No carbonation after 2 months

[OlDirtyBrewer]

Made a stout (14%) about 2 months ago. I added priming sugar and bottled hoping to have this batch hit its stride in about 6 months. Today I tried a bottle to see how it's going and there is absolutely no carbonation. It's a bit sweet due to the priming sugar but it seems like the yeast up and quit.

I'm thinking about opening each bottle and adding a bit of yeast (WLP090) due to its high alcohol tolerance. I have some San Diego Super Yeast in the fridge I can make a starter with then use a pipette to squirt some in each bottle. What do you think?

 

[bigplunkett]

Id try that to save it. Idk if you would need to pasteurize to keep the new yeast from making bottle bombs.

 

[divrack]

Made a stout (14%) about 2 months ago. I added priming sugar and bottled hoping to have this batch hit its stride in about 6 months. Today I tried a bottle to see how it's going and there is absolutely no carbonation. It's a bit sweet due to the priming sugar but it seems like the yeast up and quit.

I'm thinking about opening each bottle and adding a bit of yeast (WLP090) due to its high alcohol tolerance. I have some San Diego Super Yeast in the fridge I can make a starter with then use a pipette to squirt some in each bottle. What do you think?

Sounds good. Might be worth going with something with similar attenuation to the original yeast but good tolerance so it doesn't try to ferment more of the sugar the other guys left.
Also test another bottle in case that one had a bad seal.
Assume they have been in a warmish environment?

 

[couchsending]

I would suggest CBC-1. What was the final gravity or your stout? I would
Worry about creating bottle bombs with WLP-090 as it could eat some additional complex sugars. The CBC-1 will eat the priming sugar but struggles with the complex sugars in beer so you shouldn’t get bottle bombs at I would imagine dry yeast would be much easier to work with if you were trying to add yeast to bottles.

 

[OlDirtyBrewer]

Thanks everyone for your feedback. I didn't even think about using CBC-1. If it can tolerate the 14% abv I think that's the way to go. Thanks!