Smells

[Simon Morris]

What should my all grain bitter smell like during fermentation??

 

[ryser2k]

Haha I knew what your question was going to be before I even read it. It shouldn't smell all that good. All that CO2 coming off from the yeast tends to give you some funky smells. I wouldn't worry too much about the smell until you're ready to bottle. If you've got the brew in your bottling bucket and it still smells nasty, then I might be a little curious.

Whatever you do, don't stick your head into your fermenter and take a big whiff after a week of fermentation... it will take a long time for you to forget that smell

 

[Simon Morris]

will this go away with time, its got a really strange smell acidy or something, it should be finished fermenting in about a week.

 

[uglygoat]

taste some when you rack it to the secondary

my mouth is a much better guage of how my beer is doing then my nose

 

[Janx]

The smell during fermentation is not at all indicative of the smaell of the finished brew. You can tell if infections are present from smell, but a bad smell doesn't mean a bad beer necessarily...remember what the yeast are doing in there