I have in bottles a batch smelling like chemicals or rubber. I'm thinking keep it a while, and check if the smell fade out. Is this possible? Or I'm just wasting my time with this batch?
As side note, this batch is, from a parti-gyle, a second run. The first run, a porter, is OK.
Topic partigyle aroma contamination homebrew
Category Mac
You're probably out of luck, although if it fermented fine then it won't hurt you or make you sick. (A reason beer was drank hundreds of years ago.) So you're probably going to end up dumping it. An alternate would be to extract the alcohol out of it via distillation.
The rubber smell could be autolysis - I've experienced it a couple of times when I left beer in primary for a long time. It has a kind of rubbery unpleasant aroma and the taste is the same.
I left the keg for 6 months and it didn't improve so I threw it.
RDWHAHB. Unless you're confident that you had dirty fermentor, ride it out.
You've already invested the time and $$ in the brew day, might as well keg/bottle and see how it turns out.
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