Charlottesville Area Masters of Real Ale

I got home from work yesterday and the whole house had this funky odor.  At first I thought maybe my cat was puking or something.  Looked around but everything seemed fine.  Then I recognized the odor as rotten eggs... sulfur... Hmmm...  Could it be?  I checked my dunkelweizen I brewed late Saturday night (FYI, fermenting with White Labs 380) and it was foaming like crazy.  Good thing I put a blow-off tube on that 6.5 gallon carboy! I opened up the bucket that the blow-off tube was dumping into and whewwwww!!!!  Damn that stinks!!!  It's been about a year since I made a hefeweizen with Wyeast 3086.  I forgot how stinky these yeasts can be.  Note to self, next time put the carboy in an isolated place to ferment!  Not exactly making a positive case to family and friends that I should brew more often.   

HA!  I know exactly what you are talking about.   I brewed a Kolsch last year and I almost always use White Labs yeast.  On the notes for WLP029, it says “The slight sulfur produced during fermentation will disappear with age and leave a super clean, lager like ale.”  What it should say is that it puts out a sulfur funk that will destroy your whole house for a week.

Honestly, I brewed it about a month after Easter, and I thought that my daughters had taken some of the eggs we had dyed and hidden them somewhere in the house where they were just rotting.  It made you want to shave your nose hairs.

It was terrible but, like the description says, it does go away. 

I found the same thing with the pilsner yeast I was using recently (forgotten which Yeast one it was, but whichever is the Bohemian Pils strain).  At least it does go away.

My Wyeast Saison strain gave off some powerful stank as well. It was a super sulfur bomb and I really hoped it would go away. Not much more to do than maintain appropriate temperatures and wait. So that's what I did. It was actually pretty easy to do nothing.  Thank God, it did fade or I'd have thrown the whole lot in the garden, or all over my neighbor's car. Just testing to see if anyone read this far.

Remind me to always read your entire post and never move next to you.

It would have probably worked well as a paint remover . . .