Burnt Rubber,,,,

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Druncan

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I have four 23L brews in secondary. All same HLME, all same recipe. 1.040 OG Sanitise with SS everywhere. All made on the same day with the same batch of BRY-97 that I equally split between them. Fermented in same room. Each BV has heater set to 20*C. I check with my super IR temp gun (£15.00 LIDL:thumb:) that I have calibrated.
Dry hopped with 7C's,,,, from same sealed frozen packs.
All now at 1.008. Look good and tasted good until today,,,

One of the BV's now has a distinct 'burnt rubber' XS hops flavour.

Dead Yeast Autolising?

Ideas?
Salvage?
Compost?
Cry? :doh:
 
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Ideas?
Salvage?
Compost?
Cry? :doh:

Never had a "burnt rubber" flavour but noticed that one of my favourite options is missing! i.e.

Leave it alone for a month and then have another taste!​

At which point if it's okay then it's okay; and if it isn't go for the last two options above!

In either event, it helps if you can determine what and why it happened (so that you can prevent it happening again) ... :thumb:

... and even better if you can find someone else to blame! :whistle:
 
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