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Hey, totally random here, but does anyone else's pee smell funny (think asparagus) after drinking a lot of yeasty homebrew? Especially wits and hefes...:drunk:
 
To my knowledge asparagus is the only thing that affects the smell of my urine. I hate that smell but love asparagus.
 
I notice two things in my pee-- asparagus and coffee. However, most of the time it's difficult to smell my pee (probably for the better) due to the shape of the toilets/urinals I use. I've noticed that certain ones cause more urinary odor than others.

One of these days I want to do an experiment to find out how fast the aspara-piss (my name for the tainted urine smell) happens after eating. I guess I'll have to wait until I have to pee, and then eat a single stalk of asparagus. Then I can vary the time until I sense the aspara-piss.
 
seriously! My pee smells like yeast the next morning after a night of drinking! its weird!

and aren't yeast farts the CO2 that carbonates our beer? :p
 
I drink a lot of pee but haven't noticed my homebrew smelling weird afterward =)
 
How much brew have you had when you notice this? If you've gotten rather wasted perhaps it is just dehydrated pee that you're smelling.
 
jpc said:
Ah... Vitamin C does that. When I'm sick I tend to take tablets, and am amazed at the color.
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That's because you really aren't absorbing much of whats in that tablet. You get the 100% you need and the rest goes through your pee. A cup of OJ has 110% of your daily need.
 
This is slightly more delicate and worrisome aspect of this same inquiry.

Is it possible that it changes the taste of . . . well . . . you know . . . the not pee. Does it change the taste of that do you think? Because if it does it could explain a lot. And it might change one of the motivating factors for choosing which beer to brew. A lot more chocolate and vanilla beers in the pipeline so to speak,
 
dontman said:
This is slightly more delicate and worrisome aspect of this same inquiry.

Is it possible that it changes the taste of . . . well . . . you know . . . the not pee. Does it change the taste of that do you think? Because if it does it could explain a lot. And it might change one of the motivating factors for choosing which beer to brew. A lot more chocolate and vanilla beers in the pipeline so to speak,
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Pineapples and strawberries apparently have a large effect on that, eat strawberries for three days then ask yer wife to get her laughing tackle around a strawberry treat....doesn't work for me but hey you might be lucky....
 
I can't always be bothered to drink enough water when in a drunken stupor!

I think it has to do with actually drinking to yeast in hefe's and some belgians...my best guess anyways.

I will have to try out the strawberry/pineapple idea though....SWMBO!! Where are you?
 
Some studies have shown that all people who eat asparagus produce smelly pee, but only approximately 22% of the population can pinpoint the asparagus stink, where the other 78% cannot distinguish it from normal pee smell.
http://dsc.discovery.com/guides/skinny-on/asparagus.html

So this begs the question: does the pee smell if 78% of the population can't smell it?

I can smell it. God awful horrid **** weed. Tastes OK going in, but not 30 minutes later...
 
I've never noticed my pee smelling different. However I picked up a 6 pack of IIPA from brecknridge yesterday and polished it off last night. Great beer! Then this morning when I took my morning dump it smelled exactly like a good IPA
 
Asparagus and beets with dinner.


Aspara-piss odor drives me off the toilet and I see the bloody beet butt as I wipe my arse. I'm still scarfin them both whenever I can.
 
In honor of this thread, I have been drinking nothing but IPAs for the last 4 hours straight, and refraining from urinating, in the hopes that when I let it go, after the next ipa of course, a warm and very floral wafting of warm, grapefruity hops will rise up out of the toilet bowl and envelope me, and lift me off to heaven.

<<<<Bucking for inclusion in the mem quotes thread with this post. :D
 
Revvy is blatter retentive and a pee sniffer.
man...thats just messed up.
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