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I have two gallons of cider fermenting right now but I'm starting to get fruit flies swarming in my closet, for now I've wrapped a cloth soaked in bleach water around the caps to keep the flies away from the lids, but I'm worried about them getting into the airlocks. Any solutions?

Thank you Hallerobin and Yooper. It's going to be a few days before I get yeast in the cider and then a couple of weeks after that before I bottle. Good to know this before I start. :)

Great responses from everyone, thank you. :) CiderRules - I haven't made hard cider yet, with my beer I had a spigot on the fermentor. Is oxygen a big deal if you're going to carbonate it? bob3000 - Yeast heavy beer doesn't have that affect on me (or maybe it does and I just don't notice :D )...

Thanks ColoHox, I thought UV killed yeast too. Live and learn. :)

What I'm concerned about is how it fermented if it was UV treated. The UV treatment should have killed all the wild yeast and stopped any fermentation until you added live yeast. Could you clear this up for us please?

Title kinda says it all. I just brewed, bottled and consumed my first batch of beer which turned out really well. From what I read, yeast can actually be kinda good for you as it's high in vitamin B, so my question is, is there anything wrong with not using a siphon when bottling hard cider...