Laxitive Beer

I'm just slowly making my way through:
Brewing, Science and Practice by Briggs, Boulton et al.
I ran across an interesting tidbit on adjusting your wort minerals:

"Sodium ions (Na+, at. wt. 23.0) occur in some waters and sodium chloride is the main
solute in saline waters. Sodium ions can impart sour/salty flavours at high concentrations
(over about 150 mg/litre, which is also a proposed maximum concentration) and sodium
chloride may be added to brewing liquors (75-150 mg/l) to enhance `palate-fullness' and
a certain sweetness. Sometimes potassium chloride is added instead, at low
concentrations, to achieve a less sour flavour. Excess potassium ions ((K+, at. wt.
39.1) >10 mg/l) can have laxative effects and impart a salty taste."

Maybe there is a niche market for laxitive beer - you could even load it with oatmeal and call it high in soluble fiber.

 

I'm pretty sure if you drink enough of any beer it will have laxative effects!

 

God, you wouldn't want to be my toilet after a night of drinking stout, that's for sure. "Laxative effects," is quite an understatement.

 

Oh my god, I was going to make a joke about how you could use EX-Lax and make a chocolate oatmeal laxative stout, and while I was googling, I found out it has been done already..


Those Koreans are so funny...

Their website is equally "interesting" all bright and colorful, with cartoon women.

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Okay......

 

Mmmmm... Korean women are hawt. I wish I had been single during my brief trip to Osan.

/drool

 

I found some more info and a bit of a review...

 

Yeah, you go to Korea for the women, cheap shopping, and dirt cheap beer, not quality beer. Anyone who's tried OB can tell you, it's $2 a pint for a reason. Korean beer rates one step below Japanese beer in my book, which in turn rests one step below BMC.

Honestly though, the ex-lax chocolate stout sounds like a great idea. I have a rowdy prankster working for me at the moment who loves dark beers and can't get enough of my oatmeal stout. Next time that little turd pulls a practical joke on me, he's getting a sample.

 

Oh, man, I thought it was just Mg and yeast that were laxatives! Now I have to worry about K and fiber...?