First lager..ish beer. Will it carbonate!?

[waltonburger]

Today I have just bottled my first all grain beer.

I got the recipe from here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Booze-River-Cot ... 1408817934

Its basically lager ingredients plus a few extra bits but fermented to normal ale conditions and with ale yeast. I started with this because I was kind of interested to see if it would be any good and liked the idea of a very light refreshing ale.

The beer is ultra clear! As clear as you would wish after a few week conditioning. My question is (and this could be a very stupid noob question!!) ....will it still carbonate or has all the yeast died off?

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Ive done kits before and 1 recipe from liquid / dry extracts and i've never seen a beer so clear when bottled.

I'm well prepared to be called stupid on this one!

[waltonburger]

Hmm.... the picture didnt work. How do we post pics to the forum?

[mozza]

It will carbonate there will be loads of yeast still in suspension

[GrowlingDogBeer]

Did you put any priming sugars in the bottles?

[waltonburger]

Yep, they are 500ml bottles and I used 1/2 tsp caster sugar per bottle as I normally do. I suppose my main concern was if there were any live yeast left considering it was so clear.

My extremely limited understanding was that once the yeast fermented, then cleaned the beer, it died off.

[jimp2003]

Today I have just bottled my first all grain beer.

I got the recipe from here http://www.amazon.co.uk/Booze-River-Cot ... 1408817934

Its basically lager ingredients plus a few extra bits but fermented to normal ale conditions and with ale yeast. I started with this because I was kind of interested to see if it would be any good and liked the idea of a very light refreshing ale.

The beer is ultra clear! As clear as you would wish after a few week conditioning. My question is (and this could be a very stupid noob question!!) ....will it still carbonate or has all the yeast died off?



Ive done kits before and 1 recipe from liquid / dry extracts and i've never seen a beer so clear when bottled.

I'm well prepared to be called stupid on this one!

Just showing the pic...

[Horatio]

Looks great! Unless it's been filtered or pasteurised even the clearest beer will still have loads of yeast in it. Certainly enough to carbonate. I leave my lagers conditioning at zero degrees for upto three months and they always carbonate. Should be a cracker. Good luck with it.

[Rick_UK]

Should carb up fine if you keep it at room temp for 2 weeks. You are right to ask though as clearer beer will have less yeast and take longer to carbonate than cloudy beer.

[waltonburger]

Cheers guys, ive wrapped it up snug and conditioning it in the living room (which holds the steadiest temperature) .....the wife is not happy!!