I drank some of my lacto starter?

Mon Jun 21, 2010 5:44 am

I grew up a gallon of 1030 wort and pitched wyeast lacto, left it for about a month at room temps. It settled at the bottom. I got curious about what it would taste like, so on Friday I drank about 3/4 OZ of the wort. It was bitter sour, with a horrible weird funk to it. Just as a reference I love just about all sours, my favorite being Cantillon.

It was not the smartest thing that I've ever done. I know that lacto is naturally occurring in the digestive system, but the two different strains must have not gotten along, or maybe they teamed up together to create a boss from transformers equivalent. I felt fine for the whole day, Well until about 11 hours later, 2AM. That lacto really messed my system up. I woke up, found my way to the bathroom, where I remained for the next 15 min or so. I could not believe what such a small amount of that was capable of. I know that it was the lacto, because of the overwhelming sour smell. Anyone who has had a decent amount of sours in an evening knows what I'm talking about. If you like the smell of sours, sour beer is essentially a "poop-perfume".

The way there is no point to this, just ramblings.
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Re: I drank some of my lacto starter?

Mon Jun 21, 2010 6:30 pm

What you're describing sounds like it went a bit beyond just Lacto. I wouldn't describe lactic acid as being anywhere close to "poop". Sounds like your Lacto brew got a Pediococcus infection, which is more likely to smell like shit and give you the Leon Trotskies.
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Re: I drank some of my lacto starter?

Tue Jun 22, 2010 8:23 am

dmtaylor wrote:What you're describing sounds like it went a bit beyond just Lacto. I wouldn't describe lactic acid as being anywhere close to "poop". Sounds like your Lacto brew got a Pediococcus infection, which is more likely to smell like shit and give you the Leon Trotskies.


I didn't describe the starter as being poop like. The second paragraph was me describing what that tiny tiny sample of lacto did to my intestines. In fact my poop didn't even smell like poop after having that starter, hence the whole poop perfume phrase.
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