Smelly Cider!!

[lloyd]

Hi all

Im new to this site but i must say im very impressed by it already!

My question is ive just brewed my first ever cider kit it was a magnum pear cider kit the lady told my in the shop it was quite popular.

i followed the instuctions and left it to do ferment. 8 days later bubbles had stopped, when i opened the fermenter it smelt really bad like rotton eggs!! i cheeked with hydrometer and reading was 1000 i racked it off and added the pear flavoring which smelt like acid pear drops and added finnings.

i now have 5 gallons of acid egg smelling cider and im wondering if it will be ok and if any body else has encounted a brew like this before. the only thing differant i did was use asda still table water as oppose to tap water (as it tastes very chemicaly here)

Any help would be great

Thanks Lloyd

 

[31bb3]

First of all welcome to the forum
did you steralise all your equipment before you used it ??
using asda water wont be a factor

 

[lloyd]

Hi Thanks for the welcome

All equipment was sterillised with youngs cleaner in the same way i have always done.

Lloyd

 

[31bb3]

Hi Thanks for the welcome

All equipment was sterillised with youngs cleaner in the same way i have always done.

Lloyd

Have you tasted it

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

Might be down to the kit quality, if you like apple cider you should try making some turbo cider, no water required just apple juice :thumb:

John

 

[tubby_shaw]

As 31bb3 said taste it before you do anything drastic :thumb:
Fermentation can smell really bad with some yeasts :sick:
My favourite cider yeast Wlp 775 stinks like a box of farts during and for a while after fermentation, but it does disappear with time :thumb:

 

[lloyd]

just had a taste of the sample i put in the fridge. Tastes like pear drops you know that sort of acid taste, but thats how the flavoring smelt when i added it yesterday. Still a mild egg smell but not like it was and the sample was nice and clear with alot of yeast deposit at the bottom if you know what i mean. had a smell of the fermenter and i belive that the smell has faded abit (or ive just got used to it)

Do you think it would be better left in my out house where its really cold or in my hallway at between 12 and 15 degrees :wha:

 

[31bb3]

outside may be too cold

 

[spbingham]

hi there just signed up to post this, ive just done the magnums strawberry and i can tell you i had this bad eggy smell, ive searched every forum thinking id done something wrong to but all i found out that this is very common with the magnum cider kits, supposebly the smell does fade and the taste improves with time , guess only time will tell, let me know how it turns out anyways, ill let you know how mine goes

 

[BarnsleyBrewer]

hi there just signed up to post this, ive just done the magnums strawberry and i can tell you i had this bad eggy smell, ive searched every forum thinking id done something wrong to but all found found out that this is very common with the magnum cider kits, supposebly the smell does fade and the taste improves with time , guess only time will tell, let me know how it turns out anyways, ill let you know how mine goes

Good luck with the brew and welcome to THBF. :

John

 

[lloyd]

Hi spbingham Welcome to the site.

Thanks for your info at least i know its a common thing! my hopes have been raised.

The smell does seem to be easeing. They say all good things come to those who wait
Im gona rack it off to a clean fermentor and leave it for a month or so and see what that does

keep me posted on yours as i nearly choose the strawberry and would like to do that next

 

[spbingham]

just an update mines been in the barrel nearly a week now, i just took a little out in a glass and the eggy smells still there and it tastes really sour, think im gonna leave for a while see if theres any change if there isnt ill throw it i guess. ive just got a couple of DJs off my dad so im gonna put some Turbo Cider on, give that ago

 

[dmrevis]

This is interesting reading. I started a youngs brew buddy cider kit and it smells a little eggy too. Fermentation almost finished. I tried some tonight and the taste doesnt seem to come through but i was unsure whether to bother bottling it if its going to stink. So the common view is that the smell will fade as it matures?

 

[chiefstoker]

I did a brew buddy cider kit when i started, it isnt a patch on TC
The smell does disappear in time but not totally, leave it for 6weeks before drinking really helps, but still tastes like a white wine/cider combo imo

: cs

 

[dmrevis]

I may stick to a TC from now on.

 

[chiefstoker]

Get yourself to lidls, i bought 40 1.5lt cartoons for 20 sovs :thumb:

 

[samurailord]

I recently made a Magnum's Pear Cider, and it too had an 'eggy' smell at first, but I bottled it with a teaspoon of sugar per bottle, and left it for a couple of months.

This weekend saw me finishing off the last of it - the smell went away, and it was a very nice cider.

I hope yours eventually turns out as nice as mine did.