Freezing vodka.?

Never had a bottle of vodka smash either. Had a bottle of Smirnoff Red in the freezer once and it had little bits of ice floating around in it, looked quite cool :p
I've currently got Smirnoff Black in there (it was on offer :p) and its very nice with a mixer - love not having to find some ice. Its quite a bit more viscous than normal :)

Once I've finished off the black and gone through the Russian Standard I have I'll be buying some Grey Goose or similar :)
 
Tom0 said:
It will smash you cant freeze glass, transfer it to a plastic bottle and yep can do it :)

Edit: Doesn't freeze but will be nice and mighty cold :D
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How can you freeze jager if glass smashes, hell how can you freeze glasses for smoke tricks.
The expansion of something when it freezes smashes the glass.

BTW, wine lolly was epic in black books.
 
I have experimented with this a few times with strange results, a bottle of sky vodka will freeze in about a week to pretty much solid it seems, bottles of smirnoff eventully freeze, but absolut never freezes at all, i would have said the sky is a better vodka compared to the absolut as well, it certinatly is taste wise.
 
The glass wont shatter due to the gradual change in temperature (also it has a low coefficient of thermal expansion making glass rather temperature stable). The only reason it would shatter is due to a large scratches in the surface propagating into the glass during temperature change. This is amplified when the temperature change is quick due to internal stresses not being able to relax or dissipate quickly enough.

As for the Alcohol and any other liquid for that matter, they all will freeze but at different temperatures not necessarily 0 degrees.

If you could get the vodka to freeze then the glass might shatter because water expands when it freezes which is generally the opposite to most substances/materials
 
you can freeze it, just takes a very, very cold freezer.

It won't crack, the glass cracks from rapid change of temperature, unlikely to happen in a freezer as it will take a few minutes to cool down.

And you can freeze beer in a normal freezer most of the time, without the glass cracking or cap popping.

:)
 
probably more slush like id imagine, as it will begin to freeze.
those freezing points are more of a guide and with different types of vodka they will have different tolerances.
 
One thing I'm curious about, at just below 0, will the water content in vodka begin to freeze, or does the alcohol act like salt in that it lowers the freezing point of the water?
 
I dunno, my dads beer fridge got destroyed a few years ago when the temperature dropped and all the beer froze and exploded. Was a sad sight.
I can't see freezing beer without destroying the original glass/ can working.
 
-Tauren- said:
awesome, i bet that is great to drink!
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It's not thick enough to make a massive difference to drinking it. But you can see in the glass its not quite so runny :p
Imagine different vodkas might react differently, I'm pretty sure the Absolut I have had in the freezer in the past didn't noticeably change
 
daz said:
That's Smirnoff for you. Try Russian Standard, Stolichnaya, Belvedere, Grey Goose.
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I have - Stolly does it as well. As several people have pointed out, it's simply down to temperature: if the stuff gets cold enough then the water will freeze out, leaving the ethanol as a liquid.


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