Wasn't sure to name the thread, but now that I have your attention - I'll explain it...
I've been brewing for a few years now, and I'm on my 24th batch. I've made some pretty good beers, a some ok beers... the ok beers usually had something to do with a last minute tweak to the recipe due to lack of judgement. This particular batch was an American style IPA, and my local store talked me into trying a new style of yeast that comes in a can. I had 2 cans of the stuff, and 3 carboys. Well after I opened the 2nd can and sprayed it everywhere, what wasn't on my shirt and the wall I dumped into the carboy and all of it slid out like cranberry sauce out of the can, leaving just a small slurry to dump in the last carboy. Needless to say, the last carboy was extremely underpitched but I decided to give it a go anyways and see what happens. The first two took off like rockets with a lag phase of about six hours fermenting at 61F. The underpitched one took a couple days to get going, but since I'm very careful about sanitation didn't seem to have an infection. A couple days later I opened the door the the crawlspace where they ferment and a very strong "rhino fart" hit me in the face. I thought I had my first infected batch on my hands, but after some research found out that stressed yeast can sometimes generate these smells. I waited it out, and the smells subsided and the beer ended up tasting pretty good during bottling. So good, in fact, that my wife and I ended up drinking a good amount of it that night. The next day we both had a sort of "spinning" sensation that would normally be associated with the consumption of much more beer than we had the night before (we each had a pint of "normal" stout, followed by a couple pints each of the beer in question).
My question is - can stressed yeast, infections, etc cause this feeling - or could it be from the huge amounts of b vitamins from the yeasty beer? Or something else I haven't considered?
And BTW, this is my first post, because I've always been able to find all my info by searching. Tons of knowledge here!
Cheers
I've been brewing for a few years now, and I'm on my 24th batch. I've made some pretty good beers, a some ok beers... the ok beers usually had something to do with a last minute tweak to the recipe due to lack of judgement. This particular batch was an American style IPA, and my local store talked me into trying a new style of yeast that comes in a can. I had 2 cans of the stuff, and 3 carboys. Well after I opened the 2nd can and sprayed it everywhere, what wasn't on my shirt and the wall I dumped into the carboy and all of it slid out like cranberry sauce out of the can, leaving just a small slurry to dump in the last carboy. Needless to say, the last carboy was extremely underpitched but I decided to give it a go anyways and see what happens. The first two took off like rockets with a lag phase of about six hours fermenting at 61F. The underpitched one took a couple days to get going, but since I'm very careful about sanitation didn't seem to have an infection. A couple days later I opened the door the the crawlspace where they ferment and a very strong "rhino fart" hit me in the face. I thought I had my first infected batch on my hands, but after some research found out that stressed yeast can sometimes generate these smells. I waited it out, and the smells subsided and the beer ended up tasting pretty good during bottling. So good, in fact, that my wife and I ended up drinking a good amount of it that night. The next day we both had a sort of "spinning" sensation that would normally be associated with the consumption of much more beer than we had the night before (we each had a pint of "normal" stout, followed by a couple pints each of the beer in question).
My question is - can stressed yeast, infections, etc cause this feeling - or could it be from the huge amounts of b vitamins from the yeasty beer? Or something else I haven't considered?
And BTW, this is my first post, because I've always been able to find all my info by searching. Tons of knowledge here!
Cheers
