Is it possible to store beer in the freezer and what to do with a frozen drink?

Leaving the bottle or can of the hop drink to cool for too long, you may be disappointed to find that the beer has frozen in the freezer, turning into an ice. Also, the foam can freeze when it is in the car in the cold season. If it was stored in a plastic bottle, it is unhealthy to drink or use it after thawing in any way. But the drink, which was stored in a glass container and accidentally frozen, does not have to be thrown out immediately. After it melts, it can be used for other purposes. In addition, sometimes the taste of the drink remains good even after thawing.

Beer freezes at a lower temperature than water. The exact figure cannot be named - it depends on the composition of a particular product. The higher the strength and the denser the wort, the lower the freezing temperature. Typically, a drink turns into ice at a thermometer from -2 ° C to -5 degrees.

What to do with frozen beer?

If the beer is not completely frozen, then it can maintain a pleasant taste. This happens when 20-30% of the bottle remains in a liquid state.

An important factor is the quality and composition of beer. It is better to first try to defrost a bottle - what if its contents remained acceptable for taste?

If the drink has turned into a whole ice floe, then the taste and useful properties will be lost. Also, gas will escape from it. But the smell and strength will remain (only if the bottle remains intact).

Glass, unlike plastic containers and cans, often freezes when frozen. The bottom or neck will most likely fall off, and splinters will fall into the liquid. What is left after that is better to throw away, otherwise you risk drinking particles of broken glass.

Plastic bottles are not damaged during freezing. But if you drink thawed beer from them, you can be poisoned: harmful substances will be released from the container.

Defrost the product gradually. Temperature differences should not be too sharp. It is better not to put the bottle in hot water, not to heat near a fire, not to leave it on the battery.

You can put frozen beer in the refrigerator, and there it slowly but surely thaws. To make it defrost evenly, you need to rotate the bottle 180 degrees every 12 hours. So the probability that sediment appears at the bottom will become less.

How to use beer that has lost its taste?

If you no longer feel like drinking thawed beer because of an unpleasant taste, you can find another use for it:

• Use when cooking. There are many recipes for delicious dishes, which are used by everyone's favorite foamy drink. You can bake meat with beer, use it as a marinade, make pizza dough or even pancakes on its basis.
• Make a beer hair mask. It has an excellent cosmetic effect, cleanses hair well, makes it soft and at the same time strong.
• You can splash foam on hot stones in the bath, filling it with a pleasant aroma.

How much beer is cooled?

In order not to find a piece of ice in a broken bottle instead of a forgotten beer in the freezer, it is better to keep the drink in the refrigerator.

Tips from true connoisseurs of foamy:

• If you really cannot wait to taste cold beer, then send it to the freezer and set the timer on the phone. Cooling to the desired temperature will take no more than 10-12 minutes, after which the bottle must be removed from the freezer.
• There is another way: place the bottle in the refrigerator, after wrapping it with a damp paper towel.So after 5-10 minutes it will be cold enough and at the same time not icy.
• A good way to bring down the temperature of a beer is to cool the glasses by putting them in the freezer. The drink gets colder and the mug warms. Everything is simple and effective. It is also important here not to overdo it so that the dishes do not burst.

Beer is generally undesirable to put in the freezer - it loves gradual cooling, and not a sharp temperature drop. In the refrigerator, it better preserves the taste and useful properties. In addition, it is better to cool it evenly, periodically turning the bottle.

But even if the cooling did not go according to plan and a good, tasty drink began to resemble ice cream, it is not worth throwing it away. If it was not stored in a plastic bottle, then it can remain not hazardous to health and quite tasty, albeit not carbonated.