After years of successful brewing, I finally encountered a bad batch of beer.
I managed to finally get off my ass and build the new keg fridge as the only fridge has died. I’m hoping this one lasts more than two years!
I hooked up some beers that have been sitting in the storage room since the winter…a scotch ale and a Christmas concoction of cinnamon, nutmeg and other assorted goodies.
Unfortunately, the scotch ale had gone bad. Like…really bad. But while I sipped on a pint on Saturday night, I told myself “You know, it just tastes sour…maybe I stumbled onto how to make a sour beer.” I searched the internet about drinking a bad batch and all signs pointed to the fact that I wouldn’t die from it. The beer was super cloudy.
It wasn’t until the end of the pint that I told Vero “Yeah…I’m not going to drink this anymore.” I switched over to the Christmas batch which surprisingly tasted pretty good!
The next morning, I awoke and I felt like I had a sunburn over my body. I started to wonder where I got some sun yesterday…sure, we were out at a garage sale, but that was about it.
I had a giant rash over spots of my body…my inner arms, my face, my thighs, my feet and my hands. Vero said that the left side of my face looked puffy and abnormal.
I’ll have to monitor the situation but at this point, with limited knowledge, I’m assuming that maybe this is an allergy to the yeast in the sour batch. Or I could be allergic to the Christmas batch. I dumped the bad batch and I’ll wait awhile before diving back into the Christmas batch.
Note: If the beer tastes pretty sour…don’t bother with the entire pint thinking you stumbled upon something magical!