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What is your gravity? My opinion would be to rack it to secondary, rack a fresh wort onto the cake and pitch a fresh pack of roselare. Blend and bottle in a year, but that is just me.

That would make a freaking AWESOME coolship! What's the holdup?

Sorry about that: Airlock.

When I first transfered it into the growler I shook it heavily for a good 2 minutes to aerate. I also swirled it heavily this morning to aerate. No stepping up yet.

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Okay. For some reason my picture is not posting. Suffice to say that I have more or less full Krausen.

This appears to be Krausen to me... :ban:

Yeah, I have seen the article. His site is pretty damn great, and one of the first (Good) online resources I found for sour beers, besides here of course. More than anything I was surprised at how fast mine seemed to grow something, yet how unlike any of my other yeasts it has looked (so far...

This is funny. I made some 1.040 wort that I lightly hopped with a handful of aged hops on the evening of the 15th. I felt it on my front porch (covered with a wire strainer) from about 8 pm until 8 am; it got down to about 40 degrees that night. I transfered to a sanitized growler and shook...

I also have a 9 month old Lambic in primary. It is currently rocking a nice white pellicle and its gravity is at 1.002 or so. I personnally plan on racking it over blueberries at the beginning of february.

I couldn't agree more. The whole "plambic" thing is just silly.

No dude, he meant the lided Mason Jar next to your carboys.

For what it's worth I have found that the "s" airlocks (high gravity calls them "Triple Ripple") take MUCH longer to dry out than the 3 piece ones. Depending on the relative humidity I have had to top up 3 piece airlocks as often as once every week or 2, while I seldom have to top the "s"...

I have some Trois that I was getting ready to grow up into starter. I could easily harvest some out of that. I will confess to never having shipped yeast before, but I would kill someone to get my hands on some bugfarm...

Yeah If we could get a grain and hop bill on this I would love to give it a try. Perhaps if they have kits in in January I will give it a whirl.

On the plus side mine tastes great. Not very complex but it is only 4-ish months old.

Yeah all my Dried Zante Currants floated for about a month and then they began to slowly start sinking. I no longer have any floaters (I added the currants around July 15th or so) and haven't for most of this month. I also have not even the remotest sign of a pellicle and I am just over 5.5...

incidentally, a White powdery pellicle generally sounds like Brett to me.

I am assuming this was raw unpasteurized honey? Honey can very often have wild yeast spores trapped in it. This is the same reason, incidentally, that you shouldn't feed honey to children under 1 year or so: most honey also has small amounts of botulism spores in it (Pasteurization won't...

Okay first things first: Most fruit lambics use somewhere on the order of 1-2+ pounds of fruit per gallon to get their fruit character. with 2 pounds in a 5 gallon batch it will be vaguelly pinkish lambic with little to no fruit character (Blueberries, contrary to what one might think are...