Influenza, here we go again

[illmatija]

On Monday started feeling a bit bad but hey, I gotta bottle my latest dry hopped APA, which I did in the evening.

~20th batch so far, no infections yet, followed usual procedure, mixed the priming sugar quite well with the beer racked on top, sanitized everything and bottled.

Got a fever that night.

Turns out it was likely influenza that had been spreading around the workplace.

So yeah, I did a bunch of reading and I know a lot of people live by the 'no known pathogens can live in beer' but there seems to be a confusion between 'live' and 'can survive the brewing process' which makes people believe in that.

So given it's a virus that might have been introduced a little bit while mixing the contents of the bottling bucket, does anyone have any information on what are the chances it could survive in the bottles?

Cheers

 

[giraffe]

http://www.nhs.uk/chq/Pages/how-long-do-bacteria-and-viruses-live-outside-the-body.aspx

Viruses are fragile, the ph of the beer will kill them quickly. On the glass itself, 24 hours.

 

[krackin]

To be safe, drink it all yourself. It is the upstanding thing to do.

 

[illmatija]

Oh yeah, that'd be cracking, krackin! Obviously I thought of that valiant idea, however I did plan to send this to some contests so I had to wonder.

 

[theseeker4]

Oh yeah, that'd be cracking, krackin! Obviously I thought of that valiant idea, however I did plan to send this to some contests so I had to wonder.

meh, your beer will be scored before anyone gets sick.....

Just kidding, as mentioned above, viruses are not good at surviving outside the body in most cases.

 

[oceanic_brew]

Terror!!!

 

[aprichman]

Bacterial spore formers are the "tough" guys that can survive through almost anything. Viruses are weaklings outside their hosts.

 

[Homercidal]

Am I the only one dreaming up a horror story based on infected homebrew?

Yeah, it's a slow day at work...