Thu Jan 19, 2012 9:55 am
NEVER open ferment~!!!
You have to protect the beer from contamination. That's why I always take the canvass blanket off my mule and toss it over the fermenter because otherwise birds and bats will fall in while trying to catch the flies swarming the beer and there's nothing like finding dead bats in your beer in the morning along with a half inch thick scummy layer of dead flies, so always cover the brew.
The Ancients fermented with nothing but maybe that same canvas cover (to keep the flies out) and probably borrowed it from their mules too, or just "borrowed" some poor monk's filthy cassock.
HEY~!! It's a hobby~!! It's NOT supposed to make sense~!!
