Any truth to this?
Maybe, but what’s the point? Want to drink all night and not get drunk? Drink water. All that trick does is make you spend a whole bunch of money and not even get a buzz.
He likes the taste of beer. He tastes many different beers at events but would prefer to not be drunk.
I doubt it. The low pH value of your stomach is going to strongly inhibit the ADH enzymes. (I assume that’s the general gist here, that ADH will break the alcohol down into its constituents before it can get into your bloodstream and make you drunk?)
If you want to drink without getting drunk, your best bet is to limit yourself to only one drink an hour.
I doubt it works; what would yeast do? They don’t metabolize alcohol, which is actually a waste product of theirs.
At best, you get a dose of B-vitamins and whatever else nutritional substances are in a teaspoon of dried yeast.
Anecdotally, you can get plenty drunk on bottle-conditioned commercial beers and homebrew, both of which are loaded with yeast of the same species, if not strain.
I’m going to a beer tasting this weekend. We try to drink an ounce of water for every ounce of beer consumed. Also, if I really like a beer, I buy some to take home instead of drinking more of it at the tasting. Develop a marathon (vs sprint) attitude. Eat a pretzel or two.
Koch yes. Anybody else, no. The “trick” would be slightly useful, if true, only at a beer festival or the like. Even there, if you just pace yourself you’ll be fine.
Seconding bump and kayaker’s posts as well.
After reading up on alcohol dehydrogenase, it sounds like if you had enough yeast, it might work. Apparently yeast will create alcohol up to the point when there’s no sugar left, and then will work on the alcohol.
However, I’d think anything with sugar or carbs in your stomach would prevent the yeast from doing this. Plus, Inner Stickler’s point is still valid.
Here’s an answer that agrees with **Inner Stickler **and goes into some more detail.
There’s also a rare condition that results in yeast growing in the stomach and getting the host drunk without touching a drop.
When I’ve done wine tasting, we spit out the wine afterwards.
That’s why wine drinkers are generally considered much less sophisticated than beer drinkers. 
Beer drinkers swallow.
I would suggest a better wine.
Excellent post! (IMHO)
What a coincidence! When I’ve done beer swilling, we spew out the beer afterwards.
I had a roommate back in Texas who would always start a night of drinking with a big ol’ order of a greasy hamburger and fries at this one hamburger stand. He claimed it worked like a charm. You’d still get a buzz, just not falling-down drunk, and you could still drive. Or so he claimed.
Mostly off topic but it reminded me of a joke my brother used to tell; something along the lines of… “I spent so much money on drinking last night, I had to trade a blow job for a sandwich. You know what the moral of that story is? Yep, eat before you go out!”
I have heard that the B vitamins is yeast helps prevent hangovers. Could the reporter have misheard “not be hung over” as “not be drunk?”
I’m not convinced the Jim Koch, great guy that he is, drinks that much beer. He may taste a lot of beers but he is way too skinny to be drinking that much.
Excellent! I’ll file it in my Emergency Handbook of Unlikely Endeavors, along with “how to eat at a buffet and never feel sated” and “how to masturbate for hours and not feel a thing.”
So I’m trying to imagine the scenario. Do you belly up to the bar with your jar of yeast, pint of yogurt and a spoon and just slurp away? Or do you carry a bag with you and sneak off to the bathroom between drinks?
It might be good for designated drivers. Or for some people who like to drink, but are on medication, so they can’t drink a lot.
(I love beer, but I can’t drink a lot of it.)