Bad beer?

[Nate tha' Great]

Is it plausible to get food-poisining type symptoms from skunky beer? Assume for purposes of this exercise that you are accurately able to distinguish food-poisining type syptoms from a garden variety hangover.

[wacki]

If you open up a beer and then leave it out in the sun for a few days....

Yes, you can get food poisoning from bad beer.

[Beerfund]

Bad beer = oxymoron

[scotty34]

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Bad beer = oxymoron

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no, Bad beer = Pabst Blue Ribbon

[Alobar]

skunk beer can give you the shits and what not...but actual food poisening? I suppose its possible, wacki would know better than I

[Nate tha' Great]

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If you open up a beer and then leave it out in the sun for a few days....

Yes, you can get food poisoning from bad beer.

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The beer in question was a "fresh" 6-pack, and I didn't notice anything especially funny about the taste. That said, it was purchased from a pretty sketchy liquor store.

[Nate tha' Great]

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skunk beer can give you the shits and what not...but actual food poisening? I suppose its possible, wacki would know better than I

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I didn't say food poisining, but food-positiing-type-symptoms, e.g. the shits, severe nausea, no headache really and clears up suddenly and completely after one good night's sleep.

[miajag81]

I think it is much more likely that it came from something else you ate/drank.

[jakethebake]

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I didn't say food poisining, but food-positiing-type-symptoms, e.g. the shits, severe nausea, no headache really and clears up suddenly and completely after one good night's sleep.

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Try washing your hands after you take a [censored].

[Beerfund]

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The beer in question was a "fresh" 6-pack,

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That's your problem right there, never buy less than a case. That's just wasteful.

[wacki]

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=food+poisoning+beer&btnG=Google+Sea rch

first link

LInky (http://www.foodstandards.gov.au/mediareleasespublications/mediareleases/mediareleases2001/saveyourfamilyfromfo1166.cfm)


Chairman of the Food Safety Information Council, Barry Shay

"At least the beer can't cause food poisoning"

A few things that are your friends in this situation:

1) pasteurization - most commercial beers are pasteurized
2) alcohol - kills the germs
3) airtight seal on can - keeps germs out

Beer is such a good preservative that in the 18th century sailors carried spruce beer because it kept better then plain old water. Fresh water was known only to keep for about a month on the boats before being infested with bacteria.

Beer is good mmmkay.

http://www.learnersportal.com/NewWorld/new.html

[LALDAAS]

Bad beer? Silly man there is no such animal

[wacki]

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The beer in question was a "fresh" 6-pack, and I didn't notice anything especially funny about the taste. That said, it was purchased from a pretty sketchy liquor store.

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If the bottle popped, you are most likely ok. I forgot to mention that CO2 is a preservative as well. If you felt a buz, the beer was most likely ok.

It would be an extremely rare case, my rough estimate 1 in a billion, for you to get e coli from beer. Possible, but not plausible.

[Nate tha' Great]

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I think it is much more likely that it came from something else you ate/drank.

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I did have Chipotle tacos earlier that afternoon.

[bugstud]

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I think it is much more likely that it came from something else you ate/drank.

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I did have Chipotle tacos earlier that afternoon.

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ok, so that's solved.

[Phoenix1010]

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Bad beer = oxymoron

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no, Bad beer = Pabst Blue Ribbon

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Don't dis the PBR. It's a special quality beer, says so on the can.

[SomethingClever]

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Don't dis the PBR. It's a special quality beer, says so on the can.

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Plus, it won a blue ribbon back in like 1865.