mashpaddled
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Thank you. I'll look into those. I am thinking I will need to figure out how to make from a recipe and not a kit at some point. The simplicity of the kits is tempting but they get expensive and I'm not sure I'm learning much.
If anyone knows of a source of good one gallon recipes (all grain or extract) or has already properly converted 5 gallon to 1 gallon it would be appreciated.
I do fear it may not be as simple as just dividing by five though. You can't always just cut down a recipe in baking. Beer may be similar.
Hops, malt and yeast can scale linearly at homebrew recipes but you probably need to adjust water volumes. If you boil in a pot with a larger surface to volume ratio than a five gallon batch then you will get a higher percentage of boiloff. You will also have a larger percentage of dead volume if you lose the same amount of wort on a one gallon batch as you would a five gallon batch. Beersmith makes those conversions easy but you need to know what volume you lose on whatever your one gallon system is or will be versus a larger system.
Also, here are some one gallon recipes.