After 6 months of waiting to bottle my yearly cider making I was bummed out to find a few ants had somehow found their way into the 3 piece airlock and drowned. Along with their floating carcasses was a thin white growth inside the airlock (which must be alcohol tolerant since I use vodka in...
I'm ashamed to admit but I forgot to flame the lip of my yeast starter when pitching- gah! It was covered in foil, but I used a stir plate which I imagine drew in air across the lip and deposited who knows what there.
My thinking is that there will be enough yeast from the starter to have a...
