On Rhino Farts . . . .

[Henny]

I think temp is key, not type of apple juice. I had mine fermenting the first day @73ish and was blown away by the Rhino's. Moved it to 65 degree room, smell instantly went away, just appelly goodness.

 

[JarrodH]

I think temp is key, not type of apple juice. I had mine fermenting the first day @73ish and was blown away by the Rhino's. Moved it to 65 degree room, smell instantly went away, just appelly goodness.

Thats what I was thinking.. I moved mine outside (the garage) and it cooled down to about 65 and it was fine. The smell went away after a couple days. It might just be a stage it goes through as well. This is my first batch.

 

[drathbone]

I've got my first batch fermenting right now pitched 11/11

I used Great Value brand 100% apple juice (apples, water and abscorbic acid) with montrachet and 2.5lbs of dextrose. The only shaken bottles were the 2 that I put the dextrose in. It started out in the garage and we got a large temp drop (sub 60 in the garage) so I moved it inside stays around 65-70. No smells yet. I know I'm still early in the process but when does the gas rhino usually start coming around?

 

[drathbone]

UPDATE: I left work today around 11:20am and it smelled fine, inside temp was ~65 degrees. I got home from work, indoor temp was ~70 and a rhino definitely farted in my brew closet.

edit: I will read temp and test the odors again when I wake up and go to the gym, if it smells I'll move to garage (cooler temp) while I'm at the gym and test smell when I get back

 

[HH60gunner]

On my first batch of apfelwein and I used Ed's recipe although I only used 3 gallons of treetop and added 2 gallons of trader joe's unfiltered apple juice. I have the egg smell although it's not rotten just a bit eggy with apple hints. Not unbearable, but not pleasant like it was this morning. I started mine last night, and it's churning away today. I think mine may have been due to the temps being a bit too high. So I've moved the carboy w/ shirt on it into a tub of water, and put the fan on it. Temps are going down and I hope that unpleasant smells will too.

 

[dlgolladay89]

I just made a batch using Member's Mark and Montrachet yeast, shaking only the bottles dextrose was added to, and mine smells like rhino farts.

Same here, although, I've not found a definition of the specific smell of a rhino fart, and someone else mentioned a diabetic rhino. Mine just smells like rhino got a hold of a nice batch of apples and politely only passed a little gas