Brewing 3 gallons vs 5?

[bobbrews]

I don't find it that much of a hassle to multiply all the values by 0.6 to convert a recipe from 5 to 3 gallons.

It's a hassle when you have over a hundred recipes ready for conversion.

 

[Leithoa]

Depending on how your recipes are stored I can see how it would be inconvenient. Your average HBTer isn't going to be converting 100 recipes in one sitting though. They happen across a recipe and scale it to their equipment shortly before brewing. If you are constantly brewing and consuming 5-5.5G batches there's no motivation for you scale your recipes. The OP just wanted to see other peoples reasoning for small batches.
I imagine most brewing software allows you to scale however you see fit, using excel/open office allows you to setup spread sheets able to scale between volumes rather easily.

Designing a recipe from the grain up isn't any more difficult for 1 gallon than it is for 5. I'm sure there are some additional considerations once you get into multi-barrel production territory though.

 

[Monster Mash]

It's a hassle when you have over a hundred recipes ready for conversion.

You only brew one batch at a time so just convert them as you brew. I'm collecting all of the equipment to do 3 gallon batches and all of my recipes are for 25 gallons so I will just convert as I go.

I am getting tired of making 2 gallon starters for 25 gallons of beer just to dump it out to harvest the yeast. If I brew 3 gallon batches I can drink my starter!!

 

[bobbrews]

You only brew one batch at a time so just convert them as you brew.

Wish it was that easy. They're all stored on hopville. Hopville has many glitches, one of which does not let you edit old recipes. All of these recipes were good too. Some require minor tweaks, but I don't have time to revise each and every recipe and update the batch size/ingredients.