Dabbed_Out_Brewing
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So, my American stout is about 2 weeks into fermentation. The other day i went to make a small initial addition of 1 oz coffee beans, 1 oz, cacao nibs, and a vanilla bean. When i took the rubber stopper out of the carboy, i picked up an odd almost rubbery or plastic smell. The stopper i was using was a standard offwhite almost yellowish stopper. I smelled the rubber stopper and it smelled strongly of what i was picking up in my beer. i immediately closed the carboy and ran down to by local home brew shop and grabbed one of the pure white stoppers that i am using in my IPA. The smell coming from the beer is seeming to dissipate day by day. My question is could this have been from the stopper? is this a smell coming from the yeast in early fermentation? should this completely vanish when the beer starts to condition a bit more? I plan on leaving it in there for another 2 weeks before kegging it and leaving the keg an additional week. A week before the keg i have another larger addition of the same ingredients so that may help bring the flavor up as well. thoughts?