I just crashed a Kolsch and didn't know it had frozen. I pulled a pound of grain off my usual recipe cause my ABVs are getting higher as I've improved my process to eliminate any lost wort from kettle to keg. Anyway, since the ABV is expected to be around 4% on this one I think...much lower than my typical brew.
What happened was after crashing for a few days I kegged it. The tap first just barely dripped cloudly beer when I did the gravity check. I'm thinking there must be a lost of trub clogging the spigot. It eventually starts flowing ok. So I attached the hose and filled the keg. The beer stopped and I'm over a gallon short???? I'm like where is my beer go??? I don't see any leaks or anything where it had been fermenting for 2-3 weeks???
So I open up the fermenter bucket lid...There is an iceberg of beer hanging on the side of the bucket. Apparently the spigot froze as well. All I could do was cover up the keg and wait for the "beer-berg" to melt...which took several hours...and finish kegging.
I purged the keg several times but basically the beer had been exposed for several hours. I guess only time will tell as it's going to cellar at 40' for another month or so before drinking.
What happened was after crashing for a few days I kegged it. The tap first just barely dripped cloudly beer when I did the gravity check. I'm thinking there must be a lost of trub clogging the spigot. It eventually starts flowing ok. So I attached the hose and filled the keg. The beer stopped and I'm over a gallon short???? I'm like where is my beer go??? I don't see any leaks or anything where it had been fermenting for 2-3 weeks???
So I open up the fermenter bucket lid...There is an iceberg of beer hanging on the side of the bucket. Apparently the spigot froze as well. All I could do was cover up the keg and wait for the "beer-berg" to melt...which took several hours...and finish kegging.
I purged the keg several times but basically the beer had been exposed for several hours. I guess only time will tell as it's going to cellar at 40' for another month or so before drinking.