My lager has frozen

Aviary · Post by **Aviary** » Monday Feb 12, 2007 9:02 pm

Hello all,

I brewed a lager recently and was cold conditioning the bottled beer in a small fridge. Being slightly slow on the complexities of refrigeration mechanics, I turned it down too low and the beer froze in the bottles. They had been primed and bottled 10 days earlier.

I used Saflager 34/70 yeast.

Have I ruined the beer? Heaven help me if that tragedy occurred.

Thanks,
David.

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Monday Feb 12, 2007 9:09 pm

Probably not. I'd just turn the fridge to a lower setting and let the temp rise back up to 1-2 degrees. Watch out for broken glass though. And get a FridgeMate, they are great and prevent these things!

beerdrinker · Post by **beerdrinker** » Monday Feb 12, 2007 11:03 pm

2nd the mighty fridgemate

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Tuesday Feb 13, 2007 8:51 am

In "How to Brew" Palmer accidentally froze his fermenter whilst lagering, it turned out fine.

SpillsMostOfIt · Post by **SpillsMostOfIt** » Tuesday Feb 13, 2007 4:11 pm

Ash wrote:In "How to Brew" Palmer accidentally froze his fermenter whilst lagering, it turned out fine.

In the fourth series, Dr Who froze time and... Oops, Sorry. Wrong forum...

Mr_Booze · Post by **Mr_Booze** » Tuesday Feb 13, 2007 5:42 pm

This is kind of off topic slightly, but....

I have this Dutch Lager that was fairly dismal, with a very, very yeasty taste. Anyway, I turned my fridge down a little bit each day, until it was almost freezing. Hey presto! This beer now tastes like liquid gold!! No yeasty taste or smell.

Can anyone explain this phenomenon? (It's probably something really simple, but this has never happened to me before.)

P.S. I now really regret ramming heaps of this brew down my throat, in order to get onto my next one as quickly as possible...

Pale_Ale · Post by **Pale_Ale** » Tuesday Feb 13, 2007 6:45 pm

I think with the colder temperatures it helps the yeast drop out of suspension and to settle in the trub