MarkBastard
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Just went to check my two fermenters in my chest freezers as both batches have been fermenting for two weeks.
To my utter disappointment there were bloody ants in the chesty. Oh well I figure as long as they didn't get in the fermenter, and they didn't, so all is good.
Pulled one out and noticed there was about 3 very small maggots (probably fruit fly maggots?) in between the two layers of glad wrap, like floating over the opening of the fermenter. So I very carefully pull the glad wrap off but as I'm half way they bloody fall in! ARGH!!!
I put glad wrap back on and put the temp down to 1 degrees for the crash chill. Just at least as an experiment. Dare me to drink this crap? It was a fresh wort kit blonde ale I'd been hanging for. Maybe they will drown and not infect the brew somehow and become part of the yeast cake and the rest will be okay? I know it's dodgy but 20L of beer over a couple of pin heads of insect babies?
What would you do?
BTW this was deleted due to bad language. Sorry about that kiddies
To my utter disappointment there were bloody ants in the chesty. Oh well I figure as long as they didn't get in the fermenter, and they didn't, so all is good.
Pulled one out and noticed there was about 3 very small maggots (probably fruit fly maggots?) in between the two layers of glad wrap, like floating over the opening of the fermenter. So I very carefully pull the glad wrap off but as I'm half way they bloody fall in! ARGH!!!
I put glad wrap back on and put the temp down to 1 degrees for the crash chill. Just at least as an experiment. Dare me to drink this crap? It was a fresh wort kit blonde ale I'd been hanging for. Maybe they will drown and not infect the brew somehow and become part of the yeast cake and the rest will be okay? I know it's dodgy but 20L of beer over a couple of pin heads of insect babies?
What would you do?
BTW this was deleted due to bad language. Sorry about that kiddies