Recent content by zbouri

"We used a roboticized MCF-7 cell proliferation assay... to quantify the EA of chemicals leached into saline or ethanol extracts of many types of commercially available plastic materials, some exposed to common-use stresses... Results: Almost all commercially available plastic products we...

I just posted this in the Home Depot bucket thread, but I thought more people should see it since so many use plastic buckets. The peer-reviewed, National Institute of Health journal 'Environmental Health Perspectives' tested over 200 products with different types and combinations of...

ALL plastics are toxic. BPA is just the most recent one to get attention. The peer-reviewed journal 'Environmental Health Perspectives' tested over 200 products with different types and combinations of new-generation 'food safe' plastics, and found that 95% released endocrine disrupting...

Still no action, gonna get fresh yeast tomorrow if I still see nothing in the morning. Thing is, I still haven't refrigerated the wort because I've been working and that will take some rearranging of.. well lots of ****. the (non-aerated) wort is still sitting covered in the brew kettle...

Dang it no, it was liquid yeast. Pitched into the starter at 100 degrees. darn. I've brewed quite a few good beers but messing around with starters is new to me. I usually just pitch from the vial.

My WLP039 yeast was 7 weeks expired. It was left out in the cold overnight a month ago but didn't appear to freeze though the water bottle next to it was ice. So I stored it in the fridge and let it warm up overnight before brew day. Made a ghetto starter with a pint of boiled and cooled...