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Jmarsh544

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From my understanding when you put a bottle of beer into the fridge the yeast fall dormant and stop doing what they do best (just like a mini cold crash). If this is the case would it be possible to add a bottle of beer from the same batch into the fridge once a week (letting them collect) and have a snap shot of what conditioning your beer for a long period of time does to flavor/ overall beer taste. I could then open them all at the same time and see the life cycle that a bottle conditioning beer goes through. Has anyone tried this and would it work in the manner that I am thinking?
 
Interesting idea.

I don't know if flavor development stops once cold though. I thought that was
just to precipitate the flocculation of the yeast. Cellaring temps are like 50, right?

So it seems like there would still be flavor development in the fridge but I only
have speculation to offer on that.
 
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