trustyrusty
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Hi
I hope this helps others...
Ok so this is what happened...
Tapped off beer into plastic 2 lt bottle. Flat.
Left on top of fridge for months.
Needed to use bottle.
Opened.
Carbonated.
Thought oh great... maybe ok now.
Took a sip, quite good but tipped rest out as needed the bottle.
2 hours later
Spewed 3 times removing all contents of gut, including on the way home - had to pull over.
Moral of the story - don't leave beer around that was opened to oxygen.
Rookie error.
but incredible that it did not taste bad or off.
So, I learnt the hard lesson of the difference between off and infected. Thought they were the same but NO.
How I knew it was the beer?
I went on a trip were someone had left a can of beer in esky from a previous year trip and had been keep in the garage no cold. Over a year old, and maybe 2 years because I went in 2015 and 2017. DID NOT TASTE bad or even stale. Another lesson that canned beer must drunk within the year. That could have been a little metal poising too. I was working both ends if you know what I mean.
I had never been so sick in my life; I was the only one that had that beer because it was the last one in esky. Could have only been the beer.
I can understand why beer companies make sure beer is right because that could be very harmful if not.
To the scientists out there, what kind of bacteria could it be, unfortunately it does not taste or smell bad.
I can't image if I had put back in the fridge and had a schooner, I don't think I would be writing this post?
So if you are filling a few bottles and can't fill it up..Don't unless you add CO2 to the bottle first.
That is the reason Co2 is used in bottling I am pretty sure - not only for preserving flavour. Oxygen will keep bacteria alive.
I hope this helps others...
Ok so this is what happened...
Tapped off beer into plastic 2 lt bottle. Flat.
Left on top of fridge for months.
Needed to use bottle.
Opened.
Carbonated.
Thought oh great... maybe ok now.
Took a sip, quite good but tipped rest out as needed the bottle.
2 hours later
Spewed 3 times removing all contents of gut, including on the way home - had to pull over.
Moral of the story - don't leave beer around that was opened to oxygen.
Rookie error.
but incredible that it did not taste bad or off.
So, I learnt the hard lesson of the difference between off and infected. Thought they were the same but NO.
How I knew it was the beer?
I went on a trip were someone had left a can of beer in esky from a previous year trip and had been keep in the garage no cold. Over a year old, and maybe 2 years because I went in 2015 and 2017. DID NOT TASTE bad or even stale. Another lesson that canned beer must drunk within the year. That could have been a little metal poising too. I was working both ends if you know what I mean.
I had never been so sick in my life; I was the only one that had that beer because it was the last one in esky. Could have only been the beer.
I can understand why beer companies make sure beer is right because that could be very harmful if not.
To the scientists out there, what kind of bacteria could it be, unfortunately it does not taste or smell bad.
I can't image if I had put back in the fridge and had a schooner, I don't think I would be writing this post?
So if you are filling a few bottles and can't fill it up..Don't unless you add CO2 to the bottle first.
That is the reason Co2 is used in bottling I am pretty sure - not only for preserving flavour. Oxygen will keep bacteria alive.
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