Smelly cider, can it be fixed?

[Tucker4]

Put a pear and strawberry cider kit down wed week ago and it began smelling after about 5 days. Have changed fermenters 3 times and finally kegged this morning at 6am. Didn't smell as bad as it had but wondering if anyone has had the same experience and the end result tastes ok?

 

[manticle]

Sulphur/rotten egg?
Add some nutrient. It should dissipate with time.

 

[Yeastfridge]

+1 on more information. What's smelly smell like? Changing fermenters 3 times may have introduced a bit of oxidation if it had finished fermenting.

 

[TheBaron]

I had exactly the same problem a month back, almost everyone told me to use yeast nutrient, which I'm planning to trial next time.

FYI even though mine definitely smelt very bad for about a week, after leaving it in the bottles for around 4 weeks the smell dissipated and the resulting cider was actually pretty good.

 

[Bribie G]

There's a good yeast nutrient for winemakers that I use for cider, Vintner's Harvest. it's a bit more complex than just using Diammonium phosphate:

 

[Tucker4]

Thanks for the feedback ! Gassed it for 36 hours and purged a few times during the process and majority of the bad Sulphur/Rotten egg smell went. It was ready in the nick of time for my mates 30th and poured after the 36hrs of gassing at 40psi. Kegs nearly empty along with 6 other empty beer kegs so went off alright! Couldn't taste the smell.

Will try that nutrient next time tho! Thanks again

 

[Waltzing Matilda]

Sounds like you got ya self a good ol' fashioned yeast infection?
You know your Mrs can suffer the same itch?