Fruit flies

I kegged a couple fresh hop batches and look what I found in my airlocks.



I'm just glad that there was liquid in the airlocks the whole time so they couldn't get in the actual carboy. Funny thing is they loved the SD super yeast but there were only two in the US 05 behind.

For some reason I've found they seem to be attracted to rye beers. I've had two rye pale ales that (back when I fermented in a large bucket) attracted them, one of them lost to infection. More recently (and brewing/fermenting in a different town entirely) I've had them show up in my fermentation fridge while fermenting a rye saison. I now have a fermenter that is sealed except for the blowoff tube, so they had no way of getting to the beer...

I just swatted one as I was reading this post. Pain in the arse.

neko said:

I kegged a couple fresh hop batches and look what I found in my airlocks.

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Looks like we aren't the only ones that are willing to give our lives for the sake of beer