1 gallon pros/cons?

[violinguy]

In light of pizzagate i find your sig very interesting care to explain it?

The joke is that musicians only make money from delivering pizza

 

[dhop]

I'm in a similar boat to the 1 gallon brewers here due to small apartment constraints. One thing I would like to add is to get a more precise scale than the typical kitchenware (usually repeatable to 1 g/ 0.04 oz). With 1 gallon batches, your typical hop additions are on the order of 0.15-0.75 oz, and thus your "error" in your measured hop addition can be as high as 25%. This decreases with larger batches, so people doing 2.5 and 5 gallon batches have much lower errors. This becomes very important when you are crafting your own recipes and scaling them down. I've had some major over/under bitterness levels especially with higher AA hops.

You can get precisions of .01 g on Amazon for fairly cheap (~$8) and will make a large improvement in your consistency between batches (the precision of the scale) and recreating other's recipes (the accuracy of the scale - this requires a calibration weight).

 

[seabrew8]

The joke is that musicians only make money from delivering pizza

I see! Thanks, i always wanted to learn the violin. Piano would be first however. I'm a guitar player.

 

[Leezer]

1) With the decision pretty much made, I have a couple extra questions:
I've only done extract brewing. BIAB sounds fun, and I'll probably try it after a few extract batches. The search function has been good, but I wanted to ask - is there any "must read" thread or video I should watch that is a great resource for small batch BIAB?

I don't know if there is anything specifically for small batch BIAB, but as a 2G BIAB brewer I found the "BIAB Brewing (with pics)" thread on here to be very helpful. Unlike in that thread I brew on my stovetop with a 4G pot, but the techniques are still helpful. I also found a lot on youtube. Again, even though I could only find 5G videos, they were still useful.