Hello all,
I'm glad I've found this forum since my wife and I are first time homebrewers. We are making a variation on a ginger spice beer recipie in the AHA magazine. Our bucket, airlock, and hydrometer were sanitized in Straight A and while we didn't boil all 5 gallons together, we did boil all of the water added to the beer immediately before pouring it into the fermentation vessel (5 gallon Ale Pail). We didn't have a wort cooler so we let the bucket sit in the bathtub full of cold water until it got down to 80 F. We pitched room temp White Labs German Ale/Kolsch yeast straight from the tube and got no reaction after 2 days. At this point I went and got an American Ale dried yeast and pitched it. Within 5 hours we had a bubbling frequncy of 1-2 per minute in the airlock. This rate has persisted for the last 3 days, but the airlock has a bit of a sulfury funk coming from it. It still smell like beer for the most part, but their is a distinct sulfur odor in their too. Should I just wait it out or has some nasty bug ruined us for good? Any suggestions on what to do?

Thanks All
Forum: Homebrewing | Author: edds5p0
Posted: January 1, 2009, 12:06 pm

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