SC - brewing/mazing/etc

[Crystal A. Isaac]

What fluid is in the airlock makes a difrrence. If you use unclean water
in the airlock there is a (small) danger that is may be sucked down into
the fermenting mead when the temperature changes or slosh around when
the fermenter is moved. Cheap vodka is clean and sanitary and nothing
will live in it. Cheap vodka does not attract spiders like water does.
(Yes, you will occasionally find a spider in your airlock, don't panic,
just sanitize another one and replace it.)

A good question, m'dear, no need to apologise.

Crystal of the Westermark

kappler wrote:
> 
> > Even safer / better is to fill the airlock with "spiritous
> > liquor" (I use the same cheap vodka that goes into my tinctures).
> >
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> I've been brewing for quite sometime now, and this is the first time I ever
> heard of using spirits in the airlock insted of water.  As the fluid in the
> airlock simply works as a check valve (allows flow in only one direction)
> to allow the CO2 generated in fermentation out and preventing wild yeasts
> and stuff in the atmosphere from getting in, how does it make a difference
> what the fluid is?  I am not discounting your suggestion, I just don't
> understand how its "safer/better."  If you could please elaborate, I am
> always looking for "safer/better" ways to brew, but I just don't
> unnerstand.
> 
> as ever,
> curiouser and curiouser was Puck
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