sulphur/egg smell

[zx7rtas]

Put in a Cascade Spicy Ghost Draught ,used a brew booster,has been fermenting for about 3 days ,followed strict sterilisation routine as always but for the last 2 days have noticed a sulphury eggy smell coming out of the air lock.I have never experienced this smell before.Is this normal or am i brewing 23 litres of crap.I cant afford to a failure as i am running out of beer!

[Jacko_NZ]

Did you use the supplied yeast? I think I had the same when I brewed that can up too, and also read other people had the same. TO be honest I wasn't impressed with the brew even after a year, tipped 15 bottles of it last week. Hopefully yours comes out ok for you!

[zx7rtas]

Yep!I used the supplied yeast.These fancy brews seem a bit of hit and miss with me.The first two i made were just the good old off the supermarket shelf Coopers.Everything went wrong to start with(extremely high temps,spilt half the dextrose so had to mix it with ordinary white sugar half an hour later after a emergency dash to the nearest shop),but the end result was more than acceptable.I think the more you can keep things simple the better

[lethaldog]

its obviously a lager yeast and yes its perfectly normal!

[Jacko_NZ]

I had good success with the coopers kits and also brewcraft stuff but the spicy ghost was just not there at all. The cascade porter turned out great after following wassa's honey porter recipe. For my last few brews I started adding some steeped grains, fresh hops, dry malt and safale yeasts and noticed a HUGE difference! Much better beer being produced and to be honest it isn't that difficult once you have a go. I did all those beers with a 6L stock pot and a second pot for some sparge water so you don't need any extra equipment than you probably have in the kitchen already.

I never thought I would be moving up from the kits a year ago but I now have everything to start doing the BIAB all grain method, really looking forward to my first go at that!

Cheers