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Have you used a stir plate on the 1st starter? What's the temperature of the fermenting bucket/carboy?

You should be fine... the starter helps also to increase the yeast viability for repitching and saving some coins. (one wlp vial here runs at 25 maybe 30 bucks) I want to do a mad elf clone. At 11%, I need a lot of yeast, so I will do a 2l starter, brew a chimay blue and when I move that to the...

So... Have you tried it? .What the verdict?

You mentioned it's a chimay blue clone. Your OG should be pretty high, calls for more yeast. Def go with a starter, I'm planning to do one myself and I'm shooting for 2 l....(5 gal batch) Take a look here http://yeastcalc.com/ depending on batch size and OG, you will need more.

So, have you tried it? I have an "imperial chocolate oatmeal stout" batch ready to bottle, and if I used 200 ml of monin cherry sirup it would be enough to carb it. Not sure if I should do it... What's your experience?