Wine kit sulphur smell

[Flan]

Hi all, i started a winExpert california enigma reserve kit on sat 20th, it started a slow bubble after 24hrs and on day 3 started bubbling like mad day 4 today 24th i came down and noticed a fairly strong sulphur smell almost eggy, has anyone experienced this before? I’ve only done 1 other wine kit and don’t recall a smell from that. TIA. Flan.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Hi all, i started a winExpert california enigma reserve kit on sat 20th, it started a slow bubble after 24hrs and on day 3 started bubbling like mad day 4 today 24th i came down and noticed a fairly strong sulphur smell almost eggy, has anyone experienced this before? I’ve only done 1 other wine kit and don’t recall a smell from that. TIA. Flan.

Did you put some yeast nutrient in?

I think they supposedly come with it included but it doesn't hurt to put more in.

I've had this problem when I forgot to add it. I had to splash rack the wine and use finings to get rid of the sulphur.

 

[dmtaylor]

All wines release sulfur. This is very normal. You can swirl, stir, or whisk the wine to help remove both sulfur and the acidic carbonation.

 

[Flan]

All wines release sulfur. This is very normal. You can swirl, stir, or whisk the wine to help remove both sulfur and the acidic carbonation.

Thanks dm, i will try it

 

[ChrisT]

I've had this happen to me, strangley only recently though, the finished product has been fine. The first time it happened, I thought that I didn't clean (sanitise and sterilise) my buckets suffiently well, so went totally overboard on the next clean but it happened again shortly afterwards.

So as @dmtaylor says I'm taking it as "normal" but infrequent action. Hope it turns out OK?

 

[Flan]

Did you put some yeast nutrient in?

I think they supposedly come with it included but it doesn't hurt to put more in.

I've had this problem when I forgot to add it. I had to splash rack the wine and use finings to get rid of the sulphur.

Thanks Tess, i added some nutrient on day 4 as i forgot to add more early on. The smell is not as bad now and is less eggy now it just smells like a normal ‘slightly gassy’ smell now so hopefully it’ll settle down a bit, it’s still bubbling away like mad so i may give it a stir once a day. Thanks for your help.

 

[Tess Tickle's Brewery]

Thanks Tess, i added some nutrient on day 4 as i forgot to add more early on. The smell is not as bad now and is less eggy now it just smells like a normal ‘slightly gassy’ smell now so hopefully it’ll settle down a bit, it’s still bubbling away like mad so i may give it a stir once a day. Thanks for your help.

Great. Stirring the nutrient in would have helped release some of the sulphur too and helped the yeast if they were stressed.

 

[Flan]

Well the sulphur smell has subsided and is back to a more normal fruity fermenting smell now. It’s been a quick ferment as it’s just 7 days now and its gone from 1,094 to .994 so I’ll leave it another week just to make sure it’s finished properly before i move it on, thanks for all your help and advice, this is why i love this forum.