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Subject: Cider Digest #343 Wed Sep 29 18:00:05 EDT 1993
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 18:00:06 -0400
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Cider Digest #343 Wed Sep 29 18:00:05 EDT 1993
Forum for Discussion of Cider Issues
Jay Hersh, Digest Coordinator
Contents:
Fruit flies (Darren Evans-Young)
Re: Fruit Flies (michael.niemann)
Annual Ciderfest picnic (troy)
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Date: Tue, 28 Sep 93 19:16:44 CDT
From: Darren Evans-Young <DARREN@UA1VM.UA.EDU>
Subject: Fruit flies
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:40:38 -0400 (EDT)
>From: bogorman@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu (Brian O'Gorman)
>Subject: Help - fruit/vinegar flies!
>
>I've noticed some small flies (vinegar/white/fruit?) around my
>glass carboy (a NE cider recipe from the Cat's Meow).
>I have a three piece air lock on and it's
>tightly sealed. Some of the flies got inside of the airlock
>but none appeared have made it inside the cider. Have they layed eggs
>or somehow infected the whole batch with germs resident
>on there body? I don't want to open the batch for racking or bottling
>without risking contamination. Any hints (like useful insecticides)
>I should be thinking about before I open the carboy? I tried adding
>just a little bit of bleach to the airlock as some sort of stopgap
>measure. Should I toss the batch and write it off? It's been in the
>carboy for quite some time now and I'd hate to loose it (or have
>5 gal of not too good vinegar).
I had about 30 of those go after my mead. They either drowned or
were overcome by the CO2. I just sanitized another airlock and
replaced the old one. Dont toss your batch! You should be ok
as long as none get to the cider.
Darren
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 08:59:13 EDT
From: michael.niemann@mail.trincoll.edu
Subject: Re: Fruit Flies
>Date: Tue, 28 Sep 1993 13:40:38 -0400 (EDT)
>From: bogorman@whsun1.wh.whoi.edu (Brian O'Gorman)
>Subject: Help - fruit/vinegar flies!
>
>I've noticed some small flies (vinegar/white/fruit?) around my
>glass carboy (a NE cider recipe from the Cat's Meow).
>I have a three piece air lock on and it's
>tightly sealed. Some of the flies got inside of the airlock
>but none appeared have made it inside the cider. Have they layed eggs
>or somehow infected the whole batch with germs resident
>on there body? I don't want to open the batch for racking or bottling
>without risking contamination. Any hints (like useful insecticides)
>I should be thinking about before I open the carboy? I tried adding
>just a little bit of bleach to the airlock as some sort of stopgap
>measure. Should I toss the batch and write it off? It's been in the
>carboy for quite some time now and I'd hate to loose it (or have
>5 gal of not too good vinegar).
Don't worry. I've had fruit flies in my airlock at various times. They
never make it past the water barrier because they drown. This has happened
to my wheat beers and my alt beers. As a matter of fact, I currently have
a batch of wheat beer and a batch of cider in my basement and the fruit
flies are in the beer airlock, not in the cider airlock. When you remove
the airlock, make sure that you don't spill the water into your cider. But
that should be the only issue.
Good luck
Michael
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Date: Wed, 29 Sep 93 09:55:35
From: troy@centerline.com
Subject: Annual Ciderfest picnic
Greetings,
I was just added to the Cider mailing list (hi everybody) and have
been reading over some of the past digests. In digest 267 Paul
Correnty talks about an annual Ciderfest picnic at Anderson apple
orchards in Westford, MA. Is there a Ciderfest picnic planned for
this year? Has it already happened? Thanks in advance.
- --Troy Runkel troy@centerline.com
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