Making Contaminated Beer

[Tom Summers]

I was impressed by the replies to my first post on the making of beer with rainwater and the different opinions. On the subject of contamination, when I first started making beer when I lived in Singapore I would use a dustbin and a dustbin liner and tie the top off around the bubbler hose. On one brew as I was about to seal it up I discovered a huge fly or bug swimming around on the surface of the beer. When I attempted to get the fly out it sank from view to the bottom of the brew!!. As I had to rely on a mate bringing the kits through from Australia I could not afford to waste the brew so sealed it anyway. When drinking time came I tried it out on my next door nieghbour and he reckoned it tasted really good so we had a few bottles each with no harmful side effects. Fermentation kills flies and germs( or some of them)! Thanks Guys
Regards
Tom Summers

[gregb]

The baron had a fruit fly go into his beer a while ago. See here. Never did get back to us to advise ok or not.

Cheers,
Greg

[ryan]

On one brew as I was about to seal it up I discovered a huge fly or bug swimming around on the surface of the beer. When drinking time came I tried it out on my next door nieghbour
Regards
Tom Summers

LOL......You can`t be too careful, all right.