If you prefer ... dead yeast

earthwormgaz · May 6, 2016

Ay up,

I'm just pouring a bottle of The Kernel Brewery, Export India Porter. It's 5.8%, and very hoppy it seems, quite nice.

Anyway, on the back, it says "this beer is bottle conditioned, pour carefully if you prefer to leave the yeast sediment inside the bottle".

Is it a preference thing? Do some of you drink it?

I was under the impression that drinking yeast gave you the ****s, and was to be avoided. So the sludge off bottle conditioned bottles, or ale that hasn't fully fermented yet?

SwissBrew · May 6, 2016

earthwormgaz said:
Ay up,

I'm just pouring a bottle of The Kernel Brewery, Export India Porter. It's 5.8%, and very hoppy it seems, quite nice.

Anyway, on the back, it says "this beer is bottle conditioned, pour carefully if you prefer to leave the yeast sediment inside the bottle".

Is it a preference thing? Do some of you drink it?

I was under the impression that drinking yeast gave you the ****s, and was to be avoided. So the sludge off bottle conditioned bottles, or ale that hasn't fully fermented yet?

On the continent we swirl the yeast up in the bottle and drink it. It's a total ritual...but too many and you **** though the eyemof a needle :-?

MyQul · May 6, 2016

I think it can give you gout @slid can fill you in a bit more on this

Covrich · May 6, 2016

Before I brewed I never even was aware of it and up ended many bottles.

I remember on a St Austells Proper Job seeing lots of floating particles and thinking what is all that?

Like swiss says a lot of well wheat beers in particular they roll the bottle or swish the trub in at the end.. not sure whether I am going to try that yet though..

Leon103 · May 6, 2016

Its good for you.

SwissBrew · May 7, 2016

Covrich said:
Before I brewed I never even was aware of it and up ended many bottles.

I remember on a St Austells Proper Job seeing lots of floating particles and thinking what is all that?

Like swiss says a lot of well wheat beers in particular they roll the bottle or swish the trub in at the end.. not sure whether I am going to try that yet though..

Yup, roll the bottle, swish, swirl, roll...think of all the vitamins and get it down ya. Tastes nice..but now I have this gout image in my head :-?

Slid · May 7, 2016

MyQul said:
I think it can give you gout @slid can fill you in a bit more on this

Yes, well, unfortunately the root cause of gout is a diet high in chemical compounds known as purines. These are formed naturally as a by-product of anaerobic respiration. A rather obvious example of which would be fermenting yeast.

So, I would not deliberately increase the number of yeast cells ingested. I am sure my initial habit of drinking the yeasty bit at the bottom of bottles led to my issues with gout. Would not wish it on anyone, so please beware.

Cwrw666 · May 7, 2016

I might point out that there's a bit of a difference between a commercial `bottle conditioned' beer with a faint haze of yeast in the bottom of the bottle and the quarter inch or so of sludge some of us homebrewers produce in ours.

Gunge · Dec 3, 2016

Good God no! Beer has got to be star-bright! Not sure if yeasty stuff is bad for you though. Don't brewers sell it off to make Marmite amongst other things? I've never heard of that causing intestinal shenanigans.

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