Bottling and Spreading COVID-19

[Dancy]

I haven’t found an answer via Google so I’m asking here. I bottle my home brewed beer and I’m wondering if it is safe to give any away given how easily COVID spreads. Of course I’d use a sanitizing solution on the outside before giving any away but what about the contents? As far as I know, I’m negative for the virus but haven’t been tested. Any thoughts or answers from “official” sources?

 

[Jtvann]

Covid is airborne. You stand more of a chance contracting or passing it when you pass the bottles around by being in contact with other people. The bottles themselves are safe.

 

[bracconiere]

i'm willing to drink a bottle to find out? i'll send you some home malted crystal malt in exchage i malted without wearing a mask? lol

 

[danimal92sport]

I would agree with the above comment on it being airborne and thus, I would guess, low risk. Same goes for eating takeout food; the pickup/delivery seems to be the biggest risk for transmission. I’m no immunologist, however...

I brewed a sour and started showing covid symptoms the next day (and was ultimately positive). While I have no concern that the virus is somehow in the beer I brewed, I don’t plan to give any out because I imagine there’d just be something...off putting for folks who drink it. I can’t not tell them, and then it’d be weird. Sucks because the beer was being brewed for a friend’s birthday as a gift because she loves my sour beers.

Dan

 

[Dancy]

I’m thinking even if COVID-19 somehow is in the beer, it wouldn’t survive; however, I’m not a virologist so that’s why I asked.

 

[BrewZer]

I would agree with the above comment on it being airborne and thus, I would guess, low risk. Same goes for eating takeout food; the pickup/delivery seems to be the biggest risk for transmission. I’m no immunologist, however...

I brewed a sour and started showing covid symptoms the next day (and was ultimately positive). While I have no concern that the virus is somehow in the beer I brewed, I don’t plan to give any out because I imagine there’d just be something...off putting for folks who drink it. I can’t not tell them, and then it’d be weird. Sucks because the beer was being brewed for a friend’s birthday as a gift because she loves my sour beers.

Dan

I'm pretty sure the virus wouldn't remain viable after an hour in a boiling pot, or a couple of weeks in a fermenter, and assuming you sterilized the bottle interiors, didn't spray them with exhaled aerosols, and capped them reasonably quickly after filling them, I'd feel safe drinking your sour.

If I liked sours, that is...

 

[Dancy]

I'm pretty sure the virus wouldn't remain viable after an hour in a boiling pot, or a couple of weeks in a fermenter, and assuming you sterilized the bottle interiors, didn't spray them with exhaled aerosols, and capped them reasonably quickly after filling them, I'd feel safe drinking your sour.

This is what I’m thinking as well — I’ve been wondering if others see it the same way or if I’m missing something. I don’t think I can afford to be wrong for a bottle of beer.

 

[DBhomebrew]

2-3 weeks of bottle conditioning would qualify as suitable self-isolation, eh?

 

[Snark_Wolf_Brewing]

 

[day_trippr]

^lol^

 

[DBhomebrew]

2-3 weeks of bottle conditioning would qualify as suitable self-isolation, eh?

If in that time the beer loses aroma/flavor, though...

 

[Hammy71]

Corona=beer. So.....