Beer fart question

I'm giggling as I type this

Ok, so why does my homebrew (currently drinking my favorite dunkel-bock recipe) make my farts smell so dang bad!?! I mean, it's bad enough when the wife complains but when the dogs wont share the room with me I get kind of insulted.

Now, I did google this and got the answer "oats, barley, malts, etc cause gas...". Ok, why doesn't it happen when I down a sixer of PBR then? I mean, I might cut a good one or two but they definitely lack the pungent power my homebrew horrors seem to be packing.

On the bright side, this all keeps me from drinking on a worknight Not even I'm that mean.

Funny you should ask.

The answer is Yeast. Homebrew contains live yeast and yeast likes to eat E36 M3. Like in a literal sense. And as you know, when yeast eats, it lets off gas.

When I owned the U-Brew Brewery more than one wife unit called me to inquire what I had done to her husband!

like NOHOME said. It's the yeast. 99.9999% of homebrewers don't filter their homebrew. I know I don't. BigBeer? Almost the exact opposite. They filter it to make it crystal clear.

Besides, does PBR count as beer?

Not just live yeast, but a massive concentration of it.

Even at a production microbrewery where we don't filter, we can cold crash yeast outand dump most of it.

Also, are you checking your final gravity? Is it a bit high? You very likely have incomplete fermentation. That will really cause intestinal action. (I know of a regional craft brewery who does forced fermentation and so leaves residual fermentables. Even though they filter, their beer makes many people fatty.)

Grtechguy wrote: Besides, does PBR count as beer?

Hey, there's nostalgic warmth in cold cheap beer.

I have not been checking my final gravity. I really mean to, but my brew-time is king of cramped and hit-and-miss with a toddler running around.

I'll try cold shocking the yeast, and I'll report the results (it'll be a blind study as SWMBO won't know her reactions to my flatulence will be documented as test results )

That was my first wife's nickname.

The real reason is because everything good has a damn catch to it somewhere!

Dogfishhead 60 does that to me. I get the vapors something fierce. Enough that I have made a dog leave the room and considered the possibility that I had inadvertently allowed the hampster to die in there without removing the corpse.

It is truly amazing the things you can learn on this forum!

How are you carbonating? If you are using bottles pour carefully and don't pour the last 1/4 inch or so from the bottle to keep the yeast in the bottles as much as possible.

I carbonate in the bottle, I usually just leave most of the neck empty (1-liter bottles) and have had pretty good luck so far (except that one time I immediately put them in the basement and killed all the yeast and had to drink flat beers...)

Pickled eggs are the most effective counter measure to flatulence fragrance, no really, I read it on the internet.

The only thing I know for sure about beer farts is that they are flammable.

Our beer sat in a walk in chiller for a week before sub-micron filtering.

Nope, you are still going to be something of a biological bagpipe.

Some people much worse than others.

The good news is that if you stay faithful, the system seems to settle down after a few months. Kinda like learning to drink the water in Mexico.

In reply to Hungary Bill:

Cold crashing will be minimally effective with a flat bottomed carboy. You need a conical bottom to pull the yeast. Otherwise, you're just going to upset your yeast cake with the siphon anyway.

Check your final gravity. Siphon from carboy to bottling bucket staying just below the beer surface. Decant your bottles.

In reply to Hungary Bill:

Cheap, tastes okay and comes in a can. Meets my requirements.

92dxman wrote: In reply to Hungary Bill: Cheap, tastes okay and comes in a can. Meets my requirements.

Lots of beer snobs up here will pay out the yin-yang for some microbrew. As such, microbrew prices can run you almost $6+ a liter. For that price, I'd rather a sixer of 16oz PRRs

In reply to NOHOME:

Drink more of my hooch. Got it! (And fire in the hole)

In reply to BeerBaron:

Thanks for the pointers. I may try to hit you up for a few pointers this fall come pumpkin time. I made a pumpkin-spice wine last year and the spices seems to overpower everything. I've got some ideas for this years batch, but if it doesn't work out I may be looking for a little advice

Wasn't there a homebrew thread on here somewhere?

My home-brew has been doing that to me too- I'm at 1.014 FG (1.064 OG) and 1.016 FG (1.066 OG) for my last two IPA's.

Oh, and I don't feel too bad- I have to keep up in the fart department with my 8 yr old daughter. Jeebus, she is going to be a handful (and consequently, I love her to death!).

Figure the answer is to keep testing. Daily.

In reply to Hungary Bill:

I'm sure there have been home brew threads. Not sure I'm the best to help you out with questions on spicing a pumpkin beer. I'm not a fan of most spiced beers, so it isn't something I've done yet. Although I plan to do a small batch of something for the taproom this coming fall.

I suppose I have a few tricks from other related experiments I've done in the past.

Hungary Bill wrote: I'm giggling as I type this Ok, so why does my homebrew (currently drinking my favorite dunkel-bock recipe) make my farts smell so dang bad!?! I mean, it's bad enough when the wife complains but when the dogs wont share the room with me I get kind of insulted.

Just consider it asserting your position as the alpha male in the pack. Dogs aren't toeing the line? Let 'er rip and show them who is boss.

Now, I did google this and got the answer "oats, barley, malts, etc cause gas...". Ok, why doesn't it happen when I down a sixer of PBR then?

PBR is lightly filtered urine, no oats/barley/malts involved

Now that is out of the way. I wonder if you're getting any live yeast in your homebrew that is setting up shop in your gut. I've heard of that happening, but no word on the gaseous side effects.

Guinness Extra Stout does that to me. I've cleared out a backyard from the aftereffects. (Yeah, I farted-out an outdoors area. HAIL TO THE KING)