Frozen beer!?

OkieDokie · Posted: Sat Nov 16, 2013 10:23 pm Post subject: Frozen beer!?

So I was at the crash chill phase after fermentation with the gelatin added and opened things up to keg and noticed floating ice chunks. Is that a problem?

Holter · Joined: 07 Oct 2011 Posts: 221 Location: Los Angeles, Ca

Its not really good or bad. You will want to make sure the ice melts before racking the beer to keg though. The ice chunks are water, so if you rack your beer off to keg and leave behind the ice chunks you will have changed the composition of the beer - higher ABV, etc. Its actually a method used for creating an Eisbock.

Good luck.

Fejj · Joined: 10 Jun 2013 Posts: 213 Location: North Shore, MA

Its not a big deal like Holter said, but i would wonder why your beer is freezing. Describe your fridge setup with anything in use for chilling, maybe we can troubleshoot it:)

Ozarks Mountain Brew · Posted: Sun Nov 17, 2013 5:42 pm Post subject:

had this happen to me, in the summer using my plate chiller doesn't work worth a darn so decided to put my carboy in the sub zero freezer over night to chill, one day I forgot to pull it out in the morning before work and had a thin layer of ice on the top, just let it set in the worm garage for the rest of the day sealed and it turned out fine, matter of fact the beer seemed clearer than normal