RdeVjun
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Gooday AHB Folks,
I have about 8 crates of surplus Schott bottles to give away. There's a mixture of 500ml and 1000ml with red and blue lids, they're autoclavable borosilicate glass and quite tough. They are very popular in laboratories with an endless number of different applications. Schott bottles can be boiled and then cooled while sealed, which has distinct advantages for storing sterile starter wort and working with yeast in general. I use them for harvesting yeast cake, rehydrating dried yeast, preparing starters- this sort of thing. A few other folks on the boards here that use them can comment on their utility, I think they're just brilliant and like a tough, sealable Erlenmeyer Flask with a screwtop lid.
I would prefer to send whole crates to home brew clubs, yeast ninja/farming groups for distribution to members. However, individuals are of course welcome to PM me if they want some, to be fair I'd be limiting the number for each individual, and the cost of freight would be their own responsibility, although I'll package them up appropriately of course.
Also there are a few boxes of surplus 5L glass bottles, about 4" neck, probably a dozen bottles all up. They're not very thick- walled (I accidentally broke one with ease yesterday), photos to come next week.
If you're wondering, I work in the public sector, all of these bottles were used for sampling surfacewater in a now- complete research project. Labs now supply prepared bottles and so these surplus bottles would otherwise be dumped, they've already been granted a reprieve from the industrial bin and I have been given the authority to dispose of them constructively. This sort of giveaway would just about be a first for the public sector, its notorious for wasting stuff by just tossing perfectly good equipment like this...
When I get a feel for the number of takers, I'll divvy them up evenly. So, you know the story- first in, best dressed! :icon_cheers:
I have about 8 crates of surplus Schott bottles to give away. There's a mixture of 500ml and 1000ml with red and blue lids, they're autoclavable borosilicate glass and quite tough. They are very popular in laboratories with an endless number of different applications. Schott bottles can be boiled and then cooled while sealed, which has distinct advantages for storing sterile starter wort and working with yeast in general. I use them for harvesting yeast cake, rehydrating dried yeast, preparing starters- this sort of thing. A few other folks on the boards here that use them can comment on their utility, I think they're just brilliant and like a tough, sealable Erlenmeyer Flask with a screwtop lid.
I would prefer to send whole crates to home brew clubs, yeast ninja/farming groups for distribution to members. However, individuals are of course welcome to PM me if they want some, to be fair I'd be limiting the number for each individual, and the cost of freight would be their own responsibility, although I'll package them up appropriately of course.
Also there are a few boxes of surplus 5L glass bottles, about 4" neck, probably a dozen bottles all up. They're not very thick- walled (I accidentally broke one with ease yesterday), photos to come next week.
If you're wondering, I work in the public sector, all of these bottles were used for sampling surfacewater in a now- complete research project. Labs now supply prepared bottles and so these surplus bottles would otherwise be dumped, they've already been granted a reprieve from the industrial bin and I have been given the authority to dispose of them constructively. This sort of giveaway would just about be a first for the public sector, its notorious for wasting stuff by just tossing perfectly good equipment like this...
When I get a feel for the number of takers, I'll divvy them up evenly. So, you know the story- first in, best dressed! :icon_cheers: