by zippytheclown » Sun Dec 15, 2013 9:18 pm
A couple of days ago I put down my first TPW. I was lead to believe these take two weeks plus to finish, so I put down a turbo wash as well. I washed out my FV with plain bleach and left to soak, as well as all my utensils, rinsed out then I followed the instructions to the letter for triple distilled turbo yeast, added carbon and waited, after watching it for 2 days, it did nothing, I stirrred it a couple of times, no result. I thought I musta killed it, maybe didn't rinse the vessel properly, so I thought "why not" and pitched some lowans in there. Couple hours later it was frothing up on top, taday it's going nuts, my airlock is going like a machine gun, but there is a very faint smell of sulphur coming out of the airlock. I pulled the lid, mix is fizzing away like mad, and a faint wiff of sulphur as well as the smell of fermented alcohol. anybody got any ideas what the smell might be, and is it worth me seeing this wash through to term or should I abort and throw it down the drain?