To reseed or not to reseed...

[gibbiem]

Thats the question....

My big black balls thread, not sure if I should reseed fresh yeast or not. It's in secondary now, clearing nicely and dry hopping. Gonna crash chill for a week then bottle. The beer is about 9.3% abv so wondering if the yeast will be too tired to carb. I'm thinking about crash chilling then adding a small amount of fresh yeast with sugar to the bottling bucket but never done it before so after some advice??

Cheers

[crookedeyeboy]

Go for it, your beer sounds like its been conditioning for a while and also you're going to crash cool it.

I would use about 60g of sugar in some water, bring to the boil, add to bottling bucket and add beer.
All I do is sprinkle a few grams of Nottingham Ale Yeast on the top as the bottling bucket is filling.

Its done the job so far

[gibbiem]

That's exactly what I don't mate ha ha. Just thought I would guesstimate. I added the yeast to the sugar water though and then to the bottling bucket and filled it. How long do you normal leave it? Been in the bottle since Thursday

[crookedeyeboy]

Left at an ambient temp it should be ready to drink in 1-2 weeks, I dont like priming using sugar normally as the beer becomes overly fizzy but done at this rate it seems to work well

[gibbiem]

Nice one. Opened a bottle last night and still flat so gave them all a shake and will test again next week