Nothing that can kill you can grow in your beer...

[jump_xiii]

I've heard or read words to that effect a number of times, relating to post fermentation and infections in bottles etc. People say stuff like "it might taste bad, but it wouldn't do you any harm if you did drink it".

An experience I had over the weekend got me thinking about this.

I went to bed Saturday night and woke up at 2am. Without going into details, basically "it" came out of both ends violently on and off until about 8am. Then I just felt like **** all day Sunday and slowly got back to normal over the next few days.

4 factors in the day:

1) I worked in the garden and handled soil/dirt etc
b) I have 2 dogs who do what dogs do, eat what dogs eat, lick what dogs lick and then jump on me, try to lick my face etc etc etc
iii) I had pizza from a take-out
#) I had 1 bottle of homebrew (a batch that I have previously had 7-10 bottles of

Anyone else had similar experiences at all?

Was it the hombrew- a rogue bottle?

 

[amc22]

Sounds like food poisoning.

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

sometimes the yeast in homebrew can cause stomach issues until your body gets used to it, i.e. new bacteria growing in your gut. if you're new to drinking yeasty beer, that may be it. but since you're in the UK and undoubtedly get some nice cask conditioned ales, your belly's quite familiar with brewers yeast. my guess would be you either caught a li'l bug or the pizza is the culprit. i know things like greasy, cheesy food mixed with a few yeasty home-brews causes my gut to act much like an active fermenter!

 

[jotakah]

I don't think it was the beer. I think you got dog **** on your hands and transferred it to your pizza. If it wasn't the dog****, it was something else. Not the beer in my opinion since you already had it 7-10 times.

 

[TyTanium]

Have another beer, see if the same thing happens.

 

[jump_xiii]

I'm with you guys on your responses. I know that each bottle could be different- it might have not been sanitised properly or whatever, but from that bactch I'd already had a few before and had 5 gallons of my first batch pretty much all to myself.

If it wasn't the pizza it was something I picked up in the garden or from the dogs and obviously cross contaminated something.

It certainly wasn't pretty!

 

[broadbill]

sometimes the yeast in homebrew can cause stomach issues until your body gets used to it, i.e. new bacteria growing in your gut. if you're new to drinking yeasty beer, that may be it. but since you're in the UK and undoubtedly get some nice cask conditioned ales, your belly's quite familiar with brewers yeast. my guess would be you either caught a li'l bug or the pizza is the culprit. i know things like greasy, cheesy food mixed with a few yeasty home-brews causes my gut to act much like an active fermenter!

even so, this doesn't cause "it" to come out of both end violently for 8 hours.

stomach bug and/or food poisoning is the culprit.

 

[jump_xiii]

Have another beer, see if the same thing happens.

This is the only thing! I haven't had one for a few days because I've still felt pretty bad, but I know that the thought of how it came out might make the first gulp pretty hard to swallow as I don't want a repeat of Saturday night.

As for the pizza- it made me feel sick just thinking about the 2 slices sitting in the fridge and I struggled just picking it up to throw it in the trash...

 

[jump_xiii]

even so, this doesn't cause "it" to come out of both end violently for 8 hours.

stomach bug and/or food poisoning is the culprit.

Indeed! In this case "it" was not of the gaseous family of what can come out of a human body. Neither was it solid, or plasma. So that only leaves one matter state...

 

[KrazyKajun]

Yep, probably food poisoning...it'll likely be tough to drink the same beer again after having it come back up so violently, but I doubt that was the cause.

Good luck!

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

even so, this doesn't cause "it" to come out of both end violently for 8 hours.

stomach bug and/or food poisoning is the culprit.

my guess would be you either caught a li'l bug ..............

guess not.

 

[GASoline71]

Did you have Chinese Pizza takeout?

Gary

 

[NordeastBrewer77]

Did you have Chinese Pizza takeout?

Gary

mmmmm, sounds tasty!

 

[BamaRooster]

Chinese takeout got me 3 years ago and I still can't eat it!!

 

[GASoline71]

I got food poisoning from Red Robin one time... almost ruined all hamburgers for me. I can still eat a burger... but I can't step foot back into one of those restaraunts.

Gary

 

[bruin_ale]

not the beer.. my vote is on the pizza.

 

[jump_xiii]

Got a friendly poker game with some buddies tonight- I'll be trying to drink the beer in question.

I just hope pizza isn't on the menu!

 

[mtk6006]

Listen to me very carefully. Could it be food? SURE! I have had it from food before not very fun. COuld it be the dogs? I doubt it! Could it be from garden dirt? HELL YES! (green manure maybe?) COuld it be from homebrew YOU BET! If anyone thinks for one minute beer cant get jacked up brother you gotta another comming! My grandfather drank a "bad beer" once and he was sitting in dark for days ill! Listen when it doubt throw it out! Why risk it? If its fuzz then no buzz. If it has hair dont you dare! Hope ya get well soon!

 

[broadbill]

Listen to me very carefully. Could it be food? SURE! I have had it from food before not very fun. COuld it be the dogs? I doubt it! Could it be from garden dirt? HELL YES! (green manure maybe?) COuld it be from homebrew YOU BET! If anyone thinks for one minute beer cant get jacked up brother you gotta another comming! My grandfather drank a "bad beer" once and he was sitting in dark for days ill! Listen when it doubt throw it out! Why risk it? If its fuzz then no buzz. If it has hair dont you dare! Hope ya get well soon!

Is this your professional medical opinion?

 

[unionrdr]

Yeah,the mods that form a sort of pellicle on top of the beer in primary can be unpleasant,too say the least. Goots catch those before bottling. Not to mention the bottles being clean & sanitized. The racking/bottling tubing as well. I leave no stone unturned.

 

[Jayhem]

I'd blame the pizza. Every case of an upset stomach I've ever had followed eating out at some restaurant/take out...I've never got sick from my own cooking and unless the beer tasted really bad it is very doubtful it was the cause.

 

[Cambone]

COuld it be from homebrew YOU BET! If anyone thinks for one minute beer cant get jacked up brother you gotta another comming! My grandfather drank a "bad beer" once and he was sitting in dark for days ill! Listen when it doubt throw it out! Why risk it? If its fuzz then no buzz. If it has hair dont you dare!

I hope you're being ironic or something.

 

[mtk6006]

What are yall talking about? You would drink beer with fuzz on it? I was talking mold here. I dont eat bread that is green either call me crazy!

 

[jump_xiii]

I'd blame the pizza. Every case of an upset stomach I've ever had followed eating out at some restaurant/take out...I've never got sick from my own cooking and unless the beer tasted really bad it is very doubtful it was the cause.

Tasted GREAT when I was drinking it... Not so much in rewind at 2am!

 

[HopHeadGrady]

Beer does not contain pathogens. You could get gas tho...

 

[Cambone]

What are yall talking about? You would drink beer with fuzz on it? I was talking mold here. I dont eat bread that is green either call me crazy!

Ya, they're called sour beers, ie Lambics and the like. They look like this:

And are often times quite delicious.

 

[mtk6006]

Im sorry but i couldnt drink something that looked like that. I know what your thinking how you think it looks at the micro brew? Yeah i know i try not to think about it. Is it really supposed to look like that? and why?

 

[bonzombiekitty]

Im sorry but i couldnt drink something that looked like that. I know what your thinking how you think it looks at the micro brew? Yeah i know i try not to think about it. Is it really supposed to look like that? and why?

I believe that particular beer is supposed to look like that. It uses bacteria (such as Lactobacillus) that looks really nasty, but results in a desired flavor.

 

[DannPM]

Takeout pizza in the UK? Honestly didn't think you guys had that! Super jealous of the million and a half take out Curry places you guys have though!!!

 

[wildwest450]

The pizza guys let their dogs lick them and then they made your pizza. You let your dogs lick you after eating dog balls and shyte pizza, and you're blaming homebrew?