Can a sour beer make you sick?

Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:27 am

So I started my first sour brew about two weeks ago. It's the Bam Biere clone from the Jamil show... I grew up some 'bugs' from a bottle of the real beer and pitched with a Belgian ale yeast. I tried it last night while transferring and Im feeling kinda sick today with a raging sore throat... Can a beer such as this throw off anything that would cause you to get sick, being that there is bacterias and wild yeast, or did I just party too hard this weekend and wreck my throat? Haha
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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Mon Jul 11, 2011 12:39 pm

It is my understanding that nothing harmful can live in beer.
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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Mon Jul 11, 2011 1:16 pm

Ironman wrote:It is my understanding that nothing harmful can live in beer.

Strictly speaking this is not 100% true but it would be very unusual to be made sick by anything in your beer.
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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Mon Jul 11, 2011 2:27 pm

Thanks guys, I kinda figured as much but it seemed all too weird to be sick the next morning... However I think the sickness might be caused by a round of slap the bag wine... Haha thanks guys
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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:46 pm

Too many sour beers will give me gas so bad the wallpaper peels and the cat gets offended. Other than that, sour beers shouldn't cause any illness.

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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Thu Jul 21, 2011 6:16 pm

I brewed a sour-mashed Saison, from bacteria on the grain, not a pure culture, that gave somebody a ripping allergy attack.
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Re: Can a sour beer make you sick?

Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:51 pm

how much of it did you "try" a gallon?
I doubt the beer content woudl have caused an issue, but the alcohol content mixed witha unnoticed minor infection might have left you witha sore thrat the next day
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