Freezing Extract

[Russ]

Anyone do this?

I've got a 25kg pail of Paines MO and thought about freezing half, hoping it would help keep it fresher longer. I will use the unfrozen half first in my forthcomming brews. I plan to freeze it in 3-4 kg blocks (in a cake tin or similar) then when frozen take it out of the tin and put the block in a freezer bag.

Cheers

[Beer Terrorist]

I've read of wort being stored in capped bottle (with all the relevant sterilisation undertaken) and used as yeast starters. I guess the same could be done freezing the extract in handy starter size block. Care would have to be undertaken when defrosting but a good boil should kill any nasties.

[Russ]

OK my plan failed.

I put 3 kg of Extract in a silicone mould, froze it for 24 hours.

The plan was to take this brick out of the mould and bag it in a freezer bag for storage in the freezer. I hoped I'd be able to take it out of the bag while still frozen and dump it whole in the boiler come brew day. Trouble is it hasn't frozen solid as I'd hoped and is still very sticky and flexible. If I put it in a freezer bag I'd never get it out. It's just like a big block of toffee

Nevermind I can get it out of the mould so I'll just use this block next brew day and abandon the freezing idea.