BlueSunshine
Well-Known Member
So this is the first summer I've brewed beer and yesterday I noticed 3 dead fruit flies in the neck of my airlock. After doing so research on some old threads it looks like people are divided as to how to proceed with a situation like this. So I have some questions:
1. Is there anyway my batch could be contaminated by this? There's no signs of anything funky going on in my carboy at the moment.
2. Will using a blow off tube instead of an s-shaped airlock help me out with this issue? How about putting a loosely fitting ziplock bag over the airlock?
3. Should I take off the airlock and re sanitize everything in there before I bottle? At the moment I have a really bad flu and don't want to go near the fermenter, should I just leave it go and let the vodka do its job?
Those little bastards, next time I start a batch I'm creating all kinds of traps and I'm going to nuke all my drains with bleach.
1. Is there anyway my batch could be contaminated by this? There's no signs of anything funky going on in my carboy at the moment.
2. Will using a blow off tube instead of an s-shaped airlock help me out with this issue? How about putting a loosely fitting ziplock bag over the airlock?
3. Should I take off the airlock and re sanitize everything in there before I bottle? At the moment I have a really bad flu and don't want to go near the fermenter, should I just leave it go and let the vodka do its job?
Those little bastards, next time I start a batch I'm creating all kinds of traps and I'm going to nuke all my drains with bleach.