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For what it's worth, I've use mostly the ale yeasts that came with the kits in my first batches - I have an advantage in that the temp in my basement is a little high, but rock steady at 72F. They've come out fine, although I don't have a lot to compare them to yet. I'm putting the parts...

Mostly an issue of available equipment and storage space. A lot of the 5G kits and recipes use a <5G boil size - since I started the hobby thinking I'd stick with 1G recipes for a while, most of my equipment (brew pot, fermenters, carboys, bottleing buckets) are geared towards that. So as long...

Great, thanks! That's what I was figuring. Thanks also for the recommendations on the vendors...I had found Adventures in Homebrewing, but not the other one yet. They'll be pretty useful.

Thanks, both. Regarding the grains, one of the challenges with trying to create a 1G version of a 5G recipe is that it's tough to order just a few ounces of each grain you need. I did find that homebrewing.org lets you create a custom blend, so that may solve that problem. The idea of...

Relatively new home brewer here... I've been doing 1-gallon extract kits so far, with a reasonable amount of success. I'm starting to explore recipes and tweaks, and have a couple of questions. 1. If I have a recipe for a 5-gallon extract brew, is it generally as straight forward as...

Basically, it's a 1-gallon recipe that starts with a 1.25 gallon boil. End of 45 minutes, when I rack to the fermenter, I'm coming up noticeably short of 1 gallon, even though I think I'm leaving little to nothing other than the trub in the pot. I'll start pushing the starting volume a little...

Thanks all! I've got a pretty good supply of beer bottles (and I'm adding to it fairly steadily), but also have all the swing tops so wanted to make sure I wouldn't be hurting anything if I eventually put the cider in the clear ones for a while. Guess I'll pass on the Martinelli's bottles as...

Finished my first batch of cider recently, and since it seemed to work, I've got two more simple recipes working their way through 1st and 2nd fermentations now. Couple of questions for when I eventually rack to bottles. 1. I have a combination of swing top and recycled beer bottles - I'm...

Thanks. That's the direction I was leaning. Need to get a feel for how much I lose in the boil. If I'm using a kit that calls for 1.25 gallons to start the boil and I add another .25 gallons, I'm guessing that won't mess with the ingredient ratios that much. Much beyond that and I would...

Hello all - I've brewed a couple of one-gallon batches of cider and a couple of one-gallon batches of beer. While I've had a few challenges, the main one I'm focusing on now is volume loss to gravity testing and racking (e.g. avoiding the trub). With the cider, it's fairly straight...

Hello all! Just started home brewing this year, kind of on a whim as I thought "it can't be that hard to make my own hard cider" - and it's now just rolling from there. I'm doing 1-gallon kits at the moment Started with a hard cider kit a few months ago - decent results, although I wasn't...