If you freeze half a beer will the rest of the liquid have a higher alcohol content?!
Answers: Alcohol freezes at a much lower temperature than water. so if you froze a beer to where half of it is frozen the rest of the liquid should have a higher alcohol content, right?
Yes! It's called fractional crystallization. In New England, this method is used with cider to produce applejack (traditionally, they'd leave a keg out on a snowbank).
Alcohol has a lower freezing point than water, so if you were to freeze beer, you would freeze off some of the water, leaving the alcohol (and other parts of it) more concentrated. The carbonation would be gone, btw. But the flavors would be more intense, and not necessarily in a good way. One of the problems with freeze-distilling is that it tends to concentrate trace compounds that make hangovers worse.
It's also technically illegal, but who's gonna catch you? "Uh, no, officer, that's not a still, it's...my freezer."
So feel free to try it out, but be aware that the results might be disappointing.
good question
sounds right, but itll taste like crap
wow i never thought of it that way. It might just work.
ye its called a super beer, put some beers in the freezer, when they are frozen pour the liquid from them into a cup( about one once youll get each beer), about 5 beers and you will be hammereddd trust mee
From what I understand alcohol does not freeze but there may some other liquid in there that would freeze. If that happens then most likely the alcohol content will rise.
Yep, it's called Freeze Distillation.
You can do it with beer, wine, malt liquor. Eisbocks from Germany are made this way.
yes...this is a good idea as long as you figure out how to separate the hops and water from the alcohol so they dont unthaw back in the drink
yes but why would you ruin your beer for
Thats right. But tastes nasty... :((((((
In theory, yes. The problem comes in separating the ice from the rest of the beer. Your skimmer must be cold enough that it does not melt the ice back into the beer. The other problem is that the process is illegal in the U.S. Watch out for those revenooers from ATF.