Have a Mirror Pond-inspired pale ale and an Irish Red Ale bubbling away furiously in the beer room - one in a Yooper's ghetto fermentation cooler and one with British II which can handle the high teens-low twenties Celsius temps right now.
Late summer fruit fly infestation is in full swing and they were all over (though not in) the airlocks this morning. Dozens of the little b@$tards. A few drops of dish soap and an oz. of red wine vinegar in a shot glass seems to be doing the trick. It's like buying a cat a scratching post so they won't scratch the sofa. They needed something funkier than fermenting wort to fall to their deaths in.
The joys of summer brewing.
Late summer fruit fly infestation is in full swing and they were all over (though not in) the airlocks this morning. Dozens of the little b@$tards. A few drops of dish soap and an oz. of red wine vinegar in a shot glass seems to be doing the trick. It's like buying a cat a scratching post so they won't scratch the sofa. They needed something funkier than fermenting wort to fall to their deaths in.
The joys of summer brewing.