Bonehead Move - Have you ever done this?

I'm sad about that new glarus.

 

I think your dry yeast will be fine.

I mistakenly forgot to make sure the temperature probe was in one of my chest freezers four times now throughout the years. Damages have included:

1. A batch of homebrewed hefeweizen getting heated to about 175F or more. Most of the bottles steamed and exploded. The few that made it were caramalized / had loads of malliard reactions

2. 2x 6.5 gallon carboys of belgian wit freezing solid for days. Wit slushy poured out of the tops / knocked the airlocks out. Water and beer completed separated (but both were frozen) and the beer sucked when I thawed it out and sampled it so I drain poured it.

3. 4x bottles of Back Acre Beer Maker Golden Sour + about 6x bombers of Lawson's Finest Liquids + about 4x bottles of Logsdon Seizon Bretta froze, popped caps/corks, and slushed right out of the bottles.

4. 2x 6.5 gallon carboys of Session Porter freezing (barely) less than 3 days into primary fermentation.

 

My father in law did it once while he was working on our electrical... Had a corny of root beer push through the gaskets, and stretch the rubber top yet somehow it remains useable to this day. I also had a flask of ECY Brett starter in there frozen solid and thankfully that one I was able to revive.

As for your dry yeast, if a slurry make a starter. If dry, that's the best way to store it.

 

I'm not lucky enough have a kegging set-up yet, so no, I have not. Though I'll be using a fridge instead of a chest freezer when I do.

The yeast is fine.

In related news, I was in Wisconsin yesterday and picked up a bottle of the NG Strawberry Rhubarb, along with Serendipity and Raspberry Tart. Looking forward to trying it, and am quite jealous that you can get it anytime you want.

 

I had the same thing happen a few years ago, but I froze 2 kegs of homebrew and didn't even know it. I just started noticing that a pint of my porter or Irsih red ale was all it took to make me wobble. When the first keg was kicked i took it out and found a huge ice cube that took up half the keg. I made eis ales.