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Your 1 gallon beer kits from northern brewer comes with fizz drops that you put into the bottles during bottling. One fizz drop per bottle. No mixing priming hm sugar and come out th with decent carbonation. May not be to style but for the r first couple of batches it will give you an idea

BrewR is a good one for recipe management. Brewers friend is another good one and is part of the forum.

Things have changed since I've last posted this intro. I still haven't done any 5 gallon kits. I have done 1 gallon kits from northern brewer with their 1 gallon starter kit. I have done in order their white house honey ale. Cream ale. American wheat and here recently their Irish red ale. I...

I have only done 4 batches and the have come from northern brewer. The fastest one I've done was the american wheat. Brewed on Sunday and kegged the following Sunday. Put the gallon batch into a 5 gallon pin lock keg at 10psi and was ready to drink by Friday. It was a bit cloudy on the first...

I've only made a few batches and I've only used the gallon carboy that came in the kit. Its nice for someone who likes to watch the fermentation. Like me.

I just started using a refractometer on my last batch. Then comparing readings with nb site on refractometer calculations.

I use brewers friend also and find its a great app. How up to date is the refractometer converter? I compared it with nb's and there was a big difference on the finished calculations.

I figured I would use more co2 but I was just wondering if it would carbonate the same as a 5 gallon batch. Thank you for your answers.

Can you carbonate 1 gallon of beer in a 5 gallon pin lock keg?

I'm doing a cream ale right now. Smells good.

Thanks for your help everyone. Can't wait to try it

How much spiced cider would I need to add for a one gallon kit and would I add it at a week or rack to fermenter when I add the worth?

I live in western central Ohio. I'm not wanting to make an exact clone just similar. It is some great stuff and I don't really know how I would put it all together. Any suggestions would be appreciated and very helpful. I have an american wheat recipe from nb I was thinking about trying it with.

Has anyone ever had the shock top honey crisp apple wheat? I'm looking to possibly clone it but not sure what spices go in it.

That is how mine looked too. I brewed it 1/3 and bottled 2 weeks later and opened 1 every other week since. I have 1 left and it will sit a bit. Its good but needs more time to mellow