found bug in fermenter

so i opened up a plastic fermenter tonight to rack a blonde ale onto some blue/black/raspberries in a secondary and floating right on the top of the beer is a dead june bug. I brewed the beer outside at night, out away from the house, but the flood light was on and there were lots of bugs around it. Guess one found its way into the beer and that was it. Pulled a taste off, tasted like good warm flat beer, so went ahead and moved it into the secondary and back into the cellar.

it's true, RDWHAHB (in this case it was actually a margarita not a home brew, but the principle still applies i guess.)

we'll see how it tastes after bottling, and sitting for a month or 2.

I agree, Don't worry, the June Bug couldn't have drank too much of it anyway.

Make sure you get the June bug into one of the bottles and after you down a few, well, you know the rest. Just pretend like its a caterpillar in Tequilla.

You've got a lot of cool options for naming your beer now.

and you know that bug died happy!!

Domminigan said:

I agree, Don't worry, the June Bug couldn't have drank too much of it anyway.

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I lol'd when I read that.

chefmike said:

and you know that bug died happy!!

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haha, yep my first thought was "well, if i had to choose a way to go..."

So you have a Raspberry blonde bug to share with us

Hope that Junebug spat out your beer before it croaked. Hate to waste that good stuff.