Dry Age Smell

Well, Sir, if that meat was rotten you could not have stayed in the same room with it!!!

Dry aged beef indeed smells different – yes strong beefy and some call it an earthy smell, others say a nutty smell while others say it has a musty smell like that of expensive bleu cheese.

My only thought is if you over trimmed it cutting off the best part of dry aged beef! If you trimmed clear back to what I call “grocery store red” you wasted a lot of delicious meat!
Ron