the_kitchen_brewer
Junior Member
My brother-in-law has come to the conclusion that he gets terrible headaches the next day after drinking my homebrew!
He's been getting them for a while, but only recently pieced together that he seems to get them after drinking my homebrew. For example on Saturday night he only had a small glass of my red wine and had a headache the next day, whilst my missus drank a bottle and was fine for example!
He'd had a few glasses of a commercial wine the night before and was fine next day.
He's not a big drinker so never has more than a couple of ales in a night so it's not quantity related, and I'm not one for high ABVs generally so I'm not brewing super-strength beers.
Strangely he reckons he gets it with my ales and wines but not with my force carbed lager.
Googling around for possible causes, seems unlikely to be high levels of fusel alcohols since several of us drink more of it than he does and have no headaches.
I thought maybe the fact he's ok with force carbed lager may point to him having an issue with yeast (I filter my wine, but only to about 1.5 micron) then again I don't filter my force carb lager at all, and I've heard of people having upset tummies from yeast but never headaches.
Can anyone think of an ingredient present in homebrew but not in commercial brews? Starsan maybe?
Psychosomatic?
He's been getting them for a while, but only recently pieced together that he seems to get them after drinking my homebrew. For example on Saturday night he only had a small glass of my red wine and had a headache the next day, whilst my missus drank a bottle and was fine for example!
He'd had a few glasses of a commercial wine the night before and was fine next day.
He's not a big drinker so never has more than a couple of ales in a night so it's not quantity related, and I'm not one for high ABVs generally so I'm not brewing super-strength beers.
Strangely he reckons he gets it with my ales and wines but not with my force carbed lager.
Googling around for possible causes, seems unlikely to be high levels of fusel alcohols since several of us drink more of it than he does and have no headaches.
I thought maybe the fact he's ok with force carbed lager may point to him having an issue with yeast (I filter my wine, but only to about 1.5 micron) then again I don't filter my force carb lager at all, and I've heard of people having upset tummies from yeast but never headaches.
Can anyone think of an ingredient present in homebrew but not in commercial brews? Starsan maybe?
Psychosomatic?