Conditioning temp - too cold?

[dickiedavis]

Hi, me again...

I have a bottled St Peters Stout conditioning in my garage, but with the recent cold weather it gets down to around 1 degree in there (in really harsh winters it gets to freezing). Will this spoil the brew? SWMBO isn't too keen on having the house look like a pub (why?), so it has to go in the garage.

Also, I have a Coopers stout in a barrel in the porch (you can now see why ). It gets really cold out there too and it seems to be using a lot of CO2 to get out of the tap. One good squirt is usually gone in a couple of pints and I have to gas up again, but it seems to hold pressure overnight, so I assume there is no leak. Could the cold make the brew absorb the CO2?
That's a top pint, that coopers...

D.

 

[wezil]

Hi, it's certainly a bit chilly!! But so long as it doesn't freeze you'll be ok, stability of temp is perhaps more important. And yes, as a water based liquid (beer in this case) gets colder it will hold more co2 in suspension (which will come out when the beer warms up, so can result in gushers)!