One gallon yeast question

[Iceman6409]

Hello all. Quick questions for yous. I am going to try a 1 gallon recipe just for fun. My questions is do I use the whole yeast packet or does it need to be weighed out?

 

[gotbags-10]

Typical gravity beers won't need a whole pack. If you use a yeast calculator it will tell you how many grams you need.

 

[gotbags-10]

For instance just checked on mr malty. I.25g of 1.060 OG uses 3 grams out of the 11.5 yeast pack

 

[MadHomebrewer]

I just use half a package of dry yeast for all my one gallon batches.

 

[Iceman6409]

Madbrewer what is your usual wort pre-boil target?

 

[MadHomebrewer]

I haven't been taking pre boil gravity measures, but probably will start. I've been brewing for a year with one gallon extract batches and have moved recently to all grain one gallon batches. But in my experience, so far, I have not had an issue with half a package of US05 and Nottingham.

 

[ricshayne]

http://www.mrmalty.com/calc/calc.html