chrisherberte
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I've been looking for English style dried yeast suited to milds & browns.
s04 is good but it's not exactly right for the style, little too clean and dry. I didn't bother with Nottingham which left me with Windsor but I'm still just not sure about it.
From what i've read there are mixed opinions in general about this yeast but is it normal to get a funky-swampy-septic stink and flavour in the young beer, even a week after kegging?
This is the second time using Windsor with exactly the same result. Everything else is great, esters, malty, medium attenuation, etc. It is slow to flocculate (contradictory to what it says on the pack) but i can live with that - but the funny stink!? I would be drinking the beer by now if it was s04 or us05.
Is it normal and/or does it go away?
s04 is good but it's not exactly right for the style, little too clean and dry. I didn't bother with Nottingham which left me with Windsor but I'm still just not sure about it.
From what i've read there are mixed opinions in general about this yeast but is it normal to get a funky-swampy-septic stink and flavour in the young beer, even a week after kegging?
This is the second time using Windsor with exactly the same result. Everything else is great, esters, malty, medium attenuation, etc. It is slow to flocculate (contradictory to what it says on the pack) but i can live with that - but the funny stink!? I would be drinking the beer by now if it was s04 or us05.
Is it normal and/or does it go away?