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I brewed a weizenbock not too long ago, and some weird stuff is happening. I bottled it about 12-13 days ago. Last night, I stuck one in the fridge for a couple of hours, and when I opened it, the foam very slowly creeped up the bottle. I poured it before it got out of hand, and the head was a bit tall, but not alarming.
The smell was somewhat unpleasant, and the taste was as well. Reminded me of a single bottle from a few batches ago that tasted badly (the rest of that batch was fine.)
Tasted about like it smelled. Beer, drinkable, but unpleasant. I got out my refractometer to check the gravity, and it was lower than when I bottled it. Brix 10 upon bottling, 9.2 now. According to the spreadsheet, that means the gravity was 1.019 when bottling, and now is 1.016. I degassed it before checking.
Well, that didn't seem right, so I checked it with the hydrometer - 1.021. Now, according to the calculator, with brix 9.2 and gravity 1.021, the OG was approximately 1.059, while what I measured pre-fermentation (with refractometer) was 1.072.
I fermented it with WLP351, and the first few days I got horrible rhino fart smells. I'm told this is normal with this yeast. Fermented at ambient temperature 63-66 degrees.
tl;dr: My beer is a bit skunky, and my gravity readings seem weird. Do I need to dump it?
The smell was somewhat unpleasant, and the taste was as well. Reminded me of a single bottle from a few batches ago that tasted badly (the rest of that batch was fine.)
Tasted about like it smelled. Beer, drinkable, but unpleasant. I got out my refractometer to check the gravity, and it was lower than when I bottled it. Brix 10 upon bottling, 9.2 now. According to the spreadsheet, that means the gravity was 1.019 when bottling, and now is 1.016. I degassed it before checking.
Well, that didn't seem right, so I checked it with the hydrometer - 1.021. Now, according to the calculator, with brix 9.2 and gravity 1.021, the OG was approximately 1.059, while what I measured pre-fermentation (with refractometer) was 1.072.
I fermented it with WLP351, and the first few days I got horrible rhino fart smells. I'm told this is normal with this yeast. Fermented at ambient temperature 63-66 degrees.
tl;dr: My beer is a bit skunky, and my gravity readings seem weird. Do I need to dump it?