Novacastrian
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Hey guys i am pretty new to brewing and need some advice in regards to a lager that i recently brewed.
It is a Coopers kit that called for the use of 1kg of sugar, so being me i used .5 kg of dex and .5 kg of light dry malt instead.
Anyway the ferment went good and last night i put the carboy in my 200 ltr freezer to crash down to around 2 degrees before racking off and bottling.
Now i told myself many times that this was not a good idea because i was drunk and thought that i would forget to take it out of the freezer and it would turn into a popsicle. Well i was half right, i did forget to take it out but this morning when my gf said "your beer is frozen" i said "F#$K" and went to check it.
It was not frozen through, it was more like the consistency of a slushy on the outsides and fairy liquid on the inside with ice pieces floating around. I would like to know if this brew still has a chance in hell of carbonating as to my way of thinking the yeasties would have just experienced an Alaskan summer and this could have killed a lot of them.
I have read through some filtering threads in the past and learnt that a brew doesn't need all that much live yeast to carb properly but would like some advice so i dont go and bottle all this only to find out down the track that i wasted my time.
Thanks fellow piss heads.
It is a Coopers kit that called for the use of 1kg of sugar, so being me i used .5 kg of dex and .5 kg of light dry malt instead.
Anyway the ferment went good and last night i put the carboy in my 200 ltr freezer to crash down to around 2 degrees before racking off and bottling.
Now i told myself many times that this was not a good idea because i was drunk and thought that i would forget to take it out of the freezer and it would turn into a popsicle. Well i was half right, i did forget to take it out but this morning when my gf said "your beer is frozen" i said "F#$K" and went to check it.
It was not frozen through, it was more like the consistency of a slushy on the outsides and fairy liquid on the inside with ice pieces floating around. I would like to know if this brew still has a chance in hell of carbonating as to my way of thinking the yeasties would have just experienced an Alaskan summer and this could have killed a lot of them.
I have read through some filtering threads in the past and learnt that a brew doesn't need all that much live yeast to carb properly but would like some advice so i dont go and bottle all this only to find out down the track that i wasted my time.
Thanks fellow piss heads.
