Found dead mouse in my keg

[JonM]

I just had a revolting thought. What if it had fallen into the keg while it was being filled? The OP might post something about an off flavor, and we'd ask diagnostic type questions about the recipe, fermentation temperatures, procedure, whether the CO2 was bad, eetc. and then OP would open the keg and OH MY GOD!!!!!!!

 

[iijakii]

"I find brett funk greatly increases once kegged. Not sure why."

 

[slym2none]

if they can take coffee beans and cocoa which is often full of rat and mouse feces, and hair and make it safe to eat/drink. I think a properly cleaned piece of stainless steel can be reused after a dead mouse comes into contact with it... My lord..

If they can take coffee beans that civets have eaten & then pooped out...

:fro:

 

[augiedoggy]

Dude, you are telling me that it is common practice to have rat and mouse feces in the process of making chocolate and coffee? Thank you for ruining two of my greatest pleasures in life (along with beer)!

Yes... I actually learned about this in science class... apparently the standards arent that high in south America where this stuff is harvested and stored... Rats absolutely love the cocoa and they are almost always present in the large warehouses where the stuff is stored.
Like mentioned earlier there are acceptable levels. like with ketchup... there is no protien in ketchup but the feds allow up to 8% in it which comes from those tomato grubs....

anyway the whole point of stainless over plastic is it can always be cleaned sterilized.

 

[brewbama]

Do you think breweries get rid of every piece of equipment they find a mouse it?

 

[raysmithtx]

Bleach, PBW, starsan and brew a " mouse Trappist ale".

 

[Bowtiebrewery]

Wow you guys really ran away with this thead... Hahah... Thats what happens when I go away for a few days... Thanks for the extra information on this one guys. I'll oxyclean that and hot water sanitize it...

I don't even want to think about if a mouse fell into a keg right before kegging it... Ugh... I think if I opened it and found that in there after drinking it for a while... I would probably puke right then and there...

 

[iijakii]

Who knows, maybe OP has a fantastic house yeast now.

 

[sudbuddy]

I have a friend who used to be a winemaker. She said that they often had mice or rats fall into fermenters, or go through the grape crusher thingy. They'd float on top and swell up/bloat, but the wine was still OK. There are acceptable levels for these things in food, so I wouldn't worry about a fresh one falling into a keg.

Don't you think the acidity of the wine would dissolve the mouse over time?

I remember a case a few years ago where a guy tried to sue PepsiCo. because he claimed that there was a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. The lawyers came back with a settlement offer and said "we aren't disputing that there may have been a mouse in there, but we know for a fact that you would never have found it because the Dew would have liquified it." I have not had a Mountain Dew since.

 

[Gnomebrewer]

Don't you think the acidity of the wine would dissolve the mouse over time?

I remember a case a few years ago where a guy tried to sue PepsiCo. because he claimed that there was a mouse in his can of Mountain Dew. The lawyers came back with a settlement offer and said "we aren't disputing that there may have been a mouse in there, but we know for a fact that you would never have found it because the Dew would have liquified it." I have not had a Mountain Dew since.

The one's they find, they fish out. Now how many don't they find that don't get fished out, and probably dissolve......

I'm never drinking wine again.

 

[sudbuddy]

I'm never drinking wine again.

Good call. Drink beer instead, it's safer

 

[iijakii]

Remember that episode of Breaking Bad where Walt and Jesse dispose of bodies by dissolving them in Pinot Noir?

 

[N4teTheGreat]

The one's they find, they fish out. Now how many don't they find that don't get fished out, and probably dissolve......

I'm never drinking wine again.

Just make your own lots of bugs in there as well from what I hear.

-- Nathan

 

[petey_c]

...Call your next one Mouse Stout!

Or maybe Mouse Drop In.....