Box left out all night in 0 degree temps

I'm curious to see what happens with it. Hopefully it's fine and nothing exploded, freezing should be ok if nothing leaked.

 

Hopefully you got mostly high abv beers as those will probably have a good chance to make it at that temp...

 

I bet OP forgets about this and posts tomorrow.

 

Mmmmm beer slushies

 

High ABV beers being relatively freeze-proof is actually a myth, as the freezing point unfortunately drops slowly with increased ABV. (Tripling the alcohol from 4% to 12% ABV provides only about 6F additional freeze resistance.)

 

Can you elaborate? Do you mean that if beer freezes and then thaws there's no degradation in quality as long as it didn't leak?

 

Tell me it ain't so brotha. Not the 'Lure!

I didn't even look to see when it was delivered so hopefully that wasn't it.

 

Whew! lol, I remember one of the last things you told me was "if it freezes on the porch, its on me" or something close to that. BTW, your overly well packed box (as always) arrived safe and sound. Thanks again!

 

Technically yes...if it didn't leak, there is nowhere for any of the beer, to go so it is still 100% sealed inside the bottle...when thawed it should go back to normal. I opened up a bottle that froze on me before (Logsdon Seizon Bretta) and I couldn't tell the difference from one that hasn't been frozen...but that's just me, it might be different for you.

Glad all your bottles made it, that's scary.

 

FWIW, windchill isn't relevant

 

Generally, freezing and unfreezing can be bad for beer because the yeast can freeze and rupture (imparting off flavors) among other less prominent concerns.

As for wind chill, I suspect that it can actually be an issue, although a minor one. If there is moisture (snow, for instance), wind can help bring the box down to the "wet bulb" temperature rather than the ambient temperature, which is suppressed due to evaporative cooling (whether a liquid to vapor "boiling" transition or a solid to vapor "subliming" transition). Maybe my memory of thermodynamics is not great, but I'd think this is a very possible (but minor) possibility.

 

This is a very useful reference: http://van.physics.illinois.edu/qa/listing.php?id=1640

 

What distracted you from that kinda box, Kate Upton come prancing around?

 

So I had a box come today...-9 last night and hovered under 0 all morning...box was delivered to FedEx location about 1:30 PM, picked up and within a half hour found out and nothing was frozen, broken, leaking, etc...I was shocked. All beers were under 7% abv too.

If it means anything he triple boxed, bagged and wrapped the hell out of every bottle. Impressive pack job.

 

Really? Doesn't cold air flowing past that box transfer heat out of the box at a more rapid rate than without the wind? It's the same concept of wind chill and the human body. Or another more relevant example, putting a bottle in the chiller at the store. The movement of water around the bottle will accelerate the drop of temperature.

I'm curious why the impact of wind chill would be excluded from a box of beer, but not other objects.

 

Wins chill doesn't make things colder. It'll cool it faster but it won't make it colder (wet bulb example mentioned above aside)

Say it's 40 degrees outside and wind chill is 5 degrees. Put a bucket of water outside and it'll only chill to 40 degrees, not 5.