Wed Oct 13, 2010 12:08 pm
I just brewed a Scottish Wee Heavy using a Northern Brewer kit (extract w/ specialty grains). The included directions call for conditioning the beer for 2 months in a secondary fermenter. I haven't used a secondary for quite a while and never used one for that long. But this is the biggest beer I've ever brewed. My question is, will there be enough yeast left in the brew after 2 months to carbonate the beer when I bottle it in a few months? Should I age in the bottle? Or pitch some dried yeast into the bottling bucket after it all sits in a carboy for 2 months? I don't want to end up with flat beer after waiting all that time...
Private First Class, Northeast Division