For the first time in about 20 brews I am getting an off/sour odour emanating from fermenter. (kit brew)
it's not over-powering but can smell it outside the laundry/fermenter room.
Call me a dill but when the Brewcraft shop fella offered me the saflager yeast for 2 bucks because it was 'near its use-by-date', I checked that it said 'July 2010' and pocketed my 'bargain'.
Methinks it might not be a coincidence that I used the 'oldish' yeast and now have the smell??
Am I right?
Will the brew be OK?......or is it cactus?
I currently bubbling away at 16 degrees .....was pitched 48 hrs ago.........was 24 degrees when it started............
it's not over-powering but can smell it outside the laundry/fermenter room.
Call me a dill but when the Brewcraft shop fella offered me the saflager yeast for 2 bucks because it was 'near its use-by-date', I checked that it said 'July 2010' and pocketed my 'bargain'.
Methinks it might not be a coincidence that I used the 'oldish' yeast and now have the smell??
Am I right?
Will the brew be OK?......or is it cactus?
I currently bubbling away at 16 degrees .....was pitched 48 hrs ago.........was 24 degrees when it started............