:o
Well, I think we all know how my equipment will be sanitized from now on. ;D
That’s one way to get the job done. What did you use…isopropyl?
I had no idea star san was flammable!
:), That is not me… I have burned off eyelashes and eyebrows way too many times in the past.
I just encountered it on the interweb, and found it interesting.
Hopefully the Weeze will report back. ;D I bet it sounds cool at the end.
A few ounces of Everclear might do that. You need something as close to 100% alcohol as you can reasonably get, though. (Ethanol or isopropanol should work, isopropanol’s probably cheaper for tax reasons.) As opposed to alcohol sterilizing without flame, where 70% is the ideal strength.
I get back home to Idaho Saturday, and will begin experimentation. My first thought is some mix of gunpower andgasoline. Will post findings Sunday.
…from his room in the intensive care unit.
anyone else shiver from seeing a glass carboy sitting directly on bare concrete?
…with fire in it…yeah, I did.
I wonder if denatured alcohol would work? Hmmm. Pretty much ethanol by any other name with a few more toxic additives in it.
I don’t think I want to risk a carboy, much less my legs, arm or an y of my epidermis really, to testing it out though.
Let us know how it goes Weaze.
Paul
It’s probably illogical, but I don’t think I’d want denatured alcohol anywhere near my beerware. Which seems irrational on closer observation, given that it probably would burn off completely.
Even after that, I’m not sure I’d trust the match to be sanitary.
I’d never use denature alcohol to try and sanitize anything either. I was just thinking about what I had on the chemical shelf in the shop. 
The way my luck goes it would explode and give my wife another “told you so” moment. Once I could hear again and the stitches were all in.
Paul
must.
resist.
urge.
to.
try.
My boss has seen that gif. I’m giving it about a week til he tries it in the lab. (Mind you, those will probably be Kimax carboys, but still…) ;D
We used to drop matches into empty bottles of Bacardi 151 and it did essentially the same thing only faster.
If it’s who I think it is he’ll probably try it alone the first time and only tell you if it works… 
Not sure who you’re thinking of. This is the guy who put all the dud fireworks in a 5 gallon pail in his yard last 4th of July, poured gasoline on them, and lit it. Gotta love crazy professors!
(Edit: Note that that was a plastic 5-gal bucket. The thing melted before the fireworks were half done.)
Well, if you aren’t crazy yet, a few semesters at Purdue will do it.
I had Dr. Lewis for micro, but come to think of it that was over a decade ago.