bottom of the barrell

brow_601

anyone know if the beer at the bottom of the barrell is, well, drinkable?

i was drinkin budweiser one night, only had 3 pints cause i was out late, and i went to bed more than 2 hours after i had my last pint, but i was sick as a dog the next day, didnt get out of bed all day and puked about 4 times.

anyone know if this might have been caused by bottom of the barrell beer?

tuxy

Could be lots of things.Eg. Contaminated glass causing food poisoning. Are you sure it was a hangover you had in the morning?

brow_601

no idea, it felt like one anyway, just more extreme , only lasted a day though

guildofevil

As much as I dislike the beer in question, I doubt it had anything to do with your illness.

The beer at the bottom of the barrel is the same as at the top. Kegs are designed to keep beer in a stable condition for a very long time.

Pathogenic bacteria cannot survive in beer, so it cannot give you food poisoning.

The only way that 3 pints of Spudweiser could make you sick like that, is if the publican mucked with the keg and poured something in that isn't beer, or he had recently cleaned his lines but failed to flush the cleaning fluid before serving more beer.

The most likely scenario is that you picked up a bug of some kind, somewhere else and you associated it with the beer because it felt somewhat like a hangover.

rubadub

brow_601 wrote:

i was drinkin budweiser one night,

Thats your problem right there
It will give you a hangover from any part of the barrel! It is brewed using rice, and quick fermented, this is a perfect receipe to produce methanol and other cogeners, these are what give you hangovers (and dehydration too). The brew time of bud is measured in hours.

Did you eat any dodgy food, since 3 pints, even of that methanol laden brew, is very little.

oblivious

As much as I hate the mega swills, bud is an extremely hard beer to brewer, to produce something with out any flavor/taste on a commercial scale.

The illness may also be from someone handling the glass that had not washed there hands after using the toilet

admiralofthefleet

op, were the taps raised or hidden in the bar where you were drinking?, im asking because a lot of pubs with low/hidden taps keep small amounts of dregs and spillages from the drip trays in pint glasses for topping up when a lager is ordered, this cuts down on waste. that could be how you got sick

JIZZLORD

admiralofthefleet wrote:

op, were the taps raised or hidden in the bar where you were drinking?, im asking because a lot of pubs with low/hidden taps keep small amounts of dregs and spillages from the drip trays in pint glasses for topping up when a lager is ordered, this cuts down on waste. that could be how you got sick

yuck, i'll stick with bottles of erdinger then

ansionnachclist

Oh my sweet lord, that is a fabulous drink.

:|

rubadub wrote:

Thats your problem right there
It will give you a hangover from any part of the barrel! It is brewed using rice, and quick fermented, this is a perfect receipe to produce methanol and other cogeners, these are what give you hangovers (and dehydration too). The brew time of bud is measured in hours.
.

So what's better for not getting a hangover? I presume you mean all mainstream type beers too, like corona, heineken and miller?

They'd be my drinks of choice and I do get pretty bad hangovers. May be related to the quantity rather than quality though heh