Using copper to remove sulphur

[CDS]

I’m currently fermenting a batch of kolsch that I used WLP003 instead of my usual yeast. As predicted this yeast has produced a fair amount of sulphur smell. I know that it will dissipate with conditioning but I need to serve this beer about a week after carbonation. I have read that copper will remove sulphur, so here’s my plan:
I pressure transfer from the fermenter to the keg using this hose. If I sanitize a length of unsheathed copper electric wire and insert it in the hose, will that provide enough exposure to the copper to effectively remove the sulphur?

 

[day_trippr]

I read of someone who dunked a piece of copper pipe in an affected keg something like a dozen times and claimed it made a dramatic improvement, so it's possible that your copper wire scheme could work, too. You'd expect success to be a function of contact and dwell time, so a single strand of wire run the length of your transfer tube is a start, but I think I'd run 2 or 3 separate strands to up the % contact, transfer slowly to increase the dwell time, and see what happens.

Cheers!

 

[Jocky]

I recently had a slightly sulphury hefeweizen, and stirred the keg with a length of copper.

It reduced the sulphur, but I don’t know whether that was down to the copper or the foaming causing it to gas off.

It’s impossible to know how much copper exposure will remove the sulphur from your beer. If I was to do the same thing again I’d be inclined to suspend the copper in the keg and then taste the beer regularly until I was happy.

 

[CDS]

I read of someone who dunked a piece of copper pipe in an affected keg something like a dozen times and claimed it made a dramatic improvement, so it's possible that your copper wire scheme could work, too. You'd expect success to be a function of contact and dwell time, so a single strand of wire run the length of your transfer tube is a start, but I think I'd run 2 or 3 separate strands to up the % contact, transfer slowly to increase the dwell time, and see what happens.

Cheers!

Great idea. Thanks.