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Should i pitch more yeast? Its been about 16 hours. Im getting a bubble every 5 seconds through the airlock. I would hate for this beer to sit 9 months and not be drinkable

I aerated really well ( i think ) Aggressively stirring with a wisk for several minutes.

The recipe has me repitch another batch of yeast before bottling? Will this help?

Yesterday i made my first high gravity beer, a russian imperial stout with an og of 1.103. I used a liquid irish ale yeast white labs 004. I dont have a stir plate so i did not make a starter. I just let it get to room temp, shook it up and pitched it. Is there anything i need to do ( its been...

Do they require any kind of special software?

I am a mechanic at a nuclear power plant.

Northernbrewer.com has a great video called lager workarounds or something like that

So glad this thread is up. Wanted to hear some creative ways to distinguish beers apart. Online labels are too expensive for me. I actually used wine shrinks for a couple of brews to identify them.

Ok so the purpose of this thread was to not to get everyones opinion. It was more to see if anyone has ever had problems with using plastic. Doesn't seem to be the case so i think i will stick to my food grade plastic primary and glass secondary. Seems to me to be more a matter of preference...

You want to cool the wort as fast as possible and pitch yeast to limit the possibility of contaminants or wild yeast getting to your wort and causing off flavors.

Yea i have seen a lot of the arguments about it but what i have not heard are people saying, i have stopped using plastic because it ruined my beer or made me sick or anything like that. I was more interested in hearing if anyone has had these type of issues and thus stopped using plastic?

I started with a Mr. Beer kit and the first one i made was very cidery and didn't have much flavor (west coast pale ale), nothing pale ale about it. The second one i did was the blonde ale and it wasn't nearly as bad. So i have a red ale from mr beer carbonating now. Through all of this i got a...

Is there a reason why? Have you had problems?

Cool! Very curious to see results.

Had anyone had issues with food grade plastic? Some of the old schoolers really advise against it. I use a plastic food grade for primary and glass carboy for secondary.

Waiting for my first batch to carbonate so im drinking sam adams winter lager

Im just a newbie but talking with the man at the home-brew store told me that u don't want to boil the bottles because the ash used to make the bottles would break down from the heat and get into the beer. I havent researched this but it may be worth looking in to