Shy 1 Gallon Carboy / Carbonation Tabs

[InsertMoreHops]

Hello everyone,

I am currently fermenting a 1 gallon (all grain) homebrew. Upon pouring in my wort, I was about an inch shy of the ONE GALLON marker on the carboy. I could have topped it off with water, but I decided to let it be and not dilute it.

The recipe calls for carbonation tabs/drops at bottling. Now, since my wort was shy, will this have any effect on the carb tabs? Or are the carbonation tabs basically the easy no brainer way out and I shouldn't think twice? I am too new to confidently measure out a priming solution for what I have.

Thanks for any feedback.

 

[WI_Wino]

Nope. You put one carb tab in per bottle. The only thing that matters is filling the bottle full. If your last bottle is not quite full, you can either cap it and deal with a not quite perfectly carbonated beer. Or do what I do and drink it warm and flat.

 

[Sharkbrewingco]

I would just go with the carb drops at this time. You will probably only fill about 7 bottles. You will learn how much more wort you need to make in order to fill up to the 1 gallon mark. If you have any left over you can do what WI Wino does (we all do it) or fill it up with water and mark it "biological experiment".

 

[InsertMoreHops]

Thanks guys. I figured I'd be ok, but just had to ask.

 

[bernardsmith]

Hello everyone,

I am currently fermenting a 1 gallon (all grain) homebrew. Upon pouring in my wort, I was about an inch shy of the ONE GALLON marker on the carboy. I could have topped it off with water, but I decided to let it be and not dilute it.

The recipe calls for carbonation tabs/drops at bottling. Now, since my wort was shy, will this have any effect on the carb tabs? Or are the carbonation tabs basically the easy no brainer way out and I shouldn't think twice? I am too new to confidently measure out a priming solution for what I have.

Thanks for any feedback.

I may be mistaken but I suspect that by the time it comes to bottle your gallon you will have about an inch of trub (from the dead yeast and particles of malt that have dropped out of suspension. If you are working from a kit , you are working from a kit, but if you are working from a recipe I would ferment in a 2 gallon bucket and increase your grain bill by a few ounces and your wort by a pint or two. In other words, to bottle one gallon you need to make about 1.12 gallons

 

[solbes]

Just want to clarify one thing. Did you pour almost an entire gallon of wort into a 1 gallon carboy (jug) and then pitch yeast? If so you do not have near enough headspace in your fermenter. Yeast and beer will be coming out of your airlock in no time, so be prepared with a blow off tube setup.

I apologize if I am reading this wrong and you are using something bigger than a 1 gallon carboy, or if it has already gone through primary fermentation and you racked into this 1 gallon vessel as a secondary. Then no issues at all. Carb drops work no matter how much wort/beer you have. As others have stated the carb drops depend on how full your bottles are (with headspace created by bottling wand filler).

 

[InsertMoreHops]

Just want to clarify one thing. Did you pour almost an entire gallon of wort into a 1 gallon carboy (jug) and then pitch yeast? If so you do not have near enough headspace in your fermenter. Yeast and beer will be coming out of your airlock in no time, so be prepared with a blow off tube setup.

I apologize if I am reading this wrong and you are using something bigger than a 1 gallon carboy, or if it has already gone through primary fermentation and you racked into this 1 gallon vessel as a secondary. Then no issues at all. Carb drops work no matter how much wort/beer you have. As others have stated the carb drops depend on how full your bottles are (with headspace created by bottling wand filler).

I was under the impression that the ONE GALLON letters on the carboy was the 1 gallon point (maybe im wrong) and that i lost a lot of liquid in the previous steps. The wort is under the letters. I had no issues with blowout.

 

[solbes]

No issues, no worries