Why does my homebrew make me fart so much?

[Jim311]

Last night I had chili as well as a couple pints of an IPA I brewed. Whew. When I first started brewing I was bottling and drinking beers that were green and still had a lot of suspended yeast in them but I've since stopped doing that. I can feel the difference between the unfermentables farts and the yeast ones. The yeast ones make me blow up like a damn balloon, very uncomfortable. The unfermentables just make me stinky but not uncomfortable.

 

[Brewbuzzard]

Good ole probiotics. Lay off the Hefe Weizen.

 

[doctor strangebrew]

Very interesting (and funny) thread. Thanks for the tip on cutting the tube shorter in the keg. My first time using a keg and I noticed right away that tube was too long! Was going to cut it anyway... good to know this was a good idea.

 

[mashpaddled]

In almost a decade of brewing I haven't had that problem but I've known people who drank my beer and did.

 

[tellyho]

Gluten issues?

 

[passedpawn]

I've always believed it's the yeast. Use gelatin and coldcrash for kegging, or before bottling.

I see I posted same almost 9 years ago, in this same thread. Has it really been that long? Hmmm.

 

[bracconiere]

I've always believed it's the yeast. Use gelatin and coldcrash for kegging, or before bottling.

I see I posted same almost 9 years ago, in this same thread. Has it really been that long? Hmmm.

lol! and back on topic, before i knew i needed to add gluco to my rice beer (using alpha only)...i got the runs something fierce from the dextrins...works like soluble fiber you know....

edit: (and having the runs, you know it's scary to even try and 'pass gas'! )

 

[Silver_Is_Money]

I've always believed it's the yeast.

I agree. Pour a bottle of beer which was fermented with a yeast strain that does not compact well at all (and thereby passes the yeast directly to the glass) and you are asking for this problem.

 

[bracconiere]

i hope someday, when i'm a ~90 years old, and ready to die. I see a thread like this brought back from the dead, from 2007 or something, so i can die happy....

 

[BedtimeBrewer]

What about all of the above? And mass producers are not immune from this either. Drink a sixer of bud and throe down a plate of nachos. You will pay for it later.

 

[Smellyglove]

Ever tried bottling the wrong fermentor when you had two hefe's in fermenting and you took the one which was on its height of sulfur-production instead of the one which was done?

I believe I wrote about that one in another thread. Cheap rocket propellant, just not to exaggerate.

 

[bracconiere]

got a good laugh with this at the bottom of this very page! call tech support (HBT)! with a feeling of bewilderment! lol

we'll help you get the the bottom, no pun intended, of it!

 

[Billie]

I've never noticed any digestive distress from homebrew. Now Genesee Cream Ale, well that's a whole different topic!

 

[tellyho]

Check out FODMAPS. Basically sugars that are not digested in your stomach that do get digested by bacteria in your lower intestine. =Farts.