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Bottulism bacteria is killed by boiling but the toxin is still present.
<br><b><font size=+2>Throw the can away!</font></b>
<p>PBLoomis@aol.com wrote:
<blockquote TYPE=CITE>In a message dated 7/13/99 10:25:31 AM EST, lcatherinemc@hotmail.com
writes:
<p><< Please excuse the stupid question, but I'm a newbie
to this list, and a
<br> somewhat new brewer.(have brewed some meads and May wines and
cysers.) I
<br> bough a "Beer kit" from a local brew shop, wanting to use it
as a learner
<br> project, some moths ago. Well, life happens, and I just
got around to it
<br>the
<br> other day. It had been stored on top of the refrigerator,
and when I took
<br> it down to use. I found that the bottom of the can had bulged
out. Is this
<br> usable now? I know that bulging cans of food are to be
thrown out, but know
<br> nothing of beer kits, this being my first.
<p> Lady Katherine McGuire
<br> Barony of Califia >>
<p> The top of the refrigerator
is generally a very warm place, so
<br>it may just be normal expansion of the extract inside the can, but
<br>I'd be nervous, as you are.
<br> The heat may also have damaged
the dry yeast packet that
<br>came with your Beerkit.
<br> Anybody out there know if
[worst case] botulism toxin is
<br>denatured by boiling?
<br> In Joy and Service,
<br> Scotti
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