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that was using the little bar refrig – right? Sounds like it must get a lot colder than 36° to have frozen the meat. Did you have a recording thermometer keeping an “eye” on it? Here’s an earlier thread about such a unit. Personally I bought one to get a feel for the consistency of my refrig for a while.
http://www.drybagsteak.com/forum/17-dry-aging-with-drybags/59-a-tool-i-use-in-my-drybag-refrigeration-process
I’m sincerely sorry your first attempt went wrong. In the future could you transfer other food items to the bar frig for cold storage while your sub-primal took up residency in your main refrig? More and more I’m sold on the virtues of a refrig that in fact gets opened and closed daily. As for temp fluctuations you don’t worry about your milk or eggs so why worry about aging a piece of beef sealed in a DrybagSteak bag?