sictransit701
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I recently posted about how I had brewed and bottled a beer that ended up with a peanut butter aroma. I got 1 response. If you do a google search, there are many other posts about homebrewers getting a peanut butter aroma in their beers, and nobody really knows what it is.
When I open my beer and pour it into a bottle I get that peanut butter aroma. I smell the yeast in the bottle and I get that peanut butter aroma. It’s not just me. I have shared it with some friends who smell the same thing. I suspect it is the yeast. I used Imperial stefon yeast in a dunkelweizen. I believe it’s the Weihenstephan yeast. Spelling? It was fermented at 65*F. Fermented at 65*F for 1 week. Raised to 70* for another 2 weeks. The recipe is
6 lbs wheat
3 lbs Munich
3 lbs Vienna
0.5 lb special b
0.25 lb pale chocolate
0.25 lb crystal 40
1.5 oz tettang 60 min
Anyways, I just opened a bottle of three philosophers ale and I get peanut butter aroma. I smelled the bottle and I get peanut butter. It’s like Reese’s. My glasses are clean. My peanut butter is in the pantry. Please tell me my nose still works. Every description I find online about this beer says toffee, raisin, brown sugar, and dark fruits aroma. I get some of that, but it’s mainly peanut butter. I believe it’s a yeast thing, but I cannot find in any beer literature anything about peanut butter aroma.
Please respond.
When I open my beer and pour it into a bottle I get that peanut butter aroma. I smell the yeast in the bottle and I get that peanut butter aroma. It’s not just me. I have shared it with some friends who smell the same thing. I suspect it is the yeast. I used Imperial stefon yeast in a dunkelweizen. I believe it’s the Weihenstephan yeast. Spelling? It was fermented at 65*F. Fermented at 65*F for 1 week. Raised to 70* for another 2 weeks. The recipe is
6 lbs wheat
3 lbs Munich
3 lbs Vienna
0.5 lb special b
0.25 lb pale chocolate
0.25 lb crystal 40
1.5 oz tettang 60 min
Anyways, I just opened a bottle of three philosophers ale and I get peanut butter aroma. I smelled the bottle and I get peanut butter. It’s like Reese’s. My glasses are clean. My peanut butter is in the pantry. Please tell me my nose still works. Every description I find online about this beer says toffee, raisin, brown sugar, and dark fruits aroma. I get some of that, but it’s mainly peanut butter. I believe it’s a yeast thing, but I cannot find in any beer literature anything about peanut butter aroma.
Please respond.