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[beerbaron]

Great new board!!! That green s@#$ will rot your brain anyway.So I brewed a large batch of rye beer at the beginning of april. I typically run a large mash (15 gal) and split the wort into two boil kettles. It usually makes two great beers- 1 big and 1 small. This time I was looking to save time and I mashed in on a friday before work. It sat there for 8 hours of so. When I mashed out the temp was still in the high 140s and the wort tasted and smelled fine. I used dried yeast (safale american ale yeast) and fermented in the mid 60s. When I went to transfer the two batches to 10 gal cornies for secondary both smelled strongly of sewage/vomit. It was all aroma though. When I tasted it, which took some mustering of courage, it tasted fine. Just as a bitter or pale should taste at secondary. So I decided to dry hop it and hope for the best. I used C hops (cant remember what strain now and don't have notes) at a rate of 1 oz per 10 gal. three weeks later, beer is still uncarbonated, and you can not perceive the sewage smell at all. beer is fixed!!!! We are going to drink this one fast though. I don't want the aroma to fade and have the brown shine through.I am not sure where this beer was infected. I could type for 2 pages on how it might have gotten infecalated.I guess I should have started yet another "is my beer ruined thread"anybody want to swap some beer? (just kidding) Cheers,Nick

[ncbeerbrewer]

Welcome Aboard. Better drink up fast before you change your mind.

[zymot]

Never judge a green beer.Beer goes through all kinds of flavor/aroma/mouthfeel twists and turns before it settles itself down. I have had some beers that I was sure time could not save, but I wanted to see what would happen. Every time, it came out fine. Question: Should I dump my beer?Answer: (9 of out 10 times) NO!Time & Patience. The 2 most overlooked ingredients by homebrewers.zymotPs: Never smell what comes out of the airlock and draw any conclusions.

[beerbaron]

I agree. The thing that is strange is that I never smelled a sewage type smell from the airlock. but when I sampled the secondaries it had the sewage smell. I now have both 10 gal cornies cooling and carbonating.