"How to lose a few kgs in an evening beer recipe" :) - lesson learnt - READ

[trustyrusty]

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.

 

[Dave70]

To the scientists out there, what kind of bacteria could it be, unfortunately it does not taste or smell bad.

Well, you cant smell or taste botulism, but the fact you didn't stop breathing and keel over would suggest it probably wasn't.

But it use to be a real sizzler from time to time when the subject of no chill came up..


I to lost a few kilos last Sunday evening after ingesting a few lukewarm chili chicken fillets form Pheasants Nest BP on the way home from a mates place.
On balance, I think throwing up would have been preferable.

 

[trustyrusty]

On balance, I think throwing up would have been preferable.

always preferable

 

[philrob]

Moral of the story is to never ever never consume take away chicken. Certainly not when you do not know its history, how long it's been since cooking, how it was stored and at what temperature.
Some years ago mrs philrob and I were overnighting at an hotel at Schiphol Airport. Mrs philrob had a chicken sandwich in Amsterdam, and ended up having a terrible night. She was so crook I almost had to carry her onto the plane early the next morning.
She didn't learn though, twice more she got food poisoning from eating chicken, from of all places, her sister's husband's take away beach kiosk.

As for botulism, never heard of it happening in beer.

 

[Dave70]

This PSA might also save someone the grief of discharging fluids from either end of their digestive tract.
The take home being its not just the cooked stuff than can bring you unstuck.
Pictured below is an innocuous looking and to be honest, delicious sweetened with condensed milk iced coffee from a restaurant we stopped at on the way from Ha Long Bay on the way to Hanoi a few years ago.

Can you spot the danger?
That's right. There's ice in there. And Vietnam isn't exactly known for its stellar water quality. The kicker is I was well aware but reasoned the place had a high turnover so it should be sweet. Plus it was to early for beer.. (The lesson there is that its actually never to early for a beer)
Same rule applies to 'washed' salad.

The first sign of trouble emerged shortly before we arrived at the hotel an I felt like throwing on a puffer jacket despite it being 35 deg.
Remember that bit in Trainspotting when Renton decides to kick smack? Basically that for the next three days. Gross..
Be sure of your water.
Or play it safe and stick to beer.

 

[Hangover68]

Learnt that lesson in Egypt and Africa, never ask for ice in a drink.