david_the_greek
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To begin with, my fermentation/kegging/soon to be bottling room is in my basement. It is a fairly decent sized room and it always smells delicious IMHO. Now one of my big concerns about brewing was the development of fruit flies. I knew I wouldn't always clean up messes and that eventually, since I use this enclosed room, I would get some fruit flies. Well it finally happened after more than few months where I will see an occasional fruit fly if I leave the garbage in the room too long with beer/wort soaked paper towels in it. I know I should have wrung them into a glass but hey stuff happens . I also have a quantifiable sh*t ton of spiders in this room. I mean EVERYWHERE!. It doesn't matter how many I get rid of, they are always there. I figure what the heck, if they eat any fruit flies that develop then they are alright by me. And as long as I keep all liquids capped then I won't have to get angry and kill them all because they infected anything. I guess it means my air quality must be good down there. Does anyone else happen to have ridiculous amounts of spiders inhabit their brew rooms, after they have been turned into brew rooms? I know some were their before but this is a ridiculous increase in population. Sorry just thought I'd inquire about this silly observation.