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If you want more yeasties...they want oxygen to make babies so give them oxygen. If you want to make beer...put a plug on it. The reason for a starter is to make more babies. That's all yeast really want to do...we want to make beer. Use the foil, loose. Stir plate or intermittent stirring...

cfonnes, thanks also. I expected it to go for a year, just didn't expect to not have the barrel. Going stainless now.

ryane, That is what I was thinking for the yeast. Thanks for the additional. I need to make something of this beer.

IBU: 20 FG: 1.012 Yeast: Wyeast 1056 Should have posted this. I expect I can add another yeast like a 3767 at room temp?

I have a brown ale that was going to be part of a communal project into a barrel. This may no longer happen, however. The beer has been sitting in a secondary corny keg for two weeks. Is there anything I can do to produce the sour?

Drink it FRESH! However, I do believe your IBU's are too high and your abv a little low for a Pliny. Pliny runs @ 92 IBU and the abv is 8%.

Also, if you have the time you can do a '2-step' starter for that big beer. You can find out how on the Wyeast website. If you want an 8.5%+ beer, this will give you the vital amount of cells ready to eat the sugar instead of just trying to multiply. Your lag time will also be a lot quicker...

why, yes babalu87, I have tasted one...or two even. I didn't say I conquered anything. I brew my Black Moria Double Black IPA which has even been approved tasting-wise by pro brewers. Also baba, what is real? Lighten up.

History is written by the Conquerors (smile).

I have recently, for my 2IPA's, gone with the 1:1 ratio of H2O to grain. No stuck sparge either and a pretty decent efficiency with a OG: 1.088 and FG: 1.016...Now that makes a lively beer!

I posted somewhere on here already the recipe I use. However, use a current one you already have for the pale. Then change out some of you base malt for Carafa Specialty I, II, or III. My shop only had number I and I used it for a great flavor and color. For a 5 gal batch I used .75 Carafa...

SQUID INK. My LHBS now carries it! Seriously, more later...I'm busy with a client and couldn't resist.

I didn't poll as I like both sides... However, my Black Moriah IPA is just that, a black version (somewhat) of my Rumplestiltskin Double IPA. It comes in a 9%abv, very hoppy 114IBU but has a little malt flavor that I usually do not want in my 'light orange' colored beer. I am going out on a...

And then re-sanitize before kegging?

Do any of you re-use your cartridge filters after filtering your beer into a keg? I currently have not, but am exploring the possibility. I am using a 1M cartridge. I just transferred 10 gal through the filter and kegged. I then back-flushed with warm water and Star San. The filter isn't...

Great! Good Luck! My beer comes up really clean with this method. I use a Blickman Beer Gun and it really helps gets my beer bottled and carbonation dialed in easily. All of the brews I have entered in competition the comments were that they loved the clarity and carbonation...taste...

This is a Partial Mash: Black Moriah A ProMash Recipe Report BJCP Style and Style Guidelines ------------------------------- 14-C India Pale Ale, Imperial IPA Min OG: 1.075 Max OG: 1.108 Min IBU: 60 Max IBU: 100 Min Clr: 8 Max Clr: 15 Color in SRM, Lovibond...

I just brewed last evening something very similar to yours. I could only obtain Carafa I but the color was pretty pitch-black when finished. My hops were Chinook, Centennial, Amarillo. Used Chico Ale yeast, pitched from a starter. Started fermentation 3 hrs later! Called it Black Moriah.