lockmanslammin
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Hello everyone, this is my first post here. I have brewed probably 6 batches of beer, but it has been a while. My last batch was imperial stout, which has been in a 5 gallon glass carboy in secondary for about two years with a towel wrapped around it to keep light out. First year in a closet, then I bought a house and it got moved to a basement for it's second year.
Two questions,
1: I have not kept up with the airlock, and it has dried out. If when I do a gravity reading and taste it, it tastes fine, I'm good to go right?
2: Should I pitch some ale yeast into the bottling bucket with the sugar water mix before I siphon into the bottling bucket? Could it still have enough of the original yeast left after two years?
Thanks for any help you guys/gals could offer. I would like to start back into homebrewing, but I don't want to abandon this batch if it could be saved. I figure it will either be nasty and infected, or really good after such a long bulk aging process.
I would like to get a couple batches going to take to a family vaca up in Minn. this summer. My younger bro, has started brewing and is going to be bringing some up there, and I really should be matching him..lol.
Two questions,
1: I have not kept up with the airlock, and it has dried out. If when I do a gravity reading and taste it, it tastes fine, I'm good to go right?
2: Should I pitch some ale yeast into the bottling bucket with the sugar water mix before I siphon into the bottling bucket? Could it still have enough of the original yeast left after two years?
Thanks for any help you guys/gals could offer. I would like to start back into homebrewing, but I don't want to abandon this batch if it could be saved. I figure it will either be nasty and infected, or really good after such a long bulk aging process.
I would like to get a couple batches going to take to a family vaca up in Minn. this summer. My younger bro, has started brewing and is going to be bringing some up there, and I really should be matching him..lol.