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[30Bones]

A simple SMaSH would be nice. Pale or Maris Otter malt. Golden Promise if you can get some.

 

[deeringbrewing]

A little home malt tester. Just before bottling. Pale malt with a bit of home crystal. This is my first attemp at malting. I've been trying a few different farmers malt out. Some good som not so.

 

[markb91]

Anyone have a good citra ipa recipe for a one gallon batch?

Look up the zombie dust clone recipe on here. It is a recipe for 5 gallons but is easily scaled. It's all citra and turns out great! Both recipe for extract and mash. I went the mash route and nailed it right on the head.

 

[jakis]

Awesome! I will make the all grain! So I just divide all ingredients by 5?

 

[Ash1616]

Hey Jakis, I used a recipe from BBS for a single hop Citra IPA.

Here are the details:

816g English Pale Malt
181g Caramel 20
90g Victory Malt

Mash at 144-152 for 60 mins

14grams of Citra split into sixths. Add hops at 60, 45, 30, 15, 5 and FO.

Ferment with Safale S-05

Mine turned out amazing and the lone bottle I gave away for a friend to taste came back with amazing reviews and a demand to make more.

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[markb91]

Anyone have a good citra ipa recipe for a one gallon batch?

Yup, just divide by 5 for 1 gallon.

 

[markb91]

Hey Jakis, I used a recipe from BBS for a single hop Citra IPA.

Here are the details:

816g English Pale Malt
181g Caramel 20
90g Victory Malt

Mash at 144-152 for 60 mins

14grams of Citra split into sixths. Add hops at 60, 45, 30, 15, 5 and FO.

Ferment with Safale S-05

Mine turned out amazing and the lone bottle I gave away for a friend to taste came back with amazing reviews and a demand to make more.

That is a massive head...what did you use for bottling?

 

[Ash1616]

That is a massive head...what did you use for bottling?

I still use honey for priming, most of BBS recipes use it.

If you're referring to my method of getting the beer into the bottles just a racking cane and tubing with a clamp.

 

[markb91]

I still use honey for priming, most of BBS recipes use it.

If you're referring to my method of getting the beer into the bottles just a racking cane and tubing with a clamp.

I haven't messed with honey at all. It looks great. Maybe I'll give it a whirl

 

[Ash1616]

I haven't messed with honey at all. It looks great. Maybe I'll give it a whirl

BBS recipes always call for 3 tbls of honey for a One Gallon batch but I got a few gushers so I scaled back to 2 1/2 tbls. No problems since!!!

 

[sumbrewindude]

Love the color on that beer, DeeringBrewing! Home malt also, that's impressive!

Finally working on getting the pipeline going again!

ESB (Hornet) is in the keg and conditioning, Mild08 (Marches) is just about ready for the kreusen to drop, and I picked up the grains/yeast for the Winter Warmer and ANOTHER MILD (RedHen).

That'll hopefully fill some kegs for the Holiday season!

 

[Zekk]

BBS recipes always call for 3 tbls of honey for a One Gallon batch but I got a few gushers so I scaled back to 2 1/2 tbls. No problems since!!!

I made a recipe of theirs and it called for agave for priming. All but one gushed, the one that didn't had the top break off when I tried to open it. Definitely scale back on priming.

 

[deeringbrewing]

Thanks sumbrewendude. What are you guys using for corn priming sugar for say a 500mill bottle? I put 3.3 grams/500 bottle in the above batch.
Another week I will find out.

 

[ohiobeer29]

BBS recipes always call for 3 tbls of honey for a One Gallon batch but I got a few gushers so I scaled back to 2 1/2 tbls. No problems since!!!

Ah ha I see

 

[sumbrewindude]

Deeringbrewing - 500ml bottles are about our 16oz bottles I think?

I do have a few 16oz bottles but I usually fill them from the keg (pre-carbed). I will bottle condition in the 12oz (375ml) and 22.5oz (675ml?) bombers, and for those I use regular while table sugar - specifically the Domino's Sugar Cubes in the yellow box. One cube to a 12oz, two cubes to a bomber, and carbonation has been perfect each time at right about 2.3ppm.

I used dextrose/corn sugar to bottle initially, but I didn't see a huge difference between it and table sugar other than I already had table sugar and I had to buy dextrose. So when I ran out of dextrose, I switched.

I'm not really sure how it'd work with the 500ml bottles...


In other news, I finally have a small krausen on my Winter Warmer, only took 2 days to show up - had me worried. I thought I might have under pitched it, so I ran the numbers and I WAY underpitched. Was going to get some more yeast (3787), but remembered I had a full package of Fermentis Abbaye in the freezer - I was kind of meh on the thought of mixing the yeasts, but I had it and the LHBS was closed when I got off work.

Sooooooo happy to see that thin creamy krausen and the airlock perking up... hopefully by morning she'll be raging away.

Go yeasties, GO GO GO!

 

[deeringbrewing]

Cool thanks for the helpSBD.

 

[sumbrewindude]

No problem Deeringbrewing! Hope I was at least a little helpful!

Update on the Winterwarmer -

Any worries I had about underpitching/poor airation/no activity are gone. This yeast (Trappist HG) is out of control. I put a 3gal batch into a 5.5gal fermenter, and the kruesen is now up to the airlock. I've never had to rig up a blow off, thinking that having at least half the wort volume available for kruesen was enough. I've rigged up a blow off - I don't want to mop a popcorn ceiling.

Smell is amazing. I need to get some cherries.... why do I not have a Belgian on tap at all times?

 

[Metal_Militia]

Hey guys. Just got my first 1 gallon brew kit the other day! Done a lot of reading on here in the past, but excited to actually brew something! Just got a basic 1 gallon kit with a pale ale kit. Was considering using different ingredients than what's in it, but maybe I should just keep it simple?
Right now just have an electric stovetop that isn't exactly the greatest for heating large amounts of liquid well.. was considering maybe doing it on an old grill? (Would that work??)

what a long ass thread! Don't even know where to start

 

[sumbrewindude]

Welcome Metal Militia!

It IS a long ass thread - but it's only because it contains so much awesome info (and some great recipes too) that pertains to all the different facets of small batch brewing. Take your time, split it up, but it IS a great read.

Where to start? Ask questions like you're doing now!

I'd recommend keeping the pale ale kit as it is - but if you feel like you want to spice it up a little, maybe consider changing out the hops or yeast. What kit did you get? What was included in the package? Do you have the directions? If you got a pale ale kit, I'll guess that you like hoppy beers. Do you have a favorite beer you enjoy to drink?

For a 1gal brew, you'll be boiling about 2gal of liquid (more or less). Most standard coil top stoves can boil 2gal of liquid so you should be fine. A grill would NOT be the best way, as the burners are too far away from the pot, and the flame pattern really isn't centered. A turkey frier burner would be way overkill for a gallon batch. I vote use the stove.

Welcome to the fun!

:rockin:

 

[Metal_Militia]

Yo Dude thanks for the reply.

It was a gift from my bro, 'black series' 1 gallon brew kit, from 'shift3' just generic ingredients - row + crystal malt, 'hops' haha and yeast, no specifics.

You do have a good point about the amount of liquid. I cook, and cook pasta, etc, takes a while but no real problems.

I drink a lot of diff. beer, just never had the $/place to do it. Drinking a really good Deviant Dale's IPA (oskar blues) right now.
Turns out I have 2 6+ qt copper bottomed pots kicking around too so thats convenient. Need bottles etc that should be about it. cant wait!

 

[revhewett]

I just started brewing. My wife got me a one gallon starter kit and I started my first batch on Christmas day when I got it. So far, I love the outlook of the one gallon brewer. My brother in law brews quite often. Big, small, medium. He's an awesome brewer and can change anything on a dime. From his perspective, he has more fun doing small gallon brews. He's given me advice on tons of things. One thing was something he loves doing. He said one of his favorite things is to brew a 5 gallon batch and then split it up current ways (citrus in one, raspberries in another, etc.) My goal, currently, is to keep brewing recipe kits on a one week rotation while getting good at this stuff. My wife made this possible when I mentioned it by ordering 3 more fermentors. So, soon enough, I should have a good rotation of constantly brewing, fermenting, bottling, and drinking. The greatest part??? I get to have many different flavors on hand, and if I screw it up, I throw away one gallon, not five.

 

[jwaltlayne]

Almost 20 years ago I received Mr. Beer as a gift. I brewed through their then very limited catalog and grew bored with the if you can boil you can call yourself a brewer approach. I gave the kit to a guy who to my knowledge never did a thing with it.

I've crossed a lot of bridges since then and rafted the waters underneath. Traveled and written and been published and all that mess, but nothing satisfies like doing things myself and my adorable wife bought me a Brooklyn Brew Shop IPA kit for Christmas... I want to do their partial and all grain kits, but I also want to learn to do my own recipes.

Small batches are all we have room for in our two bedroom apartment with a two butt kitchen. Instead of bottling into singles I'm bottling into 1/2 gallon growlers. Over the last few years I've made mead, cured bacon, cured corned beef, made pastrami and sausages. My farmhouse cheddar cheese is preferred by my kids to Cabot Seriously Sharp... I want to really learn brewing in the same way. I'm glad this forum is here, I am sure there will be a tin of questions the second I open the box and get ready to brew.

 

[gromitdj]

Instead of bottling into singles I'm bottling into 1/2 gallon growlers.

There is some debate out there regarding the ability of growlers to stand up to the pressures of bottle conditioning. I'm not saying that it can't (or shouldn't be) done. Just want to give you a heads up. You should do a fair amount of research and decide if it is still something you want to do.

 

[30Bones]

Very odd. I am already out of (well one bomber left) from my 2 - ~2 gallon brews. I bottled a combination of 12 and 22oz bottles with one being a 32oz. I popped the 32oz on Christmas and it was a geyser of carbonation.

 

[Beersnob16]

I've never had any problems carbing in swing top bottles. I used the 16.9 Oz grolsh bottles for 5 gallon batches with absolutely no issues.

 

[Avocado_Power]

Wanted to second gromitdj's heads up. I've had success with regular bottles and bomber-sized ones. The only bottle bomb I've ever had is with a 32-oz growler. So do your research first - as it may not be as simple as just scaling up the sugar. And welcome to all the new Brewers! 2-butt kitchens practically mandate 1-gallon brewing.

 

[30Bones]

I use priming sugar that I mix into the beer before bottling like someone would on a "normal" sized batch so all should be the same no matter the bottle size. ASSuME

 

[SurfChris]

With the BBS 1g kit I have, I want to do BIAB instead. Basically do you just ignore the kit and instructions and just go BIAB route as if you had bought all the grains etc separate at a LHBS or online?

 

[ericbw]

With the BBS 1g kit I have, I want to do BIAB instead. Basically do you just ignore the kit and instructions and just go BIAB route as if you had bought all the grains etc separate at a LHBS or online?

Pretty much. Add all your water at the beginning. Or heat the sparge in another pot and dunk sparge.

 

[markb91]

After 4 days in my primary fermenter, my krausen has completely disappeared. My batch is starting to settle and I have a consistent temp of 64°. This is my first time having this problem. Thoughts?