Beavdowg
Well-Known Member
I brewed an extract batch on Sunday. It is a honey lager but made with California Lager yeast that can ferment in the 70*s range. Cooled it with an IC and racked it shortly after into a plastic ale pale. I pitched the yeast after racking and saw bubbles by Monday morning. I don't have a very consistently cool place in my house so I put the pale in a room off my garage that was staying about 70* during the day. My wife told me yesterday that it got up to about 75* in that room yesterday. It was 75* when I got home last night. By the time I went to bed last night it was back down to 71*. This morning it was just under 71*. Anyway, there was a nice sweet smell coming from the fermentor when it started fermenting but this morning(Tuesday morning) there is a sulfury smell from the fermentation lock. I used iodophore solution to soak stuff in and whatever was too big to fit into my cooler filled with an iodophore solution I sprayed with the same iodophore solution out of a spray bottle.
I don't every remember that sulfury smell coming from my fermentor before(granted it was 12 years ago last I brewed). Is my beer ruined or is this a normal phase of fermenting?
thanks
I don't every remember that sulfury smell coming from my fermentor before(granted it was 12 years ago last I brewed). Is my beer ruined or is this a normal phase of fermenting?
thanks