Why doesn't liquor freeze?

Answer 1

Alcohol is the reason, but it is the reason because of the low freezing point of alcohol.

Ethyl alcohol has a freezing point of -114 °C/-173 °F, so if you want your vodka shots to be frozen you need a much stronger freezing source than your average home refrigerator. Now if you stored your booze outside of the International Space Station (in permanent shadow) or if you hid it in a permanently shadowed crater on Mars of the moon then you could get frozen booze.

You can't freeze your booze in most countries, because of the harmful by-products produced and because the process is polluting.

According to Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeze_distillation
"In practice, while not able to produce an alcohol concentration comparable to distillation, this technique can achieve some concentration with far less effort than any practical distillation apparatus would require.

Today, freeze distillation of alcoholic beverages is illegal in many countries because a number of by-products of fermentation (fusel alcohols), which are mostly removed by heat distillation, tend to accumulate to an unhealthy level in freeze-distilled beverages.

The best-known freeze-distilled beverages are applejack and ice beer. Ice wine is the result of a similar process, but in this case, the freezing happens before the fermentation, and thus it is sugar, not alcohol that gets concentrated."

Answer 2

The higher the alcohol content, the less likely it is to freeze. If it's a lower content, it will at least turn to a slushy consistency.

Many people will freeze wine that they've left open for too long. Put it in ice cube trays, let it stay there for several days, then dump the wine cubes into a baggie. You can use them in soups, stews and sauces to add a rich flavor and possibly some color, if it's a red wine. Matter of fact, I have a bottle of red that I'll have to do that with. I didn't feel it was much good for drinking, but it made an excellent beef burgundy dish this past weekend.:-D

Answer 3

The alcohol content makes the freezing point lower. If you use dry ice, you might be able to freeze liquor.

Answer 4

from old yahoo!answers:
The alcohol content makes the freezing point lower. If you use dry ice, you might be able to freeze liquor

Answer 5

Alcohol has a lower freezing point than water or other liquids such as juice or milk. You won't be able to do it with your home freezer. However, I once turned it as low as it would go, and when I added the vodka to cranberry juice to make a drink, little bits of the cranberry turned to ice crystals on account of the vodka being so cold. It looked gross, but tasted the same nonetheless.

Answer 6

Its all about the alcohol content. Freezers only go to like -2 C and that well above alcohol freezing point.

Answer 7

Yup - they are all right. Alcohol has a much lower freezing point. The higher the percentage of alcohol, the colder it has to be to freeze.

Answer 8

Liquor freezes, but at a temperature way below what your freezer at home can reach. Your freezer just isn't (nor can you make it) cold enough to do what you're trying to do.

Answer 9

alcohol content makes the freezing point lower

Answer 10

It will, but you have to get it really, really cold (colder than your freezer will go). It because alcohol has a much lower freezing point than water