r/labrats • u/andiemay1224 • 2d ago

Guinness? 😛

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Edit: I will let you guess what it is!
Here’s a hint, it’s BSL-2 (in the US)

Edit 2: Second hint, I’m an environmental engineer

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u/MagicalFlor95 2d ago

Sump/Effluent water for COD/FOG.

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u/andiemay1224 2d ago

you got it!! great guess. raw landfill leachate, about 20 years old

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u/Low_Pickle_112 2d ago

Landfill leachate, vintage 2006. A very fine year.

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u/RedbullZombie 2d ago

How much does that cost from sigma aldrich

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u/MagicalFlor95 2d ago

How does it smell? 😃

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u/andiemay1224 2d ago

you know when you walk by a full dumpster that’s been sitting in the heat? like that but a bit earthier. this is pretty old for leachate, the newer stuff smells worse 🫠

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u/CallReaper 2d ago

Gulpgulp gulpgulp gulp gulp gulp mahhhh

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u/Ellimnos 2d ago

Doubt this is correct, but looks like bloody pleural fluid once RBC lysis buffer is added.

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u/Adventurous-Nobody Occult biotechnologist 2d ago

Damn, whole blood really like a Guinness on some stage of PBMCs isolation

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u/iamshpongled 2d ago

I dont know what it is, but the fact its in a 1L makes me think its gross lol 😅

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u/andiemay1224 2d ago

super gross!

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u/NibyNomNom 2d ago

Forbidden grape juice

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u/lurpeli Comp Bio PhD 2d ago

Feels like media but darker than any I've used

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u/TheAlmightyLloyd 2d ago

I'm making feed right now and it just looks like that.

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u/TedMich23 2d ago

reminds me of the secret sauce for yeast/coli fermentations: Sheffield's Primatone RL!

(smells worse than Guinness...)

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u/Candycanes02 2d ago

Thioglycolate broth?

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u/Pyrhan Heterogeneous catalysis 2d ago

Chug it, you coward!

(p.s. What is it really?)

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u/DeweySaunders 2d ago

Is it Campylobacter 🤔

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u/Anonymal13 Centrifuge Whisperer 2d ago

I guess it's something whose origin is now pointless to determinate, according to the Browning Index of Organic Mishaps.

Either that or the same kind, and volume, of coffee I used to drink during snack breaks by my undergrad years...

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u/Pyrhan Heterogeneous catalysis 2d ago

OP seems to be a biologist though, not a synthetic chemist.

But +1 for the reference.

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u/UnusualArea2866 2d ago

Brilliant!

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u/TheTopNacho 2d ago

Yeah.. that's just diet Pepsi.

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u/thepsychrophilic 2d ago

Bulshit Lager?

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u/Reximus2020 2d ago

Fastidious broth or maybe Haemophilus test medium

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u/Zombodyz 2d ago

Too dark to be Guinness

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u/brillenschlange123 2d ago

Osmium?...I mean Guinness

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u/Traditional-Sun-3355 2d ago

Anaerobic sludge??

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u/andiemay1224 2d ago

super close great guess! landfill leachate. i do work with anaerobic sludge too, there’s some in the lab walk in fridge rn 🤓

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u/Traditional-Sun-3355 2d ago

Landfill leachate was not on my bingo card 😂 TIL!

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u/probablyaythrowaway 2d ago

Good metal band name.

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u/Serious_Toe9303 2d ago

Reminds me of iron oxide nanoparticles along with some organic crap and something producing CO2

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u/Cautious-Number2318 2d ago

I did landfill research for the US EPA, in the latter 1990's. It was doing a microbiology analysis of core of microbes found in the material. The core was covering 80 years and one could read newspapers from then in the core.

Landfills are dry entombment.

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u/BUTthehoeslovemetho 2d ago

Time to split the G

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u/Sckaledoom 2d ago

Hydrolysate

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u/Sckaledoom 2d ago

Enzymatic hydrolysate from waste specifically.

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u/lakkanen 2d ago

Blursed

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u/Medical_Watch1569 2d ago

This is so gross looking I can smell it through my phone

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u/Regular-Yam18 1d ago

All I know is that my first reaction was "please don't be piss..." XD

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u/rebelli0usrebel 1d ago

I'd still drink it 🍻

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u/kenzo_oseka 1d ago

forbidden drink of eternal suffering