Long time lurker here. I'm interested whether anyone has built a 3 gallon electric all grain system.
I've been doing stovetop all grain brewing for a while, and I love it, but frankly it takes a lot of time and the wife says she wants me out of the kitchen. The second issue is I don't drink a ton of beer (strange I know...but I like brewing it). So my 5 gallon batches end up sitting around forever in my kegerator while I get antsy for new beer, so small batches would work well for me.
I would like to setup a brewing system in my basement that is 1) electric, 2) designed for small batches. Has anyone done anything like this? Should I just look at the systems out there and scale them down. I'm mainly curious if anyone has tried something like this and encountered any problems. I'm trying to decide between doing something like this or going back to extract.
I've been doing stovetop all grain brewing for a while, and I love it, but frankly it takes a lot of time and the wife says she wants me out of the kitchen. The second issue is I don't drink a ton of beer (strange I know...but I like brewing it). So my 5 gallon batches end up sitting around forever in my kegerator while I get antsy for new beer, so small batches would work well for me.
I would like to setup a brewing system in my basement that is 1) electric, 2) designed for small batches. Has anyone done anything like this? Should I just look at the systems out there and scale them down. I'm mainly curious if anyone has tried something like this and encountered any problems. I'm trying to decide between doing something like this or going back to extract.