Got a 1 gallon kit for Christmas

[Mister_Card]

My wife bought me a Brooklyn brew Beer making kit. As I have done plenty of partial mash recipes for 5 gallons I am looking forward to trying all grain out for the 1st time, even if it's on a small scale. But should I be worried with this kit. From what I understand she bought this at Bed Bath and Beyond, I just want to make sure I didn't get a piece of crap. Anyone ever use this?

 

[RandallFlag]

I have made several of their batches and they are great. Oatmeal Stout, Porter and a Wheat beer. Great for stove-top, small-scale all grain batches. You get to mash and sparge with little room for error since the scale is so small.

We love them at our house...but we love the 1 Gallon approach. Lots of fun for a quick brew day.

 

[Zekk]

I've used their one gallon kit using my equipment and it all worked perfectly. I don't know which recipe you have, but from what I've heard and experienced you might want to cut back the priming ingredient from what is called for. My kit used agave and I had several gushers, totally sucks when you only have 8 bottles.

 

[RandallFlag]

but from what I've heard and experienced you might want to cut back the priming ingredient from what is called for.

I've never used their priming sugar or recommendations myself. I just throw ye olde fizz drop in the bottle and fill 'er up. I've had no problems.

...I had several gushers

Bottle bombs would indeed suck with an 8 bottle yield.

 

[Mister_Card]

Good advice, I was also worried that I would not be able to experiment with this kit. My 5 gallon bucket is easier to add stuff too for a secondary fermentation. If I do fruit I'll just blend it down to a paste I guess.

 

[eadavis80]

If you do this kit with the BIAB method, I would recommend starting with at least 2.25 gallons. I did one of their IPA kits and started with 1.75 gallons and when the boil was done, we had like .75 gallon. It's fermenting now. We'll see how it goes. It was my buddy's kit, which was like a year old. I'm not expecting much given the age of the ingredients, but it was more about him learning the brewing and me experimenting with the BIAB method.

 

[Westermans]

5 Brooklyn brew batches done and one more fermenting now. Great way to play around with AG. Makes some great tasting beer too. I have three of there kits so I can always have some beer going with minimal space.

 

[RandallFlag]

5 Brooklyn brew batches done and one more fermenting now. Great way to play around with AG. Makes some great tasting beer too. I have three of there kits so I can always have some beer going with minimal space.

Couldn't agree more. ^^This post makes me happy.

I have 2 finishing fermentation and 2 in the bottle.