Leaded Beer, a Horror Story

[jsguitar]

You could get a water test kit and see if it's above level recommended safe by the kit.

This is a good idea so you don't just waste it. It might not be very contaminated. With that said, the recommended safe levels for water are probably more focused on the safety of children and pregnant mothers who would be consuming the lead over a long period of time, so they're set lower than what I'd be concerned with for myself in this situation. You have to do what you feel comfortable with though.

Oh, and what a little brat!

 

[jsguitar]

Well, thanks for the advice guys! I'll buy a water test kit (just in case), but otherwise i'm glad I didn't toss it right away.

Oops, just saw that you're doing that. Good idea and good luck!

 

[O'Haggerty]

Or..... you could send me a bottle and I'll titrate out the exact % ppb for you in my chem lab. And once it's fine, I'll drink it and critique your brewing skills for free as well.

But let me know in all seriousness I can test it for you. Off the shelf test kits are pretty low in the precision department.

 

[Jedsterr]

Nuke the whole planet from orbit.

It's the only way to be sure.

Seriously, this comment is gold! Pure gold!

 

[el_caro]

If it was me I would be getting in a real estate agent pronto to sell up an move on to a better area where the neighbors are not druggies.

 

[dwarven_stout]

Seriously, this comment is gold! Pure gold!

lol.. glad someone liked it.

 

[rollinred]

I had a fishing buddy/classmate years ago that use to chew on lead sinkers for fishing. I can remember him doing this since we were very young. Oh yeah, he use to swallow them to. No joke.

I have no doubt that lead is bad, but it is in every glass of water you drink and even in most foods. I will avoid it in most cases but when it comes to a batch of beer and a few pellets... screw that, I will let my body do the hard work and excrete the stuff.

 

[SwampassJ]

Well hell in that case i am glad i did it! I am already too damn much smarter than all my friends, they drink BMC beer, if i was any smarter i prolly couldnt stand them!:rockin:

If you think you're smart now drive over to Chiicothe. I felt like I was from NASA there.

 

[SwampassJ]

do. Sheesh, we're taking advice from some who doesn't have 3rd grade grammar skills.


wow, i've learned to not turn your back on drunk buddies for a second! Sorry man. Though he was right. It's "do" not due.

ಠ_ಠ

 

[git_dr1]

If you found the pellets I wouldn't sweat it. We have cooked small game for years that have been taken with a shotgun. You can never get all the shot when cleaning the animals. We always find a bb or two after cooking it.

 

[TrainSafe]

Children’s lead exposure is linked to crime, according to the Wisconsin State Journal, February 7, 1996. " Researchers using a new test that looks for lead in the bones instead of the blood say exposure to the toxic metal may contribute to crime and anti-social behavior in children.".

I think this might explain the neighbors.

 

[bambam190]

Here is the cure

step 1) remove the BBs from the beer

step 2) determine if they are in fact lead

step 3) load BB gun

step 4) shoot neighbors in the @$$ for not raising their child better.

step 5) enjoy your homebrew

 

[boilmeimirish]

Or..... you could send me a bottle and I'll titrate out the exact % ppb for you in my chem lab. And once it's fine, I'll drink it and critique your brewing skills for free as well.

But let me know in all seriousness I can test it for you. Off the shelf test kits are pretty low in the precision department.

O'Haggerty,

That's tempting. I could bottle some into an old whitelabs yeast vial and ship it. In fact, that'd be excellent.

If you're really offering, then I'm accepting.

PM your address, ya?

~Mike

 

[isurf]

I'm fairly certain that over the years I've swallowed more than 8 lead pellets from pheasants I've shot. You'll be ok.

Just like Engineer said, growing up shooting and eating alot of quail I remember culling the lead pellets out as I ate, that the other half got went on down. Don't sweat it just don't make it a habbit.

 

[lschiavo]

If you found the pellets I wouldn't sweat it. We have cooked small game for years that have been taken with a shotgun. You can never get all the shot when cleaning the animals. We always find a bb or two after cooking it.

Back in the day when my brain was bring damaged they were lead. Aren't they now antimony or something else? I may be way off...like I said my brain is damaged.

 

[git_dr1]

Back in the day when my brain was bring damaged they were lead. Aren't they now antimony or something else? I may be way off...like I said my brain is damaged.

Antimony is added to make the bb's harder but the majority of the bb's are still mostly lead.