Will this beer bottle carbonate?

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HopOnHops

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So I brewed massive Barleywine. OG 1.127. It got down to 1.034, so about 12%abv. I used some WLP001, 3-4 generations old.

This was brewed the first week of January. Mid February I racked it into a carboy with some bourbon soaked oak.

It has been about 2 months in there, if I ry to bottle condition this beer by adding priming sugar does it stand a chance? Do I need to add more yeast for bottling?
 
It may carb up just fine, but adding some fresh yeast is cheap insurance. Since you used WLP001, you can try some US-05 dried yeast, which is pretty close to the same strain. You don't need to use the whole pack. US-05 is a fairly slow flocculator, but it should settle out very nicely after a month or two in the bottle.
 
Since it looks like you are a yeast harvester, why not just add a bit of fresh slurry when you bottle? Free and easy... That's my plan for the BW I brewed in Jan that is in oak now.
 
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