matocaster
New Member
Hello all!
I'm new to the forum and look forward to getting to know you and learn from you as well!
I've been homebrewing for about 3 years now and I've come across an interesting issue I was hoping to get some insight into. a lot of my brews (extract) result in major gas (farts) for me, and soon after diarrhea. Go ahead and get your giggles out (just typing the word "farts" got a few chuckles out of me, but I'm 32 going on 13). I've researched this on the internet and on this forum and I'm having trouble nailing down what this could be from.
I see many posts about being careful about how you pour your bottle, but I keg, and I'm super careful about not disturbing my yeast cake when transferring, and I always always secondary ferment. I've wrote down all the yeast types of my brews that give me this issue, and it's pretty extensive, including US-05. I always sanitize very thoroughly, and have never had an infection in primary or secondary. Never used my equipment to brew a sour beer and always clean my hoses and such with food grade cleaner.
I thought over the past 3 years my belly would get used to the homebrew but it has not gotten any better or any worse. I do not suffer from any known food allergies and friends that drink my brew have no issues. My kegeraitor holds a steady 38-42 degrees F. (it's in the garage so it does fluctuate bit with the temp)
Those are all the factors I can think of. I do have a habit of throwing some of my beers in the keg about a week before the suggested time table suggests, but I always wait a week to a week and a half after I see bubbles in my secondary airlock and when I see the two water levels start to level out to each other (single piece "S" style) before kegging. I also wait a day or two to let the keg get to the 38-42f and carbonate before drinking. Most all of my beers are lower ABV stuff, like red ales, wheats (non hefe), German light, etc.
Just curious if you guys have any input on this issue? Sure gets old drinking beers on the can when it's so nice out
Thanks in advance!
I'm new to the forum and look forward to getting to know you and learn from you as well!
I've been homebrewing for about 3 years now and I've come across an interesting issue I was hoping to get some insight into. a lot of my brews (extract) result in major gas (farts) for me, and soon after diarrhea. Go ahead and get your giggles out (just typing the word "farts" got a few chuckles out of me, but I'm 32 going on 13). I've researched this on the internet and on this forum and I'm having trouble nailing down what this could be from.
I see many posts about being careful about how you pour your bottle, but I keg, and I'm super careful about not disturbing my yeast cake when transferring, and I always always secondary ferment. I've wrote down all the yeast types of my brews that give me this issue, and it's pretty extensive, including US-05. I always sanitize very thoroughly, and have never had an infection in primary or secondary. Never used my equipment to brew a sour beer and always clean my hoses and such with food grade cleaner.
I thought over the past 3 years my belly would get used to the homebrew but it has not gotten any better or any worse. I do not suffer from any known food allergies and friends that drink my brew have no issues. My kegeraitor holds a steady 38-42 degrees F. (it's in the garage so it does fluctuate bit with the temp)
Those are all the factors I can think of. I do have a habit of throwing some of my beers in the keg about a week before the suggested time table suggests, but I always wait a week to a week and a half after I see bubbles in my secondary airlock and when I see the two water levels start to level out to each other (single piece "S" style) before kegging. I also wait a day or two to let the keg get to the 38-42f and carbonate before drinking. Most all of my beers are lower ABV stuff, like red ales, wheats (non hefe), German light, etc.
Just curious if you guys have any input on this issue? Sure gets old drinking beers on the can when it's so nice out
Thanks in advance!