Adding a penny during boil to stop hops boiling over?

[pbunt911]

Bacteria left on the moon for years was later found to still be alive. So go ahead and doubt it, but regardless there's still lots of bacteria present.


Rev.

Intelligent, insightful people are much easier to appreciate when they’re not so condescending about it. You remind me why I always seem to regret soliciting feedback and asking questions on forums like this one.

As you were.

 

[cklages]

You may want to ensure that those pennies are pre 1982, as was mentioned peenies contain very little copper these days. I ripped this off from wikipedia.

In 1982, the United States Mint began minting pennies coated in copper but made primarily of zinc. With the new zinc pennies, there is the potential for zinc toxicosis, which can be fatal. One reported case of chronic ingestion of 425 pennies (over 1 kg of zinc) resulted in death due to gastrointestinal bacterial and fungal sepsis, while another patient, who ingested 12 grams of zinc, only showed lethargy and ataxia (gross lack of coordination of muscle movements).[180] Several other cases have been reported of humans suffering zinc intoxication by the ingestion of zinc coins.[181][182]

Pennies and other small coins are sometimes ingested by dogs, resulting in the need for medical treatment to remove the foreign body. The zinc content of some coins can cause zinc toxicity, which is commonly fatal in dogs, where it causes a severe hemolytic anemia, and also liver or kidney damage; vomiting and diarrhea are possible symptoms.[183] Zinc is highly toxic in parrots and poisoning can often be fatal.[184] The consumption of fruit juices stored in galvanized cans has resulted in mass parrot poisonings with zinc.[51]

Now i'm not suggesting that you are going to throw 450 pennies in the boil, but if you start to suffer 'lethargy and ataxia (gross lack of coordination of muscle movements)' after drinking a bunch of beer, you will know that its the zinc causing all of these problems! Come to think of it, why bother brewing at all, I think I might just go eat a penny.

 

[Walker]

if you start to suffer 'lethargy and ataxia (gross lack of coordination of muscle movements)' after drinking a bunch of beer, you will know that its the zinc causing all of these problems!

LOL.

I always experience a gross lack of coordination after drinking a bunch of beer, and I am sure zinc has nothing to do with it.

 

[cklages]

as was mentioned peenies contain very little copper these days

I just noticed my typo...I should hope my peenie contains very little copper

Of course too little zinc is a problem as well. Perhaps we should be sending all of our pennies to the third world.

Zinc is an essential mineral of "exceptional biologic and public health importance".[1] Zinc deficiency affects about two billion people in the developing world and is associated with many diseases.[2] In children it causes growth retardation, delayed sexual maturation, infection susceptibility, and diarrhea, contributing to the death of about 800,000 children worldwide per year