storing ale?

[beer gut]

Hi everyone i have quite a basic question i have 5 gallons of high gravitey christmas ale in one of those large glass carboyd. I was wondering how long will it keep in the glass carboyd before it will go off, caus iam waiting for some smaller bottles caus this ale gravitey is 11.5% abv and i don't want put that ale in pint bottles.

[leigh1919]

not quite sure how long ill last but I do know one thing - keep it out of the light. wrap it in a bin bag or something. It'll get lightstruck otherwise.

[Cheshire-cheese]

I'd say that, as long as it's in the dark, it'll keep for months, esp if the glass carboy is your secondary vessel.

[flything]

Light is definately the thing to protect against. Leaving it on the yeast cake, according to a recent BYO article I read, has no negative impact on the beer flavour, even over quite long periods of time, if you've already racked it to a secondary then you could leave it there for months, you're probably going to need to add some yeast along with the priming sugars anway given the strength of the beer.

[beer gut]

hi everyone thank's for the reply and yes the carboyd is the secconed vessel. When i put the ale in the glass carboyd i wrapped the carboyd in a heavy towl i was not sure how long it would last in the carboyd.