Last night I had a couple of glasses of some cider I brewed a couple of weeks back. Now, normally I don’t get hangovers. A slightly fuzzy head perhaps, but nothing like this!
I feel like there is a little guy in my head mashing up my brain with a sledgehammer!
The juice I brewed to make the cider was unfiltered, so I am hypothesising that the yeasties chomped up the cellulose and produced methanol, an essential ingredient in any really top class hangover.
Thoughts?
-Oli
You may have had an alergic reaction to the yeast. Were your sinuses clogged up causing a massive headache?
Some people have a similar reaction to dark draft beer that is not pasteurized to kill the yeast.
A couple of weeks seems a pretty quick secondary ferment fo cider. That’d be a bare minimum for an ale, and I’ve always found cider took a whole lot longer to be ready. Was it sweet and flat?
No, actually, It was quite harsh… at a guess, I’d say about 8%. Lightly carbonated. I’ve never brewed before. I just shoved an airlock on the top of a juice bottle and brewed in that. Turned out suprisingly drinkable.
-Oli
No, actually, It was quite harsh… at a guess, I’d say about 8%. Lightly carbonated. I’ve never brewed before. I just shoved an airlock on the top of a juice bottle and brewed in that. Turned out suprisingly drinkable. I used one of those “Oztops” kits.
-Oli