They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle faster?

[BigPapaG]

Me? Or the Dreaded Drosophila!

The race is on... So far, I'm winning...

That is, I'm getting beer in the bottles (and remainder in the keg) before they get in!

Yeah!

[John Sand]

Next time use less fruit!

[BigPapaG]

Next time use less fruit!

Kinda tough... No fruit but enough ethanol and isoamyl acetate to attract them... I guess

It was a Hefeweizen... Smelled enough like bananas to attract them...

Or maybe it was because I also left the blowoff on for the whole fermentation (yeah, I forgot to change it to a real airlock) so the blowoff liquid became an acetobacter factory... They apparently like that as well.

[mashani]

You can keep those little bastards! I was at war with them last year. This year so far I've only seen random ones, vs. having them breeding in my house.

[John Sand]

I had a batch that got fruit flies, ruined it. And my first outdoor batch was swarmed at sunset by mosquitoes. In the service we called powdered mix drinks "bug juice". Maybe there's a batch someday with that title.