Is it safe to brew?

[mbobhat]

So are you gonna tell people where it came from, or just leave it to your lawyer like the acceptable level of spiders in peanut butter?

Maybe tell them after, like with the duck pond beer. You can tell them you are recreating beer made at the dawn of civilization, must've had some rat poop in there. Plus they just look like roasted grains

 

[GenIke]

I don't give a rats ass what the OP tells people about his beer.

 

[ColoHox]

You can kill most microbes by boiling, yes. My concern would be endo/exotoxins that are heat tolerant. To each his own. Bugs...maybe. Mammals...not me.

Endotoxin is everywhere. It is on you now, as we speak, and all over everyone's grain. Exotoxins are heat-labile.

 

[funnycreature]

I wanna hear him singing Megadeth: "Hello, me. Meet... the real me. And my... misfits... way of life...":rockin:

Life? What do you mean life? I ain't got a life!

 

[mbobhat]

I don't give a rats ass what the OP tells people about his beer.

The rats sure gave a crap. Stinks to me:cross:

 

[gmcapone]

I apologize I'm. Kind of thinking. As I'm typing. Doing other things. Badly as well. I have a.short window of. Free time to. Enjoy before I. Go to bed. And have to. Get up early. To do it. All over again.

lol, I just realized all the pauses make me sound like William Shatner reading this.

 

[gmcapone]

Take it easy on him, he's just giving his best Captain Kirk impession

Apparently I wasn't the only person.

 

[mbobhat]

Some rat humor from the show Portlandia:

 

[marty1776]

Endotoxin is everywhere. It is on you now, as we speak, and all over everyone's grain. Exotoxins are heat-labile.

You're right. But in a concentration to cause problems? Likely not, depends on your hygiene I guess. My concern would be in toxin causing organisms in the bio-load the feces contains. My two cents-not worth it.

Moths/weevils ok. Poop no is ok.
(although, grain silos are great locations to raise a family if you're a critter and I'm sure there is excrement in each of my sacks of grain.)

 

[Rbeckett]

Lead poisoning usually solves a beastie problem nicely. Now if you only had one your golden, but don't let yer guard down because it is usually mr and mrs mouse and there happy lil family. I got the 13 gallon screw top fermentor off of Ebay to store my grain. Lil bastid wont chew through that....An my grain stays fresher longer....I'm down with that.

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