Home Brew and Gout ?

[JohnnyD]

Hi All

Since entering the home-brew hobby, I seem to keep getting spells of what I presume is gout in my left toe/foot, I don't think I am drinking any more than i was before, and have even stopped drinking beer for now, but even the wine is also causing me grief, is home brew any more likely to cause gout in any way? Is the yeast very different to commercial wine yeasts? Has anyone else suffered the same in home brew consumption? Its a bit of a drag cause it really hurts to point of not being able to walk

JD

[Capped]

My ol' man had terrible chronic gout, whether it had anything to do with the constant supply of kit beer I provided him with I dunno. But about five years back I started to get horrible pain and swelling in my left big toe. Fearing it was gout inherited from my pa, I went to the docs. Not gout but some kind of abnormal bone growth causing the whole caboodle to seize. Had to have it broken and reset with pins and stuff - 8 weeks off work. Now the other bugger has started up. Is it gout or will I have to go through the whole process again? Would be better than gout, only ever saw two things that caused my ol' man to cry real tears - the passing of me ma and the pain of gout.

[IPA]

Hi All

Since entering the home-brew hobby, I seem to keep getting spells of what I presume is gout in my left toe/foot, I don't think I am drinking any more than i was before, and have even stopped drinking beer for now, but even the wine is also causing me grief, is home brew any more likely to cause gout in any way? Is the yeast very different to commercial wine yeasts? Has anyone else suffered the same in home brew consumption? Its a bit of a drag cause it really hurts to point of not being able to walk

JD

Get the doc to prescribe you some Colchimax and carry on drinking. The alternative is to take something like Alopurinol every day for the rest of your life to reduce your uric acid level and even then it does not work for everybody.

[Capped]

The alternative is to take something like Alopurinol every day for the rest of your life to reduce your uric acid level and even then it does not work for everybody.

That must be good stuff - I remember picking up me ol' man's repeat prescription for it 30 years ago! Anyways I've been supping homebrew for longer than that and despite my hereditary predisposition to gout I've had no sign of it.

[BrewHouse]

Whether the gout is caused by the homebrew or not, I couldn't comment. However, I had the same problem which persisted for a couple of years. Whenever we had a drinking session I was struck down with gout. A friend then recommended concentrated cherry juice and I have never had a problem since. I use Cherry Active which comes in 2 forms, both of which I get on line through Amazon. The liquid concentrate is really expensive, but the tablets are about £8 for 60 tablets and I take 1 a day whether I am drinking or not. If I know that we have a bit of a boozy session planned, then I will have a swig from the liquid concentrate (a bit like taking a tiny nip direct from a bottle of cough mixture) during the day. I have not had a single bout of gout over the last year. I would highly recommend it.

[Mr. Dripping]

A friend of mine had gout. It is caused by the blood being too acidic and allowing crystals of uric to accumulate in the joints.
He found something online about drinking water with baking powder to alkalise the blood and allow the crystals to dissolve.....worked very well for him.

[Geezah]

I have had gout 3 times this year and I have identified that cider and beef are the cause.

You need to identify what in your diet / drinking is causing gout by monitoring and changing your diet till you can switch the problem off and on, then drop that / those items from your intake.

Your body is complaining about something, remedies do not cure the cause.

[scotsloon]

I had a few attacks of gout about 10 years ago, they were sufficiently bad that the Dr advised me to inform the DVLA. At the same time I started taking a small amount of Vinegar Cider and cucumber. This helped. I've also set up a regimen of cycling regularly and haven't been bothered with Gout since. I also am happy to quaff my home brew with no ill effects.