Pear drop esters smell in Admirals reserve.

[Operator]

Hello all. I'm just bottling my woodfordes which has been in the fv for 18 days due to lack of tine at home. The fg is 1012 but there is a strong pear drop smell. When I started it I noticed the fish tank heater was set too high and dropped it back down to 18 - 20 c , I've not hard this particular issue in any previous brews, is it likely to be an infection or caused by too high a temperature during the inital fermentation? It tastes ok, for this stage so I'm bottling anyway, I'd hate to waste all thy precious beer.

Any thoughts are,as always, gratefully recieved.

[EoinMag]

Temperature was most likely the cause. Leave it conditioning in the cold for a few months once bottled or kegged, it might get rid of some of the off flavours, chances are though that it's not gonna go away. Lesson learned.

[mysterio]

Beer always smells quite pungent out of the fermenter, go ahead and bottle it.