The total volume of the beer is 7,222.4 ml. The untreated beer also had slightly more hoppiness and a little more body. However, on the whole I can not say that the alcohol removal process dramatically changed the beer. While I would certainly prefer a regular pale ale, I found both the treated and untreated versions of this beer to be very drinkable, and certainly recognizable as beer. Freezing the beer, removing the extract, heating only the extract, and returning the extract to the frozen beer gives the benefits of alcohol removal without losing all of the body, hoppiness and color found in the extract.
Improvement is needed primarily on the efficiency of the heating process to remove alcohol.
A longer heating process is necessary. One-half of the volume that evaporates could be replaced by water without harming the color or flavor of the extract. I would be very interested in receiving any comments or suggestions anyone might have.