Often I smell musty, basement smell near the Budweiser plant here in town. If the wind's blowing from that direction it will smell like a load of mildewed laundry a couple miles away. It's the only thing in the area that I can figure causing this--I mean the motels along the rail road tracks there are seedy, but I don't think their cumulative odors could stink up the whole of that stretch of Rt. 66! Nor have I noticed the rails causing this permeating smell in any other of my extensive travels. Just wondering.
2007-06-02 11:47:08 · 8 answers · asked by Clycs 4 in Environment ➔ Other - Environment
Actually what you are smelling is the processing of all the left over "spent" grains from which the sugar for the fermentation process comes from. What do you think Anheiser Busch does with all that material, especially when they make thousands of gallons of beer a day?! They make cattle feed! That's what you are smelling. It's not the by products of the fermentation or the cooking of the ingredients to make the actual beer, or the yeast smell (which actually smells) quite nice. If you want to know a lot about the different smells produced, find a homebrewer and ask to hang out with them when they make beer, you'll be quite surprised and impressed at what you find out. You'll have a new found respect for real beer making instead of the crap that the mega breweries make!
2007-06-03 11:14:57 · answer #1 · answered by ohncio 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breweries do give off an odor. I did some work in a town in Southern Ohio or Indiana once and they had a Segrams plant there. You could smell it all over town, but to them it is the smell of money. Without the plant there goes the jobs so to the people in the town which do you want? I don't think the brewery smell really hurts the air that much.
2007-06-02 12:51:55 · answer #2 · answered by Thomas S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Living in England as I do you're never that far from a brewery and whilst I've often smelt them I wouldn't say they were like mildewed laundry (maybe they are, my sense of smell is really bad).
What you can usually smell is the gases released during the fermentation process - a reaction of the yeast often mixed with barley, hops and other ingredients.
If it's a sort of warm, bread-like smell then that's probably what it is. There again, it could just be the cumulative smell of a bunch of seedy motels; I wouldn't be surprised if the bedding and curtains in some of those places had a really nasty smell.
2007-06-02 11:57:13 · answer #3 · answered by Trevor 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2016-10-06 12:43:59 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've spent a lot of time in the neighborhood that the Brooklyn Brewery is in, and never noticed anything too stinky. Then again, it is stinky ol' NYC; and I did grow up in dairy farming land, where they spread cow manure on the fields every spring. I swear, that stench would burn the little hairs right out of your noses.
2007-06-02 18:13:31 · answer #5 · answered by probrucer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your smelling yeast. Yeast is a fungus. Mold is a fungus. The musty smell you associate with in your basement is from mold.
2007-06-02 11:58:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
lol, ur hubby must be a beer drinker so his is smelled that same too.
2007-06-03 04:08:46 · answer #7 · answered by 36 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Me too.
2007-06-02 11:57:23 · answer #8 · answered by hy003002 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋