"People have died drinking homebrew..."

[Beergnomes]

Purposely infected beers are delicious. Accidentally infected beers usually taste like ass.

But I would also challenge the guy to provide one instance of someone dying from bacteria in a home brew.

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The first purposely infected beer came from an accidentally infected beer but either way some of the best beers have coodies so I'll take my chances.

 

[biochemedic]

Repeat after me (again)... NOTHING. PATHOLOGIC. CAN. GROW. IN. BEER.

The owner of my LHBS has the following as his e-mail signature:

In wine, there is wisdom...
In beer, there is strength...
In water, there is bacteria...
You Decide!

 

[Beergnomes]

I recently met a fella who claimed that he has abandoned home brewing beer after being engaged in it for years. He went on to say that, "people have died from drinking home brewed beer infected with bacteria." He then added that home made wine is much safer due to it's higher alcohol content.



In the words of the immortal Bugs Bunny "what a maroon"

 

[zardozap]

Wrong.
It may taste like dead rhino rectum and give you the runs but not death.

You just may wish you had died instead afterwards.

 

[liquiditynerd]

Well, I did drink a bunch of homebrew and the next day at work I was in a room with no windows and some coworkers said they were about to die.....

 

[Puddlethumper]

Yup! Totally agree. Keep making home brew and drinking it and in another 100 years you'll be dead.

 

[troy2000]

Purposely infected beers are delicious. Accidentally infected beers usually taste like ass.

But I would also challenge the guy to provide one instance of someone dying from bacteria in a home brew.

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Out of the half dozen batches I've brewed and bottled, I've had exactly one infected bottle... and it was delicious.

I thought about maybe saving the dregs and doing some experimenting, but unfortunately I didn't think about it until there were no dregs left.

 

[Bender]

Remember when I took that home wine-making course and I forgot how to drive?

-- Homer Simpson

 

[IvanBrew]

University of California, Davis Professor Charles Bamforth is quoted by Scientific American as stating that "pathogens will not grow in beer".

I seem to recall Charlie Papazian saying something similar in his book.

I also know that beer was long considered a safer beverage than water because of the long boil, hops, and alcohol involved in making it, and that was at a time in human history when the best brewers weren't nearly as well equipped or informed as many of the members of this forum are today...

I do agree that 100% of people who consume home-brew die.

Then again, so do 100% of people who live in a bubble, eat a vegan diet, and recycle their 1st urine of the day...

I'll stick to home-brew.

 

[bajaedition]

I ish doing resershh rigt abourt nowssh
I ish conshuminering a burnch of homesh brewds rish now
I er berives , er breives, er believesh that da guyshh is aalll wrongish
I am still ariveish, sheeesh wheresh issh thsast bashroomsh door. I needs ta makerish rooms fer morsh researxh.

 

[619Brewer]

Beer was the beverage of choice for many many many years simply due to the fact that the local water source was....you got it....dangerous.

 

[Rhumbline]

A lot of people have died from stupidity, but that doesn't seem to have stopped him from being an idiot.

 

[Zepth]

"On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero."
- Fight Club

 

[Kirkwooder]

Sex is the leading cause of death. Period! Weather you believe that life begins with conception or at birth, life wouldn't end if two people hadn't gotten together and had SEX!

 

[kenpotf]

Drinking a 5 gallon keg in a night might kill you... I could see overdrinking doing that, but so does water.


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[geer537]

Could he have been reading Food 'Babe'?

Fixed that for yeah

Her post on beer and the person the OP was talking about are proof that good intentions and good deeds are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

 

[Spookgolds]

Another case of someone regurgitating something "they" say. "They" being any old person or source. "They" could be a complete ignoramus with a blog and nothing better to do. "They" could have been a 2 second sound byte he misheard or

I've always wanted to write down things "they" say, cause damn "they" say A LOT of stuff. Maybe even write a book about it. I bet you'd sell a bunch of copies because "they" would buy it...

 

[Edbert]

...so by extension, home made distilled spirits would be safer "still"?

I see what you did there!

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[Hello]

Well this could go either way for me then. Tell that guy I've been drinking a **** ton of homebrew since August 2013 and much to my dismay somedays, I'm still here.

This guy sounds like a toolbag.

 

[SubjectB]

The smart alecky remarks are reassuring as well as entertaining. Thanks!

And thanks for this link IvanBrew. Now I can reassure my wife, who happened to be within ear shots of the "scintillating" conversation I was having, that her yuppy friend is full of sh*t.

University of California, Davis Professor Charles Bamforth is quoted by Scientific American as stating that "pathogens will not grow in beer".

 

[LandoLincoln]

When you homebrew beer, you buy lots of homebrew equipment.
When you buy lots of homebrew equipment, you neglect to pay your other bills.
When you neglect to pay your other bills, your electricity goes out.
When your electricity goes out, you don't see the weather report about the tornado.
When you don't see the weather report about the tornado, you get tossed into the air for five miles.

Don't get tossed into the air for five miles. Don't homebrew beer.

 

[whoaru99]

Wrong.
It may taste like dead rhino rectum ....

By what path did you come to this knowledge?

 

[Billy-Klubb]

The smart alecky remarks are reassuring as well as entertaining. Thanks!

And thanks for this link IvanBrew. Now I can reassure my wife, who happened to be within ear shots of the "scintillating" conversation I was having, that her yuppy friend is full of sh*t.

grab that "yuppy friend" by the ears, bring your forehead down on the bridge of his nose, punch him in both kidneys, then drop to one knee & come up right away & uppercut him right in the *****. right close to the brown eye. then be all like, "I enjoy a nice home brewed Wee Heavy." in a calm tone. :rockin:

 

[BreezyBrew]

Could he have been reading Food Babe?

Best comment.

 

[Colorowdy]

By what path did you come to this knowledge?

Don't ask. I was young and needed the money.

 

[IvanBrew]

Don't ask. I was young and needed the money.

Lmao!

 

[Brewenstein]

When you homebrew beer, you buy lots of homebrew equipment.
When you buy lots of homebrew equipment, you neglect to pay your other bills.
When you neglect to pay your other bills, your electricity goes out.
When your electricity goes out, you don't see the weather report about the tornado.
When you don't see the weather report about the tornado, you get tossed into the air for five miles.

Don't get tossed into the air for five miles. Don't homebrew beer.

Now that's funny. Good stuff . Don't be a Dish head.

 

[Wynne-R]

I die every night

 

[Subsailor]

Repeat after me (again)... NOTHING. PATHOLOGIC. CAN. GROW. IN. BEER.

The owner of my LHBS has the following as his e-mail signature:

In wine, there is wisdom...
In beer, there is strength...
In water, there is bacteria...
You Decide!

I have seen it like this:

In Wine there is Wisdom,
In Cider there is Health,
In Beer there is Freedom,
In Mead there is Strength,
In Whiskey there is Appreciation,
In Water there is Bacteria,
You Decide…?

It seems almost like this could be a new thread:

In (beverage) there is (trait/virtue)

 

[chocotaco]

If it was possible to die from infected beer, someone would have died from infected commercial beer too. Infection (unintentional) in commercial beer can and does happen. It is probably more common in homebrew, but if there is a "risk" then the risk is there for any craft beer (I say craft because I don't know if bacteria would even want to drink BMC)