Eat a cup of yogurt a day. It will help out the “good” bacteria in your digestive track.
I make these two beers (IPA and Black Ale) with a huge amount of Cascade hops. They give me rank beer farts. But I’m not going to stop drinking two of my favorite recipes because I can clear a room with my rump.
I doubt it’s the yeast alone, if that were the case then running it through the 1 micron filter would eliminate the problem completely, not just help. More likely you are filtering out a portion of something else that is causing the problem.
The ‘good’ bateria are part of the ‘problem’ it is the bugs in your intestines that are munching on sugars that your body can do nothing with causing the gas. I suspect I don’t notice the problem cause as a vegetarian I have so much gas anyway who’s gonna know the difference. I am not a chemist so I don’t know how big various sugars are but I assume they are less than 1 micron. perhaps it is an unconverted starch issue.
I too experience this, and after a night on a Belgian bender…whoa! I know that the yeast is working overtime with the bacteria in my intenstines…I can almost feel it. I figure it is just industrial strength digestion.
This last batch of beer finished at 1.010. Thats a little sweet, maybe fermentation picks up after it hits my intestine.
This thread is a gas!
What kind of beer, Jim? 1.010 doesn’t seem like that high of a FG.
Off / on topic…I believe I’ve said it here before, hoppy beers make me belch like sometihng ungodly. I mean a deep belch from the tips of my toes. It’s unreal. Only hoppy beer have such an extreme effect on me.
My first guess would also be the yeast.Other than that, it could be your carbonation levels. Or, maybe your beer is so good or so bad that people are drinking it really fast and swallowing large volumes of air while drinking.
I have noticed it worse with some beers, but really, everything makes me fart. My doctor said I’m probably swallowing too much air when I eat and drink.
Well here’s one of the questions I asked myself: how carbonated is this stuff? I belch but the gas can go the other way too. If one is swilling it down this gassy sh!t can happen. Maybe the beer is so good that it’s getting drunk up fast…
At the bottom of page 240 of “How to Brew”, in his discussion on the two unfermentables in beer that contribute to body, namely unfermentable sugars and proteins, Palmer mentions that dextrins (carbohydrates that are long chain sugars) are suspected by some brewers to be the leading cause of beer farts.
It makes sense to me that mashing lower to create a more fermentable wort could solve the problem, or is worth trying, so that the beer’s sugars are broken down in your stomach rather than in your intestines.
This is what I understand to be the leading cause of beer gas.
We should have a contest. ;D
You just made me imagine a conference room full of people testing that theory at the NHC in San Diego.
Not a pleasant thought.
Maybe… then again, it might be entertaining enough to make the trip worthwhile
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Easy to imagine. I call it “club night.”
Can the starches in beans be converted…?
Are you suggesting that the OP put Beano in his wort? :o
Thank god we’ll have a 41k sq. ft room to have club night in this year - that should be enough for elbow and gas room!
Hey Drew…do they have a fume hood installed in the banquet room. Hoping so. ;D
It has been done. People use Beano to make ‘light’ beer. I have used it to try to dry out an extract RIS that was nasty sweet and ended up with bottle bombs (Well one bottle bomb).
Oscar, Yes the starches in beans can be converted. either via beano if you are going to eat them. or, if one was so inclined, via diastatic malt in a mash. (you would have to cook them first). Bean beer. mmmm.