Froze my beer after fermenting but before bottling

[Blinky]

i put my latest pale in in my beer fridge and turned it up full, but did not expect it to freeze! So today I went to bottle and discovered a full 20l ice Cube! Is this now ruined? What do you guys suggest? I’m thinking of leaving it to defrost, then sticking it back in the fridge for a few more days to let any remaining hop particles that were frozen drop out but should I then add more yeast prior to bottling....

 

[cushyno]

You will definitely need fresh yeast if you want to bottle carbonate. I haven't tried this before but several forum members sprinkle a little dried yeast in with their bottling sugar.
Make sure the beer is back at 20°C before adding the new yeast.

 

[Blinky]

I normally bottle it cold, so let it warm up and then add yeast and bottle? Think I might be best to let it warm up, move it to another fermentor to get it off the sludge as there is loads of hops in it! Then warm it up, add dry yeast, 0.5 pack? Mix it up and leave then hope for the best and bottle a few days later?

 

[cushyno]

That sounds ok to me, rehydrating the yeast then may be better than trying to add a few grains to each bottle.

 

[terrym]

I would thaw it out but leave it in a cold place for 2/3 days to allow it to fully clear then rack off to another FV or bottling bucket before warming it up prior to adding fresh yeast and bottling. If only because you don't know what flavours any residual old previously frozen yeast might introduce to your beer.

 

[Ghillie]

You're going to have a lovely clear beer!

 

[Blinky]

I’m back to thinking of just adding a few wee sprinkles of yeast to each bottle at bottling time..... That means I’m not really warming it up to 20 degrees, just back to say 4 or 5 my normal bottling temp. I just dont want to warm it up and chill it down and loose a lot of hop flavour -would rather just keep it all chilled

 

[Llamaman]

Was I the only one that read this and thought of Ice Beer? Aventinus EisBier is epic.