This has been posted about a thousand times but all have been "wouldn't this be awesome" and I haven't seen a * scientific discussion * of this: http://file.scirp.org/Html/1-2100535_33912.htm
Firstly, I don't see this as even possible:
Can s.cerevisiae even survive in the stomach?
Assuming it can survive and ferment in the human body, what is the potential alcohol in a meal? (do we consume enough sugar at one time to intoxicate someone?)
Is it possible for a yeast to be fast acting enough to metabolize the sugars into enough alcohol to cause intoxication before the human body breaks them down?
And assuming it is true, what does this mean?
Are we all in danger of this affliction?
If this strain of s.cerevisiae can survive in stomach pH its probably immune to acid sanitizers like starsan. How long before this escapes into the wild and starts contaminating breweries and infecting us all?
What are the possibilities of a resistant mutant strain of yeast rising from the huge numbers of homebrewers with poor sanitation habits.
Could there be a "Saccharomyces Andromeda" out there that could destroy beer as we know it?
We always hear "nothing that infects beer can make you sick" but AIDS came out of nowhere. Could there be a new strain of bacteria that could thrive in beer and also make us sick?
* and by "scientific" I mean "wild paranoid joe roganesque sci fi stoner speculation"
Firstly, I don't see this as even possible:
Can s.cerevisiae even survive in the stomach?
Assuming it can survive and ferment in the human body, what is the potential alcohol in a meal? (do we consume enough sugar at one time to intoxicate someone?)
Is it possible for a yeast to be fast acting enough to metabolize the sugars into enough alcohol to cause intoxication before the human body breaks them down?
And assuming it is true, what does this mean?
Are we all in danger of this affliction?
If this strain of s.cerevisiae can survive in stomach pH its probably immune to acid sanitizers like starsan. How long before this escapes into the wild and starts contaminating breweries and infecting us all?
What are the possibilities of a resistant mutant strain of yeast rising from the huge numbers of homebrewers with poor sanitation habits.
Could there be a "Saccharomyces Andromeda" out there that could destroy beer as we know it?
We always hear "nothing that infects beer can make you sick" but AIDS came out of nowhere. Could there be a new strain of bacteria that could thrive in beer and also make us sick?
* and by "scientific" I mean "wild paranoid joe roganesque sci fi stoner speculation"