apple odours

[woofy]

After brewing my 1st all grain batch, a brown ale, I noticed some apple odours and an appley taste. Any ideas where this comes from? On the subject of odours, my second batch which I have just sampled from the fermentor had a slight sesame oil smell. Apart from these 2 things everything else seems good.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

After brewing my 1st all grain batch, a brown ale, I noticed some apple odours and an appley taste. Any ideas where this comes from? On the subject of odours, my second batch which I have just sampled from the fermentor had a slight sesame oil smell. Apart from these 2 things everything else seems good.

That's odd...Walker recently mentioned buying a darkish beer (IIRC) that had a sesame flavor to it. I've never noticed it in beer.

As for the appley flavors I would hazard a guess at a high fermentation temperature? This can sometimes impart a cidery taste during fermentation. Do you know what temperature your fermentation took place at?

 

[Walker]

yeah.. i had some Wolaver's Organic Oatmeal Stout. Tasted/smelled a LOT like sesame seed oil. Wretched stuff.

-walker

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

yeah.. i had some Wolaver's Organic Oatmeal Stout. Tasted/smelled a LOT like sesame seed oil. Wretched stuff.

-walker

Weirder yet...I was looking at that last night in the store! It got scratched because it had twist-offs. Went with Duck-Rabbit Nut Brown instead.

 

[sause]

Most of the ales that I have done have had a apple smell to it if it was a amber to somewhat dark ale.

 

[woofy]

Fermentation temp was around 75 degrees. Tomight I opened a 250ml bottle of the same batch (the apppley one was 500ml) and the small one didn't have the apple odour at all. It's only been 2 weeks since bottling so I'm wondering if the small bottle was fully conditioned and the bigger one was a bit young, could this cause an apple odour?

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

How did you prime when bottling? Bottle by bottle, or all at once in the bottling bucket?

 

[woofy]

yup, bottle by bottle

 

[justbrewit]

just curious, why in the world would you prime bottle by bottle??? that sounds like a whole lotta extra work to me. isn't it easier to just prime the whole batch at once??

 

[woofy]

and save time too. (note to self: prime whole batch at once then bottle)

 

[justbrewit]

LMAO first time bottling???

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

yup, bottle by bottle

Well, this could very well result in variations in carbonation from bottle to bottle, especially different size bottles. I think your appley flavors are somehow related to the priming sugar. Next time boil the priming sugar in little bit of water and stir it in to your bottlingl bucket...this will ensure that each bottle gets the same proportion of beer/yeast/priming sugar and keep things consistent.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

LMAO first time bottling???

But he does have something bottled...

 

[justbrewit]

very true! thier shipping my order tomarrow, they take forever shipping to APO addresses. some times being in the army sucks! i'm in germany and i have to ship every thing here. i'll have some thing bottled in about 3 weeks or so

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Does that mean there aren't many hbs's in Germany? That would surprise me, but then again I guess you can't swing a cat without hitting a good, reasonable pint of beer in Germany so maybe there's less necessity!

 

[justbrewit]

thats all fine and good, if you like lagers and pils. i can't stand them myself, i like a good strong, hops ale!!! i like the beer better in england better than the beer here in germany

 

[woofy]

Thats the bad thing, 3rd time bottling. I guess I should have learned by now. Man I'm jealous of you in Germany, I love German beer, I used to live round the corner from Zum Schneider in New York which is a german beer bar and it was the happiest place in the world.

 

[woofy]

Though I live in London now though so I shouldn't complain.

 

[justbrewit]

i'll take a good micro brew over a german beer any day of the week and a 6 pack on sunday

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

You haven't really lived in beer purgatory until you've lived in Sweden. Bad beer, and expensive to add insult to injury.

 

[justbrewit]

as you can see by my up next, i prefer very, very hoppy bitter beer. if i could drink serria nevada big foot barley wine style ale year round, i would!!! its my fav. and if you've never had a black and tan with big foot, your not living yet