Hi,
I'm a newbie so the answer to my question may be obvious but for the sake of conscience I'll leave the question here anyway...
I have some bottles finishing their second fermentation (priming) and today I remembered to take a look at them and noticed that I had some friends there (drosophilas, better known as fruit flies and largely responsible for vinegar...). There weren't many, maybe 5 or 6 (about 4 of them resting on top of 3 of the bottles), when I saw them there around the bottles I got a little worried and decided to see if anyone could clarify if there was a risk of them contaminating the my beer (although it is already bottled) and/or they lay eggs
or if they are there just because they were attracted by some compound that came out of the bottle (I don't know if this is possible but I would like to know) (and, of course, I hope that's what happened)
(I read somewhere that drosophilas are attracted to alcohol and so I think it's worth mentioning that the beer in question is a Belgium Tripel beer)
I would appreciate any kind of help/clarification on this issue (and I apologize for any errors in writing English)
Thanks
I'm a newbie so the answer to my question may be obvious but for the sake of conscience I'll leave the question here anyway...
I have some bottles finishing their second fermentation (priming) and today I remembered to take a look at them and noticed that I had some friends there (drosophilas, better known as fruit flies and largely responsible for vinegar...). There weren't many, maybe 5 or 6 (about 4 of them resting on top of 3 of the bottles), when I saw them there around the bottles I got a little worried and decided to see if anyone could clarify if there was a risk of them contaminating the my beer (although it is already bottled) and/or they lay eggs
or if they are there just because they were attracted by some compound that came out of the bottle (I don't know if this is possible but I would like to know) (and, of course, I hope that's what happened)
(I read somewhere that drosophilas are attracted to alcohol and so I think it's worth mentioning that the beer in question is a Belgium Tripel beer)
I would appreciate any kind of help/clarification on this issue (and I apologize for any errors in writing English)
Thanks