oakburner
Well-Known Member
Late last year in amongst several pales, and IPA,s i brewed a really simple pale (80% BB pale, 10% med crystal, 10% wheat malt and used all Nelson Sav as late additions(pellets) and dry hop (whole). After four days I had the most horrid oily leathery, almost shearing shed stench.....that I have never encountered before -or since.
This batch was to be the first, and I hope only batch I have ever dumped.
Last night I went to throw 20g each of centennial, cascade and riwaka at small test batch of black IPA, and when i was cleaning up, I picked up a stray hop pellet from my floor and when i crushed it and smelled it.....BOOM......finally discovered that horrible sheepy lanolin smell again.
I traced it to the the Riwaka pack, which is a brand new $15 90g pack which I opened last night.
To confirm, I just dropped single pellets from several varieties from my freezer into shot glasses, and poured half a shot of room temp water on each......the unpleasant stench from the riwaka is unmistakable.
I am glad to now have discovered what happened to my NS pale batch last year.....
Somehow both of these NZ varieties have this overpowering character...
Has anyone else faced this? I am very disappointed as the info on riwaka talks about huge citrus and hop aroma......will have to toss them out.....
This batch was to be the first, and I hope only batch I have ever dumped.
Last night I went to throw 20g each of centennial, cascade and riwaka at small test batch of black IPA, and when i was cleaning up, I picked up a stray hop pellet from my floor and when i crushed it and smelled it.....BOOM......finally discovered that horrible sheepy lanolin smell again.
I traced it to the the Riwaka pack, which is a brand new $15 90g pack which I opened last night.
To confirm, I just dropped single pellets from several varieties from my freezer into shot glasses, and poured half a shot of room temp water on each......the unpleasant stench from the riwaka is unmistakable.
I am glad to now have discovered what happened to my NS pale batch last year.....
Somehow both of these NZ varieties have this overpowering character...
Has anyone else faced this? I am very disappointed as the info on riwaka talks about huge citrus and hop aroma......will have to toss them out.....