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They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle faster?
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 12:05 pm
by 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!
Re: They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle fast
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:49 pm
by John Sand
Next time use less fruit!
Re: They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle fast
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 8:57 pm
by BigPapaG
John Sand wrote: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.
Re: They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle fast
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 1:08 am
by 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.
Re: They're Back... Who can get something in the bottle fast
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 9:04 am
by 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.