I plan on making 5 seperate smash recipes with 2row and 5 different hops and ferment them in 1 gal glass jugs. I am a little confused about how to do it though. Should I just mash a 5gal batch of 2row in my cooler and then split them up 5 ways before the boil and boil them all seperately? Im not sure how the evaporation rate would change and the hop utilization? Help me out. Thanks.
help on making 1gal SMASH batches
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NorCalAngler
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That's pretty much the only way you can do it since it is necessary to boil each batch individually for hop additions.
ReverseApacheMaster
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Yeah, you can do one mash but with five separate boils. If you scale down 5:1 then everything should come out correctly.
denimglen
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That's a bit of a bastard though - obviously will equal at least 5 hours of boiling plus cooling time etc.
If you're not so much interested in the bittering characteristics of the hops and don't mind cheating a bit you could do a full size batch boil for say 45 minutes with a neutral bittering hop. Then split it into 1 gal lots and just do a 15 minutes boil with additions at like 15/5/0/dry or whatever.
If you're not so much interested in the bittering characteristics of the hops and don't mind cheating a bit you could do a full size batch boil for say 45 minutes with a neutral bittering hop. Then split it into 1 gal lots and just do a 15 minutes boil with additions at like 15/5/0/dry or whatever.
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