First lager..ish beer. Will it carbonate!?

Today I have just bottled my first all grain beer.

I got the recipe from here

Its basically lager ingredients plus a few extra bits but fermented to normal ale conditions and with ale yeast. I started with this because I was kind of interested to see if it would be any good and liked the idea of a very light refreshing ale.

The beer is ultra clear! As clear as you would wish after a few week conditioning. My question is (and this could be a very stupid noob question!!) ....will it still carbonate or has all the yeast died off?



Ive done kits before and 1 recipe from liquid / dry extracts and i've never seen a beer so clear when bottled.

I'm well prepared to be called stupid on this one! :cross:

 

That looks great! There will be no problem with carbonation. Plenty of yeast hanging out in there. Congrats on your first AG batch.

 

They don't die off right after feremntation in unless you do something extraordinary to kill them (like pasteurizing). They just go dormant and very slowly over time (months) lose their viability.