1 gallon brews

[rod734]

I use the Mr. Beer fermenter. Works great for small batches.

Me too, I got four Premium kits for the price of three with free shipping off Amazon. They come with bottles and a West Coast Pale Ale beer kit which is very good beer. I think I ended up with less than $25 per kit, I love the pet bottles, you can feel the pressure inside and know when to start sampleing them and don't have to worry about botle bombs.

 

[Justibone]

If you are brewing in a vessel without a lot of headspace, Fermcap-S is a necessity. No, I'm not flogging a product -- I'm just really, really happy I use the stuff. I've never had boilover or kreusen problems since I got it.

 

[bourgeoisbee]

just scored 8, 1 gallon jugs from my grandmas house ( love you nana) gunna start playin as soon as i get airlocks and stoppers.

ps what size stopper work well in 1 gallon jars?

6.5 size stoppers work well for 1 gallon wine jugs.

 

[KCBigDog]

6.5 size stoppers work well for 1 gallon wine jugs.

Hopefully a mini auto-siphon fits as well, or I'll be scrambling when I try to bottle my 1 gallon apfelwein batches.

 

[bourgeoisbee]

A 3/8" auto siphon will fit, but a 1/2" won't.

 

[hbx]

A #6 stopper works for putting an air lock on most gallon jugs.

We have a lot of customers who do 1 gallon fermentations. Most of them use a one gallon glass jug. The benefits of such a small batch are that you can experiment for very cheap, and you can do all-grain brewing with a regular kitchen soup pot. We developed a book, an equipment kit, and a bunch of all-grain recipe kits for this purpose:

1 gallon brewing equipment:
http://goo.gl/ZQVEf

All-grain ingredient kits:
http://goo.gl/cPm1Y