Catching fruit flies with booze
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We don’t need to go into too many details about it here (RCR prep is non-trivially to blame), but I have something of a fruit fly colony in my house right now. I’m opposed, on various grounds, to anything that ends with -icide, and fruit flies are especially easy pickin’s, but I have enough of them to conduct something of a scientific test.
In round one: Domaine de Canton is 10 times better than crappy brandy, 20 times better than decent Armagnac.
Round two is a Cooper family shoot-out: St. Germain, Domaine de Canton, and Chambord. Winner is the one with a statistically relevantly larger number of fruit flies in the respective wine goblet before I leave for the wilds of Alberta Tuesday afternoon.
11:52 am on October 22nd, 2010
Ok so it seems that liqueurs are the way to go. That makes sense because of their elevated sweetness levels.
For further contenders, I would suggest a creme de menthes (both types to test if there’s a photo effect on flies predilections for their deathtraps), a cream (Bailey’s), and maybe a darkhorse like Grenadine cut with some neutral spirit to give it some volatile aromas.