What are you nervous for I’ve actually frozen beer to get them to clear.
I’ve accidentally done that in the past… Put in the garage… Then I get wrapped around life’s axel… Remember a few weeks later!! Although, I never saw the keg get deformed… Enough CO2 to absorb the freezing effect?
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I had one of these in our RV fridge. Takes a D cell battery. Might work.
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Looks interesting, thanks. I was going to put a ‘Y’ splitter on the cooling plug off the inkbird so a little AC powered muffin fan would run when the unit was actively cooling. I will have to check this out.
Beer won’t freeze until I think 28F anyway.
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Depends on ABV… But it will freeze, albeit very slowly… Think of ice beer… oohh, winter X-beer meant coming up?
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Anyone do an ice Bock?
When I first started, I did… Probably shouldn’t count as I knew very little about this hobby…
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Not a Bock but I did an ice beer a long time ago when I was just starting to keg. Made a basic cream ale and after kegging set it out on the porch with Saran wrap over the top when it was about 10° out then scooped out the ice. If I remember correctly it was “crisp” but did have a little alcohol bite. Waited till summer to break it out and some friends got a pretty good buzz from it.
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I probably wouldn’t like it that strong
Isn’t that the whole idea behind an ice bock? To increase the maltiness and alcochol content by scooping out the ice?
Yes it is. I have no interest in brewing or drinking one. But since we were talking about freezing beer I figured I’d ask
Same. Bocks are bit too malty sweet for me. I brewed a doppelbock a three times for a buddy a few years ago. He loved final one and said it was close to the beer he remembered from his time stationed in Germany. It was too sweet for me.
Sweet? Did you use crystal malt?
10% cara amber, 20% pils, 70% dark munich. I think the last version that he really liked was something like 16-17 IBU noble hops. It was just a malt bomb to me.
I liked the one version I did with 25 IBU and if I were brewing it for myself would have hopped it more and increased the pils malt to lighten it up a bit but he wanted it heavy and malty so that’s what I did. We were trying to replicate a beer from his memory. Since we’re way off topic…I think there’s a good bit of it documented here. Brewing Doppel Bock
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I once did an ice beer, but by accident. I had just developed my first glycol system and thought what better of a beer than a lager with a nice cold crash I can do right in the conical! When I went to keg I only got about 7 gallons, which really confused me. I took the lid off my conical to find:
It was WICKED. A light lager that drank like such but was 8%.
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I had one very cold corner in my keezer so I put a small USB powered fan intended to cool audio equipment near the top of that corner, pointing down between the kegs. Temps are much more uniform now.
Good idea…does it reduce condensation and/ or mildew?
Ah - a good topic as summer approaches. It does seem to help a little to keep the air moving. I think what helps most is not opening the keezer any more than really needed. The moisture in any warm humid air that gets inside is going to condense when it gets chilled. I think the fan / moving air tends to help move the air off the sides and to the bottom. I did also put an open weave rubber mat on the bottom of my keezer.
That has however contributed to out of sight, out of mind. The bottom gets messy if I don’t remember to drain, clean and dry it once in a while!
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I just got a small AC powered muffin fan, I am going to split off the cooling outlet on my inkbird so when it calls for cooling the fan will also run.
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