Farty Smell in Secondary

[Phreedmind]

Brewed a two hearted extract clone. This is my sixth batch and this was the first time i let the beer sit for two weeks before racking to secondary. Usually i rack or keg a day after the airlock slows way down. It sat in primary for two weeks and then I racked it to secondary for further maturation. I nailed the suggested ABV on the recipe and a sample taste was delicious. It has now been 10 days in secondary and I just threw some hops in today for a 3 day dry hop and when I smelled the beer in the Carboy it did not smell all that great. Kind of like a stale fart to be honest. I don't think it's oxidation because I even purged the secondary vessel with co2 before racking. Is the beer ruined? Is that smell a bad sign? Or am I overreacting.... Thanks for the help

 

[TangoHotel]

Brewed a two hearted extract clone. This is my sixth batch and this was the first time i let the beer sit for two weeks before racking to secondary. Usually i rack or keg a day after the airlock slows way down. It sat in primary for two weeks and then I racked it to secondary for further maturation. I nailed the suggested ABV on the recipe and a sample taste was delicious. It has now been 10 days in secondary and I just threw some hops in today for a 3 day dry hop and when I smelled the beer in the Carboy it did not smell all that great. Kind of like a stale fart to be honest. I don't think it's oxidation because I even purged the secondary vessel with co2 before racking. Is the beer ruined? Is that smell a bad sign? Or am I overreacting.... Thanks for the help

Does it taste like farts? If no, drink it. If yes, stop farting in your beer. Its probably fine. Drink up. Rdwahahb. In fact, have 2, just to be safe.

 

[Phreedmind]

So, no insight? Usually when I pop the airlock off of secondary there are great aromas coming off the beer. This time it was pretty off...

 

[b-boy]

I vote this as best thread title ever....

Some yeasts give off a little sulfur smell. What yeast did you use?

 

[Phreedmind]

1052 wyeast

 

[HoppyDaze]

you're a farty smell in the secondary...

 

[marvinsjunk]

I think it's pretty normal to drive off some sulfur compounds during fermentation. I caught a flatulatious whiff from the airlock of my 4 day centennial blonde today. It's no worse then what I deal with from my wife every night so I'm not worried.

 

[HoppyDaze]

I think it's pretty normal to drive off some sulfur compounds during fermentation. I caught a flatulatious whiff from the airlock of my 4 day centennial blonde today. It's no worse then what I deal with from my wife every night so I'm not worried.

I doubt she would appreciate you call her your "wide"

 

[marvinsjunk]

Yeah, really glad she's not on this forum.

 

[Glynn]

I assume you meant wyeast 1056 American ale. Once you bottle or keg it its not going to be anything like it was in your secondary. I wouldn't worry about it to much

 

[Phreedmind]

Yeah, 1056. Guess I'll just have to wait and see when I tap it. It just seemed like the first five batches I did smelled in the fermenter the same as they did at serving time.

 

[Hjandersen]

Bump.. How did this batch turn out?