Home made beer made me sick?
mina_lumina asked:
I had two of my friends’ home made beers on Sunday night and had excruciating stomach cramps the next morning. I thought it was food poisoning, but couldn’t think of anything I had eaten that my husband hadn’t, but he was fine. Then, Thursday night, I had another of these beers and immediately started getting the cramps again. My husband, and the friend, and the friend’s wife can drink these beers and feel fine. I’m thinking it was some bacteria in the beer I had never encountered that I developed an allergy to (they were newly brewed beer). My question has two parts. I want to know if anyone else has experienced this, and I also want to know if this is going to happen every time I have home made beer, or was it more likely just this batch?
I want to head off any comments that bacteria can’t live in beer: it can and does, which is why it is so important to sterilize the equipment. It’s a common misconception that it can’t, and I’d like to keep the record set straight.
Once again adding that bacteria can grow in beer. Just because it is sterilized at one point does not mean it always remains sterilized. While something remains at room temperature, any exposure to anything that has not been sterilized poses a risk of contamination. Unless you are boiling the beer at super heated temperatures seconds before drinking it, there is always room for bacteria. If bacteria could not grow in beer, there would not be any need to sterilize the equipment. Home brewers are warned of the nasties that can contaminate beer. The alcohol content is not enough to kill bacteria. Just, trying through gritted teeth to make sure people are aware of this…
Mina
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4 Responses to “Home made beer made me sick?”
A mate made home made beer once and some were fine others were very nasty from the same batch. The main issue is that each bottle is NOT the same strength or consistency etc…. you probably got a really strong beer in terms of hops or just alcohol and that made you sick.
beer and wine is both
sterilized cooked. there
is less bacteria then in the water we drink because it isn’t sterilized.
maybe you should drink a beer that is lite like
miller lite that’s what i drink.
or maybe your allergic
to yeast. that’s in beer but you would break out in hives. so maybe you
caught the flew bug.
it is very hard for certain bacteria to live in homebrewed beer NOT exposed to oxygen.
most of the time when homebrew makes you sick, it can be from drinking yeast left over in the bottle. when i bottle my beer, there is still some residual yeast left in the beer which is necessary for carbonation. you have to drink carefully when drinking homebrew from a bottle because if you slosh it around or dirnk too fast, you can end up drinking the yeast at the bottom. its not necessarily bad, but enough of it can make you very very very regular for a few days. non-toxic, though.
otherwise they are crappy homebrewers.
It is possible that you had a bad reaction to the type of yeast that was used, I would think if it were bacteria, all that drank the beer would be sick.