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Okay, understood now- thank you for the clarification!

Thank you for the response. What do you mean by "tolerate?" - I used Safale-US-05 in both the bucket and the carboy, so I know its the same strand.

Last week I tried my first venture with a 10-gallon batch (grain+extract boil). The original recipe ~4.9% ABV (5 gallon batch) called for a carboy pre-filled with 2 gallons water, 2 gallons water to begin with in the brewpot, and once the brew was complete - to transfer the wort to the carboy...

Sorry for the late reply, but the 2 packets gave the brew a swift kick, activity for over a week. Final product came out great (in my opinion) - thank you for all the help!

How many would you suggest? As to not overpitch (with the single vial of WLP001 already in the beer) - thanks for the info regarding the strains! Assuming nothing has changed come tomorrow morning, I will go grab some from the shop.

Go with one vial of the identical stuff? Or would you go with more than that?

If the gravity was lower than the reading gave; would it be wise to first follow "flars" suggestion (2nd post) and give it ? I do not have any yeast on hand but could certainly get to the store and buy some more. When I think about it, I don't believe I "topped off" the carboy, but that I had...

Gavin, I would characterize it as an Imperial (not because I know, but I was using parts of a Papazian recipe - "Armenian Imperial Stout" - pg. 209 in the 3rd ed.). I have attached a photo. Changes to the recipe = in addition to the extract syrups, I used 2lbs of a pure fruit syrup (canned)...

I brewed a 1 1/2 gal stock pot of wort. Transferred it into a 5 gal glass carboy with 3 1/2 gal clean water. Cooled in the snow down to 72F. OG=1.090 - I pitched the entire vial of WLP001 California Ale Yeast (liquid) - without making a starter - had not read directions prior to pitching or...