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Is banana smell from high temps strong?

Willards

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I am making the Northern Brewer Nut Brown Ale kit, and I pitched at 73 degrees with the Nottingham dry yeast it came with.  Fermentation got a slow start, but it was steadily chugging away after 12 hours.  I noticed my fermometer read 70 degrees for the first 12 or so hours of fermentation, then lowered to 66 by the next day.  I've heard that temperatures of 70+ can give off a banana flavor.  I can't tell if the smell from the airlock is banana or just generally sweet.

Would it be a strong banana flavor if the temperature was too high? And should the smell from the airlock be somewhat fruity for a malt-forward brown ale with English yeast?

Thanks in advance!
 
The only time I ever had banana flavors was when the fermentation got up to 75.  At 70 you should be fine.
 
I'm mostly used to using us-04 and us-05, which have given me a hoppy smell from the airlock, even when making malty brews.  Are English ale yeasts like Notty supposed to have a fruity aroma from the airlock?
 
Are English ale yeasts like Notty supposed to have a fruity aroma from the airlock?

I have no idea.  The lagers I've been making with Saflager S-23 smell terrible when fermenting.  But that's normal.  Similarly when I made a hefe with a wheat yeast it also smelled terrible, right down to the moment it went into a keg. But it tasted great.

At 70 you're not going to get a strong banana flavor. At 73 possibly.  At 75 probably. At 78 for sure. At 70? I wouldn't worry about it.

 
Nottingham is pretty clean for an ale yeast, but I usually keep it at 63/64F.  Its range is 57 to 70F, so you're probably fine. 
 
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