What I did looking for some opinions.

[fastsrt]

6.6lb dark lme
2lb dark dme
4 oz chocolate malt briesse 6 row
8 oz maltodextrin
8 oz crystal 60 l
8 oz roasted barley
8 oz black patent
1 oz columbus bittering
1/2 oz palisades aroma
yeast safale s-04 pitched dry
I let ferment 68 degrees for 7 days then I took 4 ounces of hershey chocolate syrup, 4 ounces of water and 2 vanilla beans, boiled this concoction back down to a syrup cooled and add it to my primary. Fermentation started back up for a few days. my gravity is 1.020 (sg 1.077). I brewed feb 16th I need to do something with my beer by march 21st.; I am leaving for 7 months should I bottle or secondary.

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

Leaving for 7 months? Which means you won't be drinking for at least 7 months? I'd vote secondary. I'm of the opinion that beer ages better batched together. Of course you would then be faced with several weeks of bottle conditioning upon return...

 

[fastsrt]

After march 21st, I will not be able to do anything with it till october. So bottle condition or bulk age for 7 months?