Fermenting in the dark?

[rubybrew]

Newbie question here. I cooked up a 1 gallon batch of Caribou Slobber from Northern Brewer yesterday evening.

I placed the fermenter in our coat closet because the instructions said to place it in a 'quiet, dark place'.

After discovering some serious blowoff later in the evening I had to remove it from the closet to rig up a blowoff tube, etc. The set up is now too big to put back into that shelf in the closet.

My question is, do I have to have the fermenter in the dark? It's now on a small table in the kitchen and is still bubbling away although the foam has stopped blasting through the blowoff tube.

 

[OHIOSTEVE]

cover it woth a t shirt or something.. it needs to be kept out of direct light.

 

[Giggliato]

Most will tell you to keep it out of the sun, If you have a large cardboard box that works good as a cover.

 

[beerman0001]

Yes you do not want light getting into it. Just wrap a towel around it.

 

[passedpawn]

drop a tshirt over it

 

[rubybrew]

Thanks for the advice guys. It's now happily bubbling away under a towel.