Beer Tragedy

Last week I noticed little bugs in the cat litter. Concerned about flies I proceeded to clean out the basement, scrub, vaccum, eliminate accumulated clutter, ect.. Research lead me to believe they may be fruit flies not fleas. Last night I found the source; cans of food had spoiled and burst in my storage cabinet. Sadly the cans were directly above/next to long term beer storage. Mostly just packaging was lost although several bottles were lost as the were almost completely covered in filth. It was one of the grossiest things I've ever cleaned up. So please check your cellar and relocate your canned goods away from the beer.

 

I keep the beer in the original cardboard which was completlyinfested with bug larva. I saved most of the beer assuming that it's sealed and should be fine. Sadly, Founders is the same height as the cans and they were closest to the infestation. Nobody wants a KBS covered in ******s. Another win for the drink it now crowd I guess.

 

The rotten food didn't bother me as much as the ******s. If you didn't picture a 36'x12'x5' mass of organic matter seething with ******s and dribbling down onto the cases below you may not realize what I was sticking my hands into. Fortunately I was able to save several cases of big bottles (Rasputin XIV, Flying Mouflan, and BBA Wake Up Dead), a case of Old Stock (various vintages 09-12), with a couple of misc. 4packs and big bottles thrown in. Tragically two 4packs of Founders were engulfed mostly FBS but a couple imperials and a bottle of KBS were lost. I'd like to think some bum is discovering them in a landfill and the desire to have more of this fantastic beer is changing his life for the better. I'm still a little concerned with the integrity of the seals on several of the bottles I saved particularly the corked and caged; the larva were very small.