vicratlhead51
Well-Known Member
I was talking to one of the guys at work and he was asking if my homebrews give me a headache or a bad hangover and I said no I think if a homebrew does do this its from high fermentation temps causing the yeast to produce fusel alchohols. As long as the temps stay in the yeast's proper range it shouldn't cause this. His response was "oh really? I went to a brewery in wisconsin and it was hot as hell in there. Why don't they have that problem?" I didn't really have a response. My guess is he was confused and was there during a boil and not fermentation. It did get me thinking though, how do big brewerys keep fermentation temps down? I mean you could keep the outside cool but what about the middle? Do they have a chilling system for fermentation? Can homebrew actually cause less of a hangover since our small batches are really easy to control? I'm assuming since he asked me this that he must have had some one elses homebrew that something went wrong with. What else in beer can cause nasty hangovers? Sorry for all the questions but I kind of like to have an answer when somebody asks.