rotten eggs smell

[bundyman]

Hello im new to makeing spirits but iv been makeing beer over 10 year, iv just put on a suger wash 6Kg of white suger and 21 Liters of water and used alctec 24hr yeast. TEMP was 24 wen put the yeast in and the SG 1.900 It start to bubble about 1hr after,if that it was goin ok.After about 12hrs it started to give off a rotten eggs smell iv got know idear why...its my 2nd suger wash so far..
The 1st suger wash i put on there was no smell and i sterilised both barrels and everything the same way why has the 2nd one have a rotten egg smell...bundyman

[MacStill]

Cant say I've come across rotten egg smell from my wash before, but if it's still working I would just let it do it's thing :think:

Hopefully someone here can help you out.

Cheers.

[busman]

Hi bundyman, and welcome to the forum.

I don't know what would be causing the smell either, but I would say just let it ferment out and see how it turns out.

What sort of still do you have?

[QLD.Andy]

I cant say I have ever had "rotten egg" smell, maybe thats what the 48 hour smells like

[bundyman]

that ever 1 i will let it keep gooin and she wot will happen the smell has goin now...

I just put aniuther 1 two day the same way the only thing i dune diffrent was i use my sterilizing compound this time not the 1 that cum with t500 and i will let u now how it gose this time..this one workin ok now smell at this point of time....tuch wood..lol

iv got t500 fir my 1st one

[R-sole]

Rotten eggs is sulphur. I believe this comes from stress to the yeast. Try a different yeast or add less sugar.

Copper packing in your still will get rid of some of it, if you have copper packing.