This is a homebrewing gone wrong story!

[backyard brewer]

When a 61-year-old man with a blood alcohol level of 0.37 percent told emergency room workers in Texas that he hadn't had a drink all day, they were skeptical. However, Dr. Barbara Cordell, the dean of nursing at Panola College, Texas, and Dr. Justin McCarthy, a gastroenterologist, investigated the man's case. They found that, even when he was isolated in a hospital room for 24 hours on a controlled diet, at one point his blood alcohol level still rose to 0.12 percent.

It turned out the home-brewer had an overabundance of brewer's yeast in his gut, which, according to McCarthy and Cordell, was fermenting sugars in his diet — from foods such as a bagel or a soda — into ethanol. The doctors reported it as a case of "auto-brewery syndrome." Experts say further study into the rare syndrome is needed, but it doesn't actually sound like much fun. "[The man] would get drunk out of the blue — on a Sunday morning after being at church, or really, just anytime," Dr. Cordell told NPR. "His wife was so dismayed about it that she even bought a Breathalyzer."

[lexuschris]

This sounded so far-fetched .. so I had to dig a bit further...

http://file.scirp.org/Html/1-2100535_33912.htm

Its true. Here is the case study with some more detail on the science behind it.

Fascinating!
--LexusChris

[Maltose Parrot]

HOLY CRAP! So, I could eat some two row and Cascades, and be drunk on IPA by nightfall?

[backhousebrew]

No more 6 hour brew days!

[BrewMasterBrad]

Easy cure. Drink some StarSan.