After 7 (mostly) successful small to medium lagers, I decided to enter the world of big beers, a doppelbock (extract and mini-mash). I designed a recipe on Beersmith and following some good advise from Joe Sr. and DmTaylor, I pulled 2 lbs. of LME and added a pound of corn sugar to the recipe. Beersmith said: OG 1.089, est. FG 1.020 and est. ABV 9%. I hit OG on the nose. I pitched a healthy amount of WY2124 slurry from a 1.060 Marzen that I had just bottled. Fermented at 50F for 8 days and ramped up the temp. over 2-3 days.
After a looong diacetyl rest at 66-70F, the FG came out 1.010 and Beersmith calculated the ABV at 10.5%! The hydrometer sample tasted crisp and
very alcoholic. The beer is now lagering at 31-33F.
I want to bottle this batch. Considering the alcohol content, I wonder if I should try to find a bunch of 8 oz. bottles.
Question is: At that alcohol level and after lagering, will this yeast have enough umph left to carbonate this beer? It did get it to 1.010 albeit very slowly at the end.
Waddya think?