ohiobeer29
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Looks like an interesting brew definitely interested to see how it turns out
Looks like an interesting brew definitely interested to see how it turns out
Thanks for everyone's help. Since my son was born, my brew days have been less, but, I hopped on this thread, and am back in action via one gallon AG!
I ended up buying a two gallon cooler for a mash tun.....put my grain in a bag for ease of clean up..... Brew day was fun, quick, and easy clean up!
I'm only on my second batch and had a lot of loss through the blow tube. I'm using the one gallon jug that come with the kits. This one is a porter and I ended up with about 3/4 of a gallon of wort after the boil.
You can use Fermcap in the fermenter to control blowoffs
How do you 1 gallon brewers take hydrometer readings without wasting a significant part of your batch?
I'm considering buying a few of the brooklyn brew shop kits and brewing them here and there for the heck of it. Anyone brew these regularly and have any suggestions on which to do? Also, I don't want to dedicate a cooler for a mash tun since I won't be doing 1 gallons too often (not much space) but I have read mashing in a pot and putting it in the oven to hold the temperature.. does that work pretty well?
Cool thread. I'd love to say I've read it all but its 578 pages...
Anyway, I've got everything to do my first 1 gallon batches. Doing one cider, very simple stuff. Just apple juice and Nottingham yeast. Also doing a full grain batch of peanut butter porter from Brooklyn Brew Shop. I've got 2 gal buckets for primary and gallon jugs for secondary so I can get some more batches going in primary. Should be able to keep up a nice assembly line of different brews. Kettle to bucket to jug to bottle, wash rinse repeat.
Good weekend coming up
Just to let everyone know someone did just start a small batch brewing Facebook group and they are trying to grow the group. The group is: small batch home brewers hope to see some of you join the group.
What do you all do for bottling? Still use a bottling bucket, or is it reasonable to hook up my auto siphon to a bottling wand? Read through the thread a little and saw some mixed opinions.
2 gallon bucket primary with spigot. Bottle right out of there.
5-10gal brewer here, bought a BBS kit on clearance sale at Bed Bath and Beyond, figured for the low low price of $15 it was worth it just for the equipment. It was quite fun actually, I have already scaled down some recipes I have wanted to try but didn't want 2.5/5/10 gallons to drink.
I can brew on a week day now: Come home for lunch, heat water, mash in, place in 150deg oven. Get home from work finish the sparge and boil while cooking dinner. Chill in ice bath while eating dinner.
I'm still having issues with my small batch setup for bottling. I tried the regular autosiphon and have not been able to do it without significant oxygenation. How do you guys use your autosiphon, to a bottling bucket, or straight to a bottle wand?
5-10gal brewer here, bought a BBS kit on clearance sale at Bed Bath and Beyond, figured for the low low price of $15 it was worth it just for the equipment. It was quite fun actually, I have already scaled down some recipes I have wanted to try but didn't want 2.5/5/10 gallons to drink.
I can brew on a week day now: Come home for lunch, heat water, mash in, place in 150deg oven. Get home from work finish the sparge and boil while cooking dinner. Chill in ice bath while eating dinner.
Just to let everyone know someone did just start a small batch brewing Facebook group and they are trying to grow the group. The group is: small batch home brewers hope to see some of you join the group.
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