Look what I found in my classroom this morning

BoxofRain · Oct 21, 2008

A biology teacher uses my classroom for the final period of the day. This is what I found on my desk this morning:

Found out later it was gatorade and baking yeast. Probably would taste salty. I wonder if they have an old stirplate in their labs...

Saccharomyces · Oct 21, 2008

I'd swap it out with wort and see if you get any comments.

Jaybird · Oct 22, 2008

Hmmm... Bruno???? way to teach kids to brew like a Marine LOL

ifishsum · Oct 22, 2008

In my HS chemistry class (1984) we actually fermented and distilled hooch as a lab experiment. We each fermented a small batch of liquor in our desk (about a liter using the sugar or your choice, I used honey) then distilled it, and it had to be strong enough to burn for passing grade. Of course nobody drank the end result

Mirage · Oct 22, 2008

LOL, that is an awesome experiment. Reminds me of summer vacation where we used Graves as a campfire starter.

malkore · Oct 23, 2008

ifishsum said:
and it had to be strong enough to burn for passing grade.

Burn when tasted, or burn as in 'ignite'?

that's pretty hard to make a flammable alcohol concentration without distillation.

Clayton · Oct 23, 2008

"then distilled it, and it had to be strong enough to burn for passing grade"
that was part of it

ifishsum · Oct 24, 2008

We did distill it, in fact IIRC I distilled mine twice because it didn't burn the first time.

Rottnme · Oct 24, 2008

Mirage said:
LOL, that is an awesome experiment. Reminds me of summer vacation where we used Graves as a campfire starter.

I've done that more times than I care to admit. Oh the memories....

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