l3agel
Active Member
I brewed up my first attempt at a trippel a little over a month ago. Numerous things went poorly with brew day primarily that the manifold in my MLT came loose during the vorlauf and lauter...this however is not my concern. I still ended up with a good tasting yet lower OG wort going into the fermenter and pitched my 1.5L shaken starter into it.
I put the fermenter in my basement with a wet t shirt to control temps and got the least active fermentation I have ever witnessed. I estimate that the temp did not exceed 70F during the first two days and I left the t shirt dry after this.
I noticed a sulphur smell coming from the airlock about 1.5-2 weeks in and warmed the fermenter hoping the yeast would clean things up.
I still have the smell although it has kind of transformed into the sulphury smell of a winery if anyone knows what I mean. There's still an eggyness to it which has kept me from bottling since I don't want to trap the smell in the beer.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of this? I thought maybe feeding the yeast some nutrient and sugar might wake them up and get them to scrub it out, does this sound like a bad idea at this point? I would like to bottle in the next two weeks but maybe I just need to be patient...
I put the fermenter in my basement with a wet t shirt to control temps and got the least active fermentation I have ever witnessed. I estimate that the temp did not exceed 70F during the first two days and I left the t shirt dry after this.
I noticed a sulphur smell coming from the airlock about 1.5-2 weeks in and warmed the fermenter hoping the yeast would clean things up.
I still have the smell although it has kind of transformed into the sulphury smell of a winery if anyone knows what I mean. There's still an eggyness to it which has kept me from bottling since I don't want to trap the smell in the beer.
Does anyone have any ideas on how to get rid of this? I thought maybe feeding the yeast some nutrient and sugar might wake them up and get them to scrub it out, does this sound like a bad idea at this point? I would like to bottle in the next two weeks but maybe I just need to be patient...