1-Gallon Brewers UNITE!

[BigRock947]

With my experience racking my 1 gallon batch of beer last night and others mentioning auto siphons, I decided a search for mini auto siphons. Now, I know a couple of online HBS have smaller versions of auto siphons in stock but I wanted to pass along this link for FlyGuy's T-siphon. I thought is was very clever and it should work no matter how much beer a person needs to rack. Anyway...

https://www.homebrewtalk.com/f11/flyguys-t-siphon-3-replacement-autosiphon-25774/

I'm going to make one this weekend and try it out.

 

[C-Rider]

I have beer smith and that's what i have been doing for larger batches. I just want to be lazy and just brew beer with no work to make the recipe

I guess everyone has the right to be lazy once in a while. :rockin: Enjoy your brews.

 

[cheesecake]

I guess everyone has the right to be lazy once in a while. :rockin: Enjoy your brews.

So my plan backfired. I ordered that stuff last night and today I ran to the brew store and picked up some ingredients for some of my current recipes and 4 more fermenters with airlocks and stoppers.

I'm also doing some smash recipes to get my beer smith dialed in for these smaller biab recipes. Picked up some different hops also to compare hop profiles

 

[LabRatBrewer]

Can't see how you get such a low efficiency. Try getting a pain strainer bag and using it in your 2 gallon cooler w/o the braided tube. When the mash is done lift the bag, put a collendar ontop of the cooler and put the bag in it. The using a coffee cup in each had press down as hard as you can until there is no more liquid left in the grain. That should help. It's what I do w/my 1.75 gallon batches and i get at least 75% efficiency sometime 82%.

I'd consider using a metal lid to a pot instead of the coffee mugs for the pressing of the grains. I'd hate to break one in my hand.

 

[menerdari]

The way I see it is it takes 4 weeks to make, but only 3 days to drink. In my eyes it not worth it.

You can brew more than 1 batch in that 4 weeks

 

[cheesecake]

well im brewing my first one gallon batch....a citra SMaSH trying to get photos so far everything is going smooth i just mashed in about 10 minutes ago

 

[bleme]

The way I see it is it takes 4 weeks to make, but only 3 days to drink. In my eyes it not worth it.

That just means you can brew every 3 days to keep the pipeline going. In 4 weeks you will have a variety of 10 different beers instead of just 1 or 2!!!

 

[Revvy]

The way I see it is it takes 4 weeks to make, but only 3 days to drink. In my eyes it not worth it.

Well bully freaking good for you.....

I don't recall this thread being a "give me your opinion on 1 gallon batch thread." It's for people who ACTUALLY do it. And SUPPORT each other in doing so.

No one really gives a flying frig about your opinion on the matter. ....Who really cares how you "see" it. We don't even know who the **** you are. Go piss in your own sandbox.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

The way I see it is it takes 4 weeks to make, but only 3 days to drink. In my eyes it not worth it.

I brew a batch every week, and since I don't get to have a beer every day it comes out about right.

And I don't waste any, and I get a nice variety.

Different strokes I guess

 

[UnderThePorchBrewing]

so who sells the best 1 gallon starter kit

http://www.smallbatchhomebrew.com/Beer-Making-Kits_c_13.html

great kit can brew 1 to 1.5 gallons. can also just get the fermentor and bottling bucket separate
have the hop zombie ingredient kit going right now
making a ***** modelo clone from clone brews scaled down this weekend and then a dead ringer kit from NB next week. I usually try to do 1.25 gallons so I at least get a 12 pack
seems to work well for me

asked for their "4 pack of brews" for Christmas

 

[menerdari]

http://www.smallbatchhomebrew.com/Beer-Making-Kits_c_13.html

great kit can brew 1 to 1.5 gallons
have the hop zombie ingredient kit going right now
making a ***** modelo clone this weekend and then a dead ringer kit from NB next week. I usually try to do 1.25 gallons so I at least get a 12 pack
seems to work well for me

Nice link, just what I was looking for, a nice selection of 1 gallon recipe kits and reasonable shipping cost too. Thanks.

 

[GatorBru]

Big fan of 2.5 gallon batches. The 3gal better bottles are my fermenter of choice. Square shape is convenient too.

 

[Yesfan]

http://www.smallbatchhomebrew.com/Beer-Making-Kits_c_13.html

great kit can brew 1 to 1.5 gallons. can also just get the fermentor and bottling bucket separate
have the hop zombie ingredient kit going right now
making a ***** modelo clone from clone brews scaled down this weekend and then a dead ringer kit from NB next week. I usually try to do 1.25 gallons so I at least get a 12 pack
seems to work well for me

asked for their "4 pack of brews" for Christmas

Do you mind posting a link to the ***** Modelo clone or the scaled down recipe here?

Is the clone pretty close to the original? ***** is one of my favorite Mexi-beers if not my favorite.

 

[cheesecake]

once i get all my recipes scaled down i will try to post some if anyone is interested .

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Well bully freaking good for you.....

I don't recall this thread being a "give me your opinion on 1 gallon batch thread." It's for people who ACTUALLY do it. And SUPPORT each other in doing so.

No one really gives a flying frig about your opinion on the matter. ....Who really cares how you "see" it. We don't even know who the **** you are. Go piss in your own sandbox.

I issued a temporary ban to Revvy for the above comments. While MrGrumpy's post wasn't exactly supportive or positive, and the conversation didn't necessarily benefit from his opinion, it wasn't outright rude - simply a member voicing an opinion. Forums are about sharing ideas and opinions, not crushing them. Carry on...nicely.

 

[wmarkw]

once i get all my recipes scaled down i will try to post some if anyone is interested .

Please do! Thanks.

 

[UnderThePorchBrewing]

Do you mind posting a link to the ***** Modelo clone or the scaled down recipe here?

Is the clone pretty close to the original? ***** is one of my favorite Mexi-beers if not my favorite.

once i get all my recipes scaled down i will try to post some if anyone is interested .

have not made it yet it is from the clone brews book.
am away today thru sunday at my daughters college parents weekend will try to type in and post it from my iphone. once home will also try to post several i scaled down as well

 

[jwalk4]

I'm seeing a lot of recipe scaling questions in the past few pages, and I know that people have already mentioned the advantages of brewing software, but seriously, having good brewing software solves so many of these problems. Maybe it would help if people would posting the software they use, a link, and maybe the cost?

I use Brewmate, its a free download, and its right here: http://www.brewmate.net/

I scale the recipes, then just round off or adjust the useless decimal places til I'm back in the OG range, and am ordering grains in a nice round number so my LHBS doesn't get exasperated.

 

[Bootlegger_Brewery]

I'd like to know how much liquid yeast to use in 4.25L with let's say regular OG around 1,060. Mr.malty tells me 0.5 packs of vial. That seems to be way too much seeing as I use 1 pack (either wyeast or white labs) for 23L and always had enough even at a 1,090 OG. I bought a California Ale (whitelabs) for a 1,060 OG ill be brewing sunday or monday... I'll seperate the quantity I need when its still cold (less risk of contamination..) So, how much ml should I use? I was gonna go with 1/4 of the pack wich is about 9 ml...

I brewed my first 4.25L batch 2 weeks ago... I used dried yeast (s-o5) mrmalty said 4g and it seems perfect.

I will be brewing again sunday or monday, but will be getting a 2g cooler by then. Mashing on the stove is not stable at all! I'll be posting pics in the next few weeks when I've got my low budget set-up all in place how I like it.

 

[BigRock947]

I'm seeing a lot of recipe scaling questions in the past few pages, and I know that people have already mentioned the advantages of brewing software, but seriously, having good brewing software solves so many of these problems. Maybe it would help if people would posting the software they use, a link, and maybe the cost?

I use Brewmate, its a free download, and its right here: http://www.brewmate.net/

I scale the recipes, then just round off or adjust the useless decimal places til I'm back in the OG range, and am ordering grains in a nice round number so my LHBS doesn't get exasperated.

I agree. A good brewing software can make life easier. I use Promash, I bought it years ago before I was aware of any other systems. It work well for what I like to do. I can scale recipes, it tells me my mash volume, strike water temps and lastly the amount of total water I will need. I mostly take notes in a brew log but I do use Promash as a tool.

 

[cheesecake]

I'm using beersmith to scale my recipes.


I woke up this morning to some very active fermentation.

Citra hops for a citra SMaSH

 

[cheesecake]

I'm thinking about adding a heating element with pid and ssr to the pot and insulating it so I have better mash control with temp. I did hit my Target gravity yesterday and the brewday took about 3 hours

 

[UnderThePorchBrewing]

I'm thinking about adding a heating element with pid and ssr to the pot and insulating it so I have better mash control with temp. I did hit my Target gravity yesterday and the brewday took about 3 hours

have a cheap 4 gallon pot from a 35$ set from harbor freight, a 1500 watt 110v element from our local ace insulated the pot with foiled adhesive insulation from lowes and just plug it in to heat/boil no pid etc works really well

use ibrewmaster
and sometimes prewpal
usually 3 hrs start to finish including cleanup a little more (not more than 30 min)for all grain

 

[cheesecake]

I was thinking about doing that but I really like the control with the PID I can set a mash temp and it will hold it with no worries. I guess ill have to think about what I'm going to do.

 

[BigRock947]

I will be brewing again sunday or monday, but will be getting a 2g cooler by then. Mashing on the stove is not stable at all! I'll be posting pics in the next few weeks when I've got my low budget set-up all in place how I like it.

I may go this route as well. When I do 2.5 gallon batches, the 3 gallons of mash water and 5 lbs of grain would keep a steady temperature. I'm having trouble maintain mash temps with just 1.5 gallons of water and 2 lbs of grain. My last batch, I lost 8 degrees even though I put around insulation my mash pot.

 

[gwdraper4]

http://www.smallbatchhomebrew.com/Beer-Making-Kits_c_13.html

great kit can brew 1 to 1.5 gallons. can also just get the fermentor and bottling bucket separate
have the hop zombie ingredient kit going right now
making a ***** modelo clone from clone brews scaled down this weekend and then a dead ringer kit from NB next week. I usually try to do 1.25 gallons so I at least get a 12 pack
seems to work well for me

asked for their "4 pack of brews" for Christmas

Thanks very much UnderThePorchBrewing...you rock my man!

 

[gwdraper4]

Nice link, just what I was looking for, a nice selection of 1 gallon recipe kits and reasonable shipping cost too. Thanks.

Hey menerdari, let me know if you have any questions and we can get you hooked up brewing some tasty small batches! Cheers!

 

[jwalk4]

I may go this route as well. When I do 2.5 gallon batches, the 3 gallons of mash water and 5 lbs of grain would keep a steady temperature. I'm having trouble maintain mash temps with just 1.5 gallons of water and 2 lbs of grain. My last batch, I lost 8 degrees even though I put around insulation my mash pot.

Have you guys tried maintaining your mash temps in the oven? I've heard of people having success with setting their ovens to 150-155F and throwing the brewpot in there for an hour or so.

 

[MTate37]

Bottled my BBS Cranberry Wheat today. I was a little short of a gallon on brew day, so I only got eight bottles. The sample had a nice tartness to it, but the flavor is closer to grapefruit than cranberry. Maybe some conditioning and carbonation will bring out the cranberry.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

once i get all my recipes scaled down i will try to post some if anyone is interested .

Yes, please