1-Gallon Brewers UNITE!

[UnderThePorchBrewing]

Northern Brewer has a great one gallon starter kit

great company just placed an order for 24 different small items from them. they missed one and sent an extra of another (Christmas rush) they replied immediately and had the missing item in the mail within a couple of hours.
am waiting for their Dead Ringer IPA 1Gallon batch to finish.

The kit I use is from small batch homebrew. I like 1.25 Gallon batches so I get a twelve pack, and their 2 gallon fermenter and bottling bucket work well.
I also use tap-a-draft bottles as fermenters as they are brown and protect from light.

austin homebrew supply also has a starter kit as well for 1 gallon batches

 

[divrguy]

great company just placed an order for 24 different small items from them. they missed one and sent an extra of another (Christmas rush) they replied immediately and had the missing item in the mail within a couple of hours.
am waiting for their Dead Ringer IPA 1Gallon batch to finish.

The kit I use is from small batch homebrew. I like 1.25 Gallon batches so I get a twelve pack, and their 2 gallon fermenter and bottling bucket work well.
I also use tap-a-draft bottles as fermenters as they are brown and protect from light.

austin homebrew supply also has a starter kit as well for 1 gallon batches

I always wonder about the tapa a draft system. Seems like a great idea for a small draft dispenser.

 

[cheesecake]

Massive trip to labs today to stock up before the weather turns.

I think tomorrow I'm going to do a variant of the cream of three crops cream ale.

Dme
Flaked corn
Rice hulls
Willamette
Yeast... Tbd

Thoughts?

Why not add the minute rice?

 

[divrguy]

Why not add the minute rice?

I believe he would be using rice hulls to create a grain bed. At least, that's what I think he needs it for.

 

[cheesecake]

I was asking about the minute rice because its a ingredient in the original recipe

 

[cheesecake]

Used the white house beer recipes I had ordered to get some one into homebrewing. Put together a starter kit for him with some of the extra stuff I have. And brewed a batch with him and explained the process with him.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

I started with a plastic 2 liter soda bottle, some ginger, sugar, yeast, and lemon juice. The gingerale was horrible, but it was the first thing I ever fermented.

i actually started with ginger ale, too.

it was good.

i should make some for the holidays

good idea, thanks

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Why not add the minute rice?

because i have every other kind of rice EXCEPT minute rice, including rice hulls, and i'm too lazy to mash just for that.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Used the white house beer recipes I had ordered to get some one into homebrewing. Put together a starter kit for him with some of the extra stuff I have. And brewed a batch with him and explained the process with him.

that's a cool thing to do... i've been inviting my sons to participate, and one does, but i think he's just humoring me, because he likes the beer

 

[divrguy]

I was asking about the minute rice because its a ingredient in the original recipe

Ahhhhh! Makes sense

 

[divrguy]

Hey guys, just had quite the score! BEVMO is selling their Brooklyn Brew shop kits half off right now. Their recipe books are $5 and the ingredient kits a $5 instead of 14.99. So I picked up a book and another bourbon dubbel. I don't know if its all stores but its a least northern Ca.

 

[dadshomebrewing]

i bought 4 months worth of supplies yesterday...

i could get snowed in for the whole winter, and still be happy.

 

[lumpy5oh]

I'm getting one of the starter kits from Small Batch Brewing. I have read good things about Northern's Caribou Slobber and was wondering if their 1gal kits would be ok with the equipment or if the fermenter too big.
I am going to start with the ingredients form SBB and then maybe try other kits.

 

[cheesecake]

They will work just fine

 

[dadshomebrewing]

I'm getting one of the starter kits from Small Batch Brewing. I have read good things about Northern's Caribou Slobber and was wondering if their 1gal kits would be ok with the equipment or if the fermenter too big.
I am going to start with the ingredients form SBB and then maybe try other kits.

go for it.

let us know how you are doing

 

[divrguy]

i bought 4 months worth of supplies yesterday...

i could get snowed in for the whole winter, and still be happy.

Awesome... I could go a couple months..I have base malt and a few pounds of specialty grains and 2 prepped kits ready to go ....

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Yeah... In Chicago we have to deal with stuff you like don't see much of in NorCal.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and moved to Chicago in February many years ago.

Oh boy, what a surprise.

 

[C-Rider]

Question! Are you guys using extract kits, partial mash, or doing all grain? I do 1.75 gallon batches so I'm pretty much in the same game as you guys, but I do AG and make up my own recipients.

 

[JollyIsTheRoger]

Question! Are you guys using extract kits, partial mash, or doing all grain? I do 1.75 gallon batches so I'm pretty much in the same game as you guys, but I do AG and make up my own recipients.

I'm doing all grain and make up my own stuff(with heavy influence from other sources)

 

[UnderThePorchBrewing]

Question! Are you guys using extract kits, partial mash, or doing all grain? I do 1.75 gallon batches so I'm pretty much in the same game as you guys, but I do AG and make up my own recipients.

doing all of the above. enjoyed all of the small batch brews so far.
some kits from online (extract) such as hop zombie, bisquits n' honey and dead ringer and made a few of my own from the clone brews book which I scaled down (noche beuno (PM), ***** modelo, and an extract sweet stout). have "kits" ready to brew that I made for Yards pale ale clone (PM) for 2.5G and several other 1.25G batches (AG, PM & extract)
also can't wait to order in the ingredients and try the smaiclause clone from clone brews for a 1.25G batch. Long 1 yr wait

 

[divrguy]

Question! Are you guys using extract kits, partial mash, or doing all grain? I do 1.75 gallon batches so I'm pretty much in the same game as you guys, but I do AG and make up my own recipients.

Mostly all grain.. But because its cheaper and easier for me to make all my different brews. If a kit goes on sale that I like at Morebeer and its an extract recipe or partial mash, i get it. their extract is super fresh and I can save a little time on it.

 

[divrguy]

Yeah... In Chicago we have to deal with stuff you like don't see much of in NorCal.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and moved to Chicago in February many years ago.

Oh boy, what a surprise.

I know what you mean ... Grew up in Boston and moved here after I got discharged. I don't miss the snow. Other than high rent, I like being near ocean and snow within 2-3 hours.... And LHBS within 45 minutes

 

[dadshomebrewing]

Question! Are you guys using extract kits, partial mash, or doing all grain? I do 1.75 gallon batches so I'm pretty much in the same game as you guys, but I do AG and make up my own recipients.

i have the gear for AG, and have done that, but i mostly do extract with grain.

a little bit of partial mash if i feel like doing something squirrelly, or making something i can't easily do with simple extract with steeping grains.

 

[bellmtbbq]

I had a pound and a quarter of grain left and wanted to ferment something, so I made a kind of English mild/bitter. Toasted some malt and mashed high so I could add some sugar and not be left with a thin body. Decided to add a half ounce of Horizon and two thirds of an oz. of EKG with thirty seconds left in boil to make a hoppy but not bitter beer. Hydrometer is broken so no SG but gotta guess its 1.025-1.030, 5L batch. It was a nice rainy day and was listening to bluegrass, so named it Bluegrass Mild.


You guys should try making different session beers, fun to experiment in one gallon batches

 

[C-Rider]

I just brewed yesterday a "German" IPA using unfortunately domestic Munich Malt and imported German Magnum and Perle hops and K-97 German Ale yeast.

I have two recipes listed under my Avatar that have proven to be very good and brewed a number of times each.

 

[divrguy]

Bottled up the first bourbon dubbel. I threw in a tad of simcoe and Citra during the last few minutes and wow I like the taste of this so far. It is very different and packs a punch. Got 9 bottles.

 

[user 83772]

Been away from the thread for awhile, but I just have a quick question for y'all. It's just about bottling time for my first brew (the stout I posted about a few weeks back) and I'd like to take the usual three hydrometer readings before actually bottling, but I'm not sure how to go about it.

I ended up with a tad less than a gallon in the fermentor, so I'm really, really not looking forward to pulling and subsequently discarding three full sample vials of beer for these tests. How many of y'all pull samples at testing time and then return 'em to the rest of the beer when you're done? I'd like to think that I'm one of the more diligent ones when it comes to sanitation, but if it's really a bad idea I suppose I'll just have to suck it up and deal with less finished product this time around.

 

[Calichusetts]

I can't speak for everyone on here but taking a hydrometer reading...let alone three, is really going to eat up your batch. You could try to carefully return it to the batch to bottle or bottle one beer with the sample but I just do a refractometer and use the online calculators to adjust...if at all.

 

[user 83772]

@Calichussets: That's my point. I want to make sure it's done fermenting, but all I have is a hydrometer to test with. I will be looking into getting a refractometer, but right now it's not in the budget until after the holidays. What I'm wondering is the best way to go about it from here on out. I'd like to get at least one sample, just so I can see where my gravity ended up. This is my first batch, and there were issues at the start with my efficiency, so going without a reading at all seems a bit unwise.

So given that all I have is a hydrometer, what would you suggest my best plan of action to be?

 

[BigRock947]

I used to take that many hydrometer readings and returned the sample back to the fermenter. I never thought it was a big deal until seeing information from home brew websites. With that in mind, I never really had any issues with returning the sample.

Now, I really don't bother taking that many readings...I take a reading in the brew kettle and the next one, the day I plan to bottle. I usually wait 5 weeks before bottling...just my way.

EDIT: Oops you asked another question before I was done typing.