Went to dry hop my beer the other night and noticed there were all these little white grains of something on the carboy. Looking closer I see they were moving.
maggots…
They were covering the carboy and had gotten up under the cap.
I think flies must have gotten into the freezer through the drain plug that I’d accidentally left out. It was a messy ferment that had spewed wort all over and I hadn’t cleaned it up very well.
sigh
Just pisses me off. This was an IPA made with my home grown hops. grr
So now I have lots of cleaning and sanitizing to do…
I think you could have drawn out the beer from underneath. But I understand the disgust factor.
One time a tiny fly got under the lid of a fermenter as I was setting it aside after racking to a keg. I had seen it flying around. Life got in the way and a week later I lifted the lid away and there was this fat bloated redly iridescent fly sitting there in the krausen ring. So fat it couldn’t even fly away. ;D It was so swollen one could see the gaps in it’s carapace and the skin in between.
No maggots thankfully.
I washed it down the drain with the rest of the gunk!
