Overpitching and sulphurous smell + taste

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GuitarBob

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I recently made some 2 gallon all-grain batches, but I used the entire nottingham yeast pack for each recipe. Each of these packs are designed for 5 gallons of beer, so I used 2.5X has much yeast has the recipes call for. 2 weeks later the beer in primary still smells and tastes somewhat sulphery.

I've never had this problem with any previous batches of beer, and I'm wondering is there just a lot more yeast floating in suspension then would normally be, and I'm just tasting that, or am I tasting some sort of off flavor caused by pitching too much yeast?
 
What type of beer is it?

In my pale ale, when the yeast is still pretty heavy in suspension it tasted quite bready...


English brown ale. Should I try cooling it down to make the yeast fall out of suspension? What if I already bottled it, because I needed to free up a fermenter?
 

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