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Date: 24 Jun 2006 03:06:01
From: Dick Adams
Subject: Almost frozen beer
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I'm going to bottle from a keg and wanted to get the temperature
below 40F. The keg spent two days in my standup freezer last
week. I didn't have to time to bottle so I just took it out and
set it on the floor. I was at 53F and the room temperature was
78F. So Thursday morning I stuck it in my empty chest freezer.
On Friday I degassed it ond opened it to check the temperature.
I could see the ice slush so closed it, refilled the CO2, and put
the keg on top of a table with a towel and plastic underneath
it. How bad is this?
Note this is a lawnmower ale for my frizzy beer friends. :)
Dick
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 05:48:37
From: John 'Shaggy' Kolesar
Subject: Re: Almost frozen beer
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On Sat, 24 Jun 2006 03:06:01 -0000, <rdadams@smart.net > wrote:
> I'm going to bottle from a keg and wanted to get the temperature
> below 40F. The keg spent two days in my standup freezer last
> week. I didn't have to time to bottle so I just took it out and
> set it on the floor. I was at 53F and the room temperature was
> 78F. So Thursday morning I stuck it in my empty chest freezer.
> On Friday I degassed it ond opened it to check the temperature.
> I could see the ice slush so closed it, refilled the CO2, and put
> the keg on top of a table with a towel and plastic underneath
> it. How bad is this?
If you're going to counter pressure bottle, then it shouldn't be
a big deal. If you expect the yeast to consume priming sugar in
the bottles then you may want to think about adding fresh yeast to
the keg and giving it a couple days. If the yeast were frozen, it
can potentially kill them. Even if they weren't frozen enough to
kill them off, it probably caused a lot of them to settle out so you
may run into problems getting enough into the bottles for carbonation.
John.
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Date: 24 Jun 2006 22:57:00
From: Scott Alfter
Subject: Re: Almost frozen beer
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Dick Adams <rdadams@smart.net > wrote:
>I'm going to bottle from a keg and wanted to get the temperature
>below 40F. The keg spent two days in my standup freezer last
>week. I didn't have to time to bottle so I just took it out and
>set it on the floor. I was at 53F and the room temperature was
>78F. So Thursday morning I stuck it in my empty chest freezer.
>On Friday I degassed it ond opened it to check the temperature.
>I could see the ice slush so closed it, refilled the CO2, and put
>the keg on top of a table with a towel and plastic underneath
>it. How bad is this?
I've had kegs freeze before when the computer that controlled the freezer
locked up. It didn't appear to harm the beer. I think it may have somehow
put the sediment back in suspension because the first couple of pints or so
were cloudy, but that went away after a while.
The other possibility, of course, if the keg wasn't completely frozen, would
be to pull the ice out, freeze again, and repeat a few more times. Just
make sure the revenuers never get wind of what you're doing. :-) A
homebrewer I know did that with a few gallons of doppelbock from one of the
local micros. Good stuff.
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