HELP! Frozen Lager and other beers

[YoKramer]

SO what had happened was ...


My temp controller (not an stc-1000 I wanted *f and got a Chinese knock off and Im dumb ) decided to take a crap in the middle of the night and turn my keezer on full retard mode and when I got up this morning it was about 18* in there and my Lager that just came off of 2 day rest and racked to secondary was mostly if not totally frozen in the carboy, there are also 2 kegs, 1 a 8% Vanilla Java Porter and the other a ~5% Canadian Ale.


The question is how screwed am I? I have overnighted an STC-1000 that I will be installing tomorrow and I have the lid closed on the keezer to hold in as much of that cold air as possible with it unplugged so it doesnt get any colder. How should I go about dealing with the 2 kegged beers or the lager?

 

[sptaylor70]

Let it thaw, let it sit for a couple of days to redissolve the CO2, then taste it.

 

[YoKramer]

Let it thaw, let it sit for a couple of days to redissolve the CO2, then taste it.

cool thanks for the reply, Ill try it this weekend.

 

[501irishred]

Let it thaw, let it sit for a couple of days to redissolve the CO2, then taste it.

+1. This happened to me as well a couple years ago (bottles, not kegs). The ones that didn't break, turned out fine.


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[heckler73]

sooo....

if one were to say, freeze a batch of bottles of Pilsner they just started lagering in a fridge turned way down, but without a temperature controller...

I'm defrosting the bottles now, but some of them are leaking frozen beer from the caps. Should I recap them, or leave them and cross my fingers? They are bottle conditioned for 6 weeks already, so won't have any bottling sugars left in them if I recap them.

 

[heckler73]

 

[sptaylor70]

Try one when they are completely thawed. If it turns out fine, then assume that the others are fine.