WLP380 Sulphur

[Theakston Tickler]

Have just sampled my first AG, a weissbier, and although the taste was good it still was giving off a bit of sulphur. Does this calm down after a while?

 

[brewtim]

Mine (in a Hefeweizen) threw alot of Sulphur in the FV for the first 4-5 days, but had gone by bottling time @ 14 days. Does it dissipate if the beer's left standing for a couple of minutes?

How long has it aged ?

 

[pittsy]

your doing something odd here , wlp380 should smell like vanilla ice cream in the fv with creamy banana , if you are getting sulfur you should leave it in fv until it goes before bottling , if bottled it may go away but will take a month or so (i've read) and your wheat should last a good 6 months before going down hill .

 

[Theakston Tickler]

Thanks guys. When fermenting it did smell great but was also giving off the sulphur aroma too, this was at its worst after around 5-6 days and calmed down a bit when I moved it to the second FV and it lost the surface krausen. It spent 13 days in the FVs so I didn't rush the bottling stage but clearly I should have left it for longer in the secondary, bottling, bucket.

The sulphur smell does hang around and distracts from all the good flavours that are going in the glass. Hopefully it'll calm down with a bit of age as it has only been in the bottle a week. I suppose you can't expect perfection with your first all grain brew.

 

[PD]

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I suppose you can't expect perfection with your first all grain brew.

Or your 32nd......

but trying is fun

 

[brewtim]

your doing something odd here , wlp380 should smell like vanilla ice cream in the fv with creamy banana , if you are getting sulfur you should leave it in fv until it goes before bottling , if bottled it may go away but will take a month or so (i've read) and your wheat should last a good 6 months before going down hill .

During FV time, mine went from sulphur, to musty toilet, to banana, to clove and ended up balanced between clove and banana, no ice cream :| the taste changed every time I tried it (every 3 days) and it tasted great at bottling time :thumb:

It's carbonating in the bottles at the moment, can't touch it for another week but gawd knows what changes it will undergo again :whistle: