Beer Slushie

[new2brew]

Just went to the fridge to grab a beer after work and a strange things are afoot in the beer fridge.

I had 2 6-packs in the fridge on the shelf below the freezer and all 12 beers were frozen, yet on the same shelf there were 2 stubbies of hieniken the were not frozen. :huh: Anyone know why the homebrew might has frozen, yet the commercial beer not, aside from the temp in the fridge being too cold?

When the homebrew thaws out and clears again, will the product be effected? :blink:

 

[Muggus]

Damn! That always sucks.
It could be a number of things, possibly the type or thickness of the bottles, the abv of the beer, the adjuncts added to the beer, the residual sugar in the beer...hard to say. Sounds like something worthy of an experiment.

It happened to me once when I left a few of tinnies of Tooheys New in my fridge for a few days. I have my fridge set pretty cold anyway, but they managed to turn into slushy whilst no other beers have since. Could have had something to do with it being in a can, but i'm not entirely sure.

 

[Kingy]

Ive got an esky that always makes beer slushys with cans when loaded up with ice.

My beer fridge tho is set at about 3 degrees and for some reason when i put 2x2litre bottles of water in the freezer (for my lunch esky) my thin HB longnecks freeze up first and if i forget or dont use the water bottles my kegs freeze as well. I just let them thaw out and they still taste the same to me anyway.

Hops only in the freezer now. And have overcome this problem

 

[new2brew]

Ok, will run an experiment tonight.

I will put into the fridge into sealed bottles
1. bottle of plain water (as control)
2. bottle of water with carb drop added
3. bottle of homebrew
4. bottle of commercial beer

will let everyone know the results in the morning

 

[microbe]

2. bottle of water with carb drop added

Wouldn't you be better just to make some sugar water - I don't think that'll carb up - if that was your intention.

 

[new2brew]

sugar added to water will freeze, no doubt.....

I dont want it to carb up, what I want is to provide the same conditions to a bottle of water as to that of a bottle of homebrew.

if the carb drop bottle freezes and the beer doesnt, means something in the beer that drops the freezing point to that below water... 0c

 

[new2brew]

After careful scientific analysis, I have come up with the final synopsis for the frozen beer of 3 days ago.

the results of the experiment are as follows...

the plain water froze first, then the water with the carb drop, followed by the Homebrew

My homebrew has a SG lower than that of the commercial beer. Knowing that SG effects the way in which a liquid reacts with cold tempartures, and dropping its freezing point to a temprature lower than plain water(The higher the SG, longer time is needed to make it freeze.) it is my conclusion that the commercial beer would have frozen as well had I not got to it in time. :beer:

lesson learned? Make the fridge warmer!