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studentofbeer
03-20-2006, 07:47 PM
well as i posted earlier i just transferred my mead to secondary. i took a few sips to taste, and around that time i also developed a terrible stomach ache. i mean, i'm really not feeling good now. i can't say it was the mead for sure, but that's the best bet.

does anyone know why this might happen? is something wrong with the batch even tho it tastes ok? or could it just be something to do with it not being "done" yet?

i'm just curious what might do that to a person.
Triple Freak
03-20-2006, 10:51 PM
Maybe you have an ulcer.
studentofbeer
03-21-2006, 11:40 AM
something was awry, i spent much of my night hanging over the toilet... can mead have a bug like this or was it the sandwich i ate for lunch? now i'm scared to taste the mead again. but i always thought nothing that bad could survive in mead. hrmm.
mookow
03-21-2006, 11:49 AM
Papazian says that there are no known pathogens that will survive in beer. I wouldnt think any would survive in mead, either, but I dont know.
Payson
03-21-2006, 11:53 AM
Papazian says that there are no known pathogens that will survive in beer. I wouldnt think any would survive in mead, either, but I dont know.

The above coupled with the fact that it tasted "OK" lead me to believe it's not the mead....
zoom6zoom
03-21-2006, 01:33 PM
Honey is a natural anti-biotic, often applied directly to wounds.

Maybe you're allergic to it. Better not take a chance on keeping it around, if you send it to us we'll dispose of it for you.
Vienna Lager
03-21-2006, 01:36 PM
Would guess the sandwich was the culprit as the time line would be about right, 6-10 hrs for food poisoning and your Mead was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.
DecoJuicer
03-21-2006, 02:08 PM
What kind of sandwich was it? Was the meat funny colored? I agree with zoom, you should send the mead to us for disposal right away.
Beer Monkey
03-21-2006, 02:25 PM
proper disposal will be the best bet.
HogieWan
03-21-2006, 02:58 PM
no known pathogens can survive with ethanol - so as soon as fermentation gets going, it's safe to drink. This is why people drank beer or wine before water back in the day - the alcohol made it safe.
fuji6100
03-21-2006, 05:04 PM
Would guess the sandwich was the culprit as the time line would be about right, 6-10 hrs for food poisoning and your Mead was just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Most "food poisonings" in civilized countries (ie... not third world countries where parasites are the major food contaminate) show symptoms between 30 minutes and 4 hours after consumption. Other contaminates that show up later (ie... amoebic dysentary) most often affect the bowel, not the stomach.

I agree, however, that it most likely was not anything infectious in the mead.
cluckk
03-26-2006, 03:12 AM
No it was definitely the mead! Send it to one of us right away to properly handle this hazard for you.

Thats a bullet I'm willing to catch, just for you.
The Beerbellian
03-27-2006, 08:41 PM
I'm not sure but, is it possible you may have mixed up a bit of the yeast or, maybe, it may have had just a little too much yeast in solution at the time you drank it? I once gave a neighbor a bottle of homebrew and he got sick almost immediatly after drinking it, he then told me he had stored it on it's side just before he opened it, the same sort of thing happened to me when I made my first batch with a Mr. Beer, after doing a little reading in the How to Brew book I found out yeast, while a wonderful partner most times, can have some nasty side affects.