There are people over here a lot and adult beverages may be consumed. I drink at times myself. But I recycle all my beer cans, the money normally goes to gardening stuff, mostly compost/potting soils. But I drain them in a bucket after collecting them. So I can crush them without getting beer all over me. I normally I pour this in the compost. But what about adding it to water for plants do you see any problems with this?
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The alcohol will evaporate out of the beer, so if you just let it sit for a few days, it will be fine.
Alcohol has a boiling point of 78,4 degrees Celsius. However, even below the boiling point, liquids are already evaporating. The closer it gets to its boiling point, the quicker it evaporates (e.g. steam).
Since this boiling point is lower than water (at 100 C), the alcohol will not only evaporate, but will also tend to do so more quickly than the water in the beer. Leave a beer open for a few days and you will notice it tastes flat. This is not just because the CO2 (fizz) has left it, but is also because a good bit of the alcohol is already out of it. This is even more extreme in the case of liquors - if you leave a whiskey out for a few days and taste it, it will taste rather bland, and almost unrecognizable.
Read more: https://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_alcohol_evaporate_out_of_an_opened_beer#ixzz1fZUPgo8l
Alcohol has a boiling point of 78,4 degrees Celsius. However, even below the boiling point, liquids are already evaporating. The closer it gets to its boiling point, the quicker it evaporates (e.g. steam).
Since this boiling point is lower than water (at 100 C), the alcohol will not only evaporate, but will also tend to do so more quickly than the water in the beer. Leave a beer open for a few days and you will notice it tastes flat. This is not just because the CO2 (fizz) has left it, but is also because a good bit of the alcohol is already out of it. This is even more extreme in the case of liquors - if you leave a whiskey out for a few days and taste it, it will taste rather bland, and almost unrecognizable.
Read more: https://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_alcohol_evaporate_out_of_an_opened_beer#ixzz1fZUPgo8l
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If you have slugs, stale beer is an often used pest control for them.gixxerific wrote:There are people over here a lot and adult beverages may be consumed. I drink at times myself. But I recycle all my beer cans, the money normally goes to gardening stuff, mostly compost/potting soils. But I drain them in a bucket after collecting them.
Drown a few slugs with that beer before composting or spreading it out on a garden..
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Some of us are not temperate enough to pull our heads out of the saucer with beer in it. its drowing by beer what kills [s]us[/s], er the slugs.Dixana wrote:I was going to say something about it attracting slugs, but I do not know if it would still be attractive if it is left to absorb immediately into the ground....
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No negative effects. HmmmI do homebrew and usually throw the dregs onto the garden. I have often wondered what effect the alcohol would have, but I haven't noticed any negative effects so far!
I do homebrew and usually throw the dregs onto the garden. I have often wondered what effect the alcohol would have, but I haven't noticed any negative effects so far!
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Sorry Eric. Now that I cleaned up the double-post, your double-vision post doesn't make sense.... Or maybe you've been tapping YOUR home brew.....
OK, back on topic : I imagine home brew would be even more beneficial for the plants and soil biology since it would contain active microorganisms and enzymes.
OK, back on topic : I imagine home brew would be even more beneficial for the plants and soil biology since it would contain active microorganisms and enzymes.
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I think past-your eyes beer is better for the garden.Is the old beer just as good or better?
Past-your-eyes is a process of heating a food, usually liquid, to a specific temperature 98.6 f, for a definite length of time, 1 to 2 hours and then cooling it immediately. Relieving yourself outside.This process slows microbial growth in food. hydrochloric acid The process of heating wine for preservation purposes has been known in China since 1117,[1] and is documented in Japan in 1568 in the diary Tamonin-nikki, but the modern version involving immediate cooling was created by the French chemist and microbiologist Louis Pasteur, after whom it is named. I thought it was John Harrington and Thomas Craper? The first pasteurization test was completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard in April 1862.[2] Peeing in a cup The process was originally conceived as a way of preventing wine and beer from souring. [3] Making it sterile anyway.
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https://www.walterreeves.com/lawn-care/lawn-beer-for-fertilizer/It is true that soil micro-organisms need and consume carbohydrates and but they specialize in the complex carbohydrates found in plants, not the simple sugars found in soft drinks and beer.
https://www.doityourself.com/stry/tipsforgardencare
https://emmitsburg.net/gardens/articles/adams/2006/beer.htmIn the back of the book there is an extensive bibliography, detailing sources for much of the research the author has relied upon for his recommendations. Where necessary, he has done the scientific research himself, such as in the beer as fertilizer question (where the final results indicated that "beer is better consumed than applied to your garden.") Beer does, however, get a four-flower recommendation as a slug killer, so long as the traps are set up not only to attract the slugs but to catch them as well. In the fertilizer department, eggshells are a five-flower solution, although they shouldn't be your only source of fertilizer. The author suggests four to five crumbled shells per plant, mixed into the soil around the plant, in the garden or in a pot.
https://site.cleanairgardening.com/info/beer-as-natural-fertilizer.htmlBelieve it or not, leftover beer also makes a handy spot-fertilizer for your yard, and it's purely organic, since it's the yeast in the beer that does the job. This works best for home-brewed beer, since you end up with a thin layer of yeast on the bottom of each bottle, but it works with commercial beers too. Just collect any dregs in a plastic gallon jug; a milk jug works fine. Once you have enough, you can transfer some to a sprayer bottle and spray the solution on places in your yard that have turned brown or aren't growing well. The beer fertilizer will help the affected grass grow back in more fully. You can use it in your garden too, but it might not be as effective as other liquid fertilizers.
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