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A distinctive, typically pleasant smell. Can be used to refer to the aroma addition of hops which is a late hop addition within the last 5 min of the boil that contributes the most to the aroma of a finished beer.

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Rotten eggs aroma from fermenting beer

Many lager yeasts throw off sulphur compounds during the ferment. The key is to be patient and not rush the fermentation process. If you have fermented at the right temp with the right amount of yea …
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Is a sweet aroma normal?

The combo of cascade and only a few days into fermentation would most certainly still give you a sweet aroma. …
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Tea-like aroma in my beer

It might be a green bell pepper to garlic like aroma (that seems tea-ish to me mixed with wort, at least in my mind). … Those flavors can be common in Simcoe as well as the dreaded cat pee aroma/taste. It might fade with time, again it sort of depends on the quality of those Simcoes. …
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Using a hop back before bottling?

More aroma, in this case, is a recipe issue not a process issue. Using a couple regimens of dry hopping will get the aroma where you want it. …
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What hop should I use to get Fuller's IPA hop taste and aroma?

I wasn't aware that Fullers made an IPA. I couldn't find it at the Fullers website. Fullers being a UK based brewery I'd suggest looking into East Kent Goldings hops, and Fuggles hops. Both are UK …
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help: Beer smells bad

Knowing now that you used Nottingham yeast, it sounds contaminated to me. But as others have suggested I normally would let it ferment out to finish and then taste it. You could even test bottle a c …
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Why does my lactobacillus batch smell so bad?

Addressing your homefermentative comment, how do you know this Yakult pitch is a single strain of microbes? It could have some other strains to a smaller % and they are giving you your off smell. Th …
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Hard cider funky taste

Making products like this with bread yeast is a crap shoot. Bread yeast isn't always as pure as brewers yeast. Its possible to pick up a contaminant that make the cider taste bad. More likely though …
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Using nuts for beer aroma

Too much oil from real nuts, IMO. I'd say to get some hazelbut extract and use that. You'll have to titrate it in a little at a time to get to where you want to be. Pour yourself 12oz and drop it in …
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