Will it prime?

Easy question as a first post:

Will the beer in the fermenter, if you lager for too long, be unable to prime with sugar when bottling? Or said otherwise, will there always be a minimum amount of yeast in the beer to be able to prime itself with sugar? Does at some point, you require to put CO2 pills into your beer?

 

I have never had to add yeast to any beer to prime properly. I would say that the longer you lager, the longer it may take for the little bit of yeast to properly carbonate the beer but it will carbonate with the proper amount of priming sugar added. If you are concerned there is no harm adding some additional yeast to the bottling bucket on bottling day and it may speed things up a bit.

 

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Ive frozen a couple of buckets trying to lager outside, I always add yeast after that happens. If you're worried about it at all, brew a similar beer and pour like a cup in the batch you are bottling. As long as they are similar temperatures the yeast from the new batch should start eating pretty much immediately.

 

Thank you for your answers. I read a lot about homebrewing, but never saw anything on that subject.