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And no, this isn't about Extenze Male Enhancement.. :D Made ya look though.. ;D

Anyway...here's the deal... I was going to try iloverose's Belgian Ale yeast experiment and the heat in Miami had its way with the smack pack resulting in what I thought was a dead pack.. so I went with a White Labs Trappist I was able to get locally...

Lo and behold about two or three days later the smack pack woke up! Not wanting to waste a what seems to be a good pack of yeast, I scrambled and threw it in an Erlenmeyer flask with one pound of honey and about 2000cc of water plus DAP and lo and behold I have a very vigorous ferment going on.

Today I went to get two more pounds of orange blossom honey in order to complete the original recipe... and here, finally, is my question.

Should I just put the honey in a one gallon carboy and consider the stuff in the flask a "super starter" and just pitch it in and go? Or should I do something to make sure I don't oxidize the whole thing, etc... I degassed the flask this morning and it blew everything out of the airlock! Now it's bubbling away furiously once more...
 
That's what 'm going to find out! Seems I'm short a third one gallon carboy... time to get some apple juice...now what to do with one gallon of apple juice???
 
Oh that won't be an issue once I zero in on a recipe I like. I have three 5 gal bucket fermenters and at least one glass 5 gal carboy waiting to go into action.
 
No reason you can't ferment in the 5 gal bucket while you wait for a carboy to free up... if it's releasing CO2 you don't really have to worry about oxidation...
 
Chevette Girl said:
No reason you can't ferment in the 5 gal bucket while you wait for a carboy to free up... if it's releasing CO2 you don't really have to worry about oxidation...
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True enough, but the end is only going to be one gallon, and I'm due to go get a gallon of apple juice (for the bottle) which I will store in a plastic jug until the 4th! carboy arrives in the mail... sigh.. I'll be one happy boy in about a week! I'm using an old old recipe I have for quick hard cider (just plain cider to you UK folk) that will have me drinking bubbly in about a week. Perfect for the summer!
 
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