[IBU] freezing point of beer

[Derek Brooks]

Speaking of Freezing beer.  Is anyone planning on going to Bock Fest at the
Schell Brewery in New Ulm in a couple weeks?
This will be my 3rd consecutive year.

It's one of the only beer festivals I've been to where your beer actually
gets COLDER as the day goes on.

On 1/17/08, Mike Edwards <mike.edwards at edwardsbrewing.com> wrote:
>
> Assuming the UC Davis formula that Cory posted is correct, something
> like Budweiser (3.8 alc & 9 P?) would freeze at about -1.03 C, and an
> imaginary barleywine (10 alc & 25 P) would freeze closer to -3 C.
>
> Your experiment sounds like more fun though!
>
> Appenzeller, Laura wrote:
> > Mike, I'd say that because beer in general has very little alcohol
> > content, the alcohol would not have as much effect on the freezing point
> > as the amount of dissolved solids (refractometer reading).  "thinner"
> > beers would freeze more readily than chewier beers.  But that's not
> > based on science; this would be a really easy lab experiment to perform,
> > if I were still in the lab!  I would set up a series of sample tubes
> > with 6,7,8,9, and 10% alcohol, constant sugar%; and another set of tubes
> > with (?) a range of relevant sugar (to represent all dissolved solids)
> > concentrations with constant alcohol %; put 'em all in the freezer,
> > check on them at regular intervals, and note when each began to change
> > phase.
> >
> > --  LMA
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: ibu-bounces at iowabrewersunion.org
> > [mailto:ibu-bounces at iowabrewersunion.org] On Behalf Of Mike Edwards
> > Sent: Thursday, January 17, 2008 3:53 PM
> > To: Iowa Brewers Union
> > Subject: [IBU] freezing point of beer
> >
> > I know I could probably google or wikipedia (is that a verb yet?) this
> > answer, but since we have so many engineers and lab-rats in the club, I
> > figured I'd stir up some e-mails with this:  What is the freezing point
> > of beer, and does the alcohol content have a significant effect on it?
> >
> > See y'all at DRAW!
> >
> > Prost!
> > Mike
> >
> > --
> > Mike Edwards
> > www.edwardsbrewing.com
> > There are 16 days until Bockfest 2008!
> > http://www.schellsbrewery.com/newsevents_info.php?id=6
> >
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> http://www.schellsbrewery.com/newsevents_info.php?id=6
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Derek Brooks
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