What are you drinking now?

[TwistedGray]

Takes just as long to brew 5 gallons....just sayin....

But twice as long to drink and five times longer if I do a gallon brew

 

[lawdawg]

I am rocking a lot of 2.5s with my spare time.

Spare time?? I'm looking forward to that !!

 

[fourfarthing]

1 gallons are good, but I often time overshoot my volumes intentionally and not.

My new idea is to brew 1 gallons for fun as samples/starters for my 2.5s. I call it uber-nano brewing.

 

[fourfarthing]

1 gallons are good, but I often time overshoot my volumes intentionally and not.

Bottling 1 gallon at a time sucks....

 

[Dland]

A shot of my wife's hendrix gin.

 

[lawdawg]

I dying to have a Sea Hag because of Remmy.

Me too!

 

[TwistedGray]

Bottling 1 gallon at a time sucks....

Yeah, but if you stagger accordingly it's not too bad.

 

[lawdawg]

But twice as long to drink and five times longer if I do a gallon brew

Huh? A brew day is a brew day no matter how many gallons.... are we talking a different language here ??

 

[TBC]

 

[fourfarthing]

Spare time?? I'm looking forward to that !!

I have been unintentionally unemployed for 2 months. Rejoining the workforce next month. Brewing like flocc in between.

 

[orionol73]

Bourbon

 

[fourfarthing]

Yeah, but if you stagger accordingly it's not too bad.

Can you PM me your process? I would rock it, but.... have horribly ruined every one gallon I have brewed for forever at bottling.

 

[fourfarthing]

Huh? A brew day is a brew day no matter how many gallons.... are we talking a different language here ??

Variety is the spice of life, and if you only have one esophagus, you build a lot of unemptied bottles.

 

[lawdawg]

Variety is the spice of life, and if you only have one esophagus, you build a lot of unemptied bottles.

I quit bottling a while back… Kudos to those that still do… still takes just as long… stay thirsty my friends

 

[jimyson]

Bourbon
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Lose the ice

 

[beermanpete]

Lose the ice

Or at least, less of it.

 

[TwistedGray]

Can you PM me your process? I would rock it, but.... have horribly ruined every one gallon I have brewed for forever at bottling.

Lol, just take whatever you were going to do and turn it into a 1 gallon batch. Not sure there is much of a process? I usually look at the recipes on here, tweak them because I'm a tweaker, and that's about it. I don't do anything too systematically other than my note taking for future batches.

 

[jimyson]

Holy crap...I still have beer left after putting the kids to bed. Wowza.

 

[TwistedGray]

I quit bottling a while back… Kudos to those that still do… still takes just as long… stay thirsty my friends

The bottling is rather quick, maybe 5 min except I knocked a bottle on to the floor so there's that. 1/2tsp primed bottles, siphon to bottling bucket, into bottles, cap, mark, and rinse.

@Scturo - Got the hibiscus bottled, but I'm headed to Canada at the end of next week. I'll ship something when I'm back and we can swap a bottle or two to compare

 

[jimyson]

The bottling is rather quick, maybe 5 min except I knocked a bottle on to the floor so there's that. 1/2tsp primed bottles, siphon to bottling bucket, into bottles, cap, mark, and rinse.

@Scturo - Got the hibiscus bottled, but I'm headed to Canada at the end of next week. I'll ship something when I'm back and we can swap a bottle or two to compare

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So you have to wait 6 weeks for 9 beers? Fahck.

 

[TwistedGray]

So you have to wait 6 weeks for 9 beers? Fahck.

My ciders finish up in about 1.5-2 and another 1 week to drink (two if you care to wait that long). Everything else is closer to 4 weeks, but I have a plethora of different ones going. I've never been out of homebrew be that mine or something from the FotHB thread

 

[orionol73]

Lose the ice

It’s cheap ****. Basically bourbon/water

Trust I drank the samples you sent with just a drop of water!

 

[jimyson]

It’s cheap poopy. Basically bourbon/water

Add extra ice.

 

[fourfarthing]

Lol, just take whatever you were going to do and turn it into a 1 gallon batch. Not sure there is much of a process? I usually look at the recipes on here, tweak them because I'm a tweaker, and that's about it. I don't do anything too systematically other than my note taking for future batches.

Bottling is my hiccup. Do you use a full 6.5G bottling bucket?

 

[TwistedGray]

Bottling is my hiccup. Do you use a full 6.5G bottling bucket?

Yeah, I use that for everything. Doing one gallons from that requires some finesse I will say...I'm usually balancing the bucket on my head/shoulder while it's leaned over to get the whateverbeer out. Knock on wood, haven't ran into any big issues yet doing it this way. That is, I haven't had a bucket fall over...knock a bottle over here and there, sure. Forget to turn the spigot off, sure.

 

[lawdawg]

My ciders finish up in about 1.5-2 and another 1 week to drink (two if you care to wait that long). Everything else is closer to 4 weeks, but I have a plethora of different ones going. I've never been out of homebrew be that mine or something from the FotHB thread

I can turn 5 gallons around in the same amount of time. 10 or more if I was doing 10 or more ....but I digress... to each his own .... cheers!!!

 

[jimyson]

I haven’t churned any gallons around since last Thanksgiving. [emoji853]

 

[TwistedGray]

I can turn 5 gallons around in the same amount of time. 10 or more if I was doing 10 or more ....but I digress... to each his own .... cheers!!!

Wholeheartedly agree, but I would rather drink 10 gallons of different brews than 10 gallons of the same. I would like to claim I don't drink that much, but why lie among friends.

One gallons take the same time, a few pennies more expensive, but I can run through many different brews which is why I homebrew to begin with. Slancha

 

[Scturo]

The bottling is rather quick, maybe 5 min except I knocked a bottle on to the floor so there's that. 1/2tsp primed bottles, siphon to bottling bucket, into bottles, cap, mark, and rinse.

@Scturo - Got the hibiscus bottled, but I'm headed to Canada at the end of next week. I'll ship something when I'm back and we can swap a bottle or two to compare

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Sounds good. I’m fine with one or two. And bottling 5 gal batches takes way longer if you include the bottle cleaning and prep.

This Tasty @GaBrewZoo HB Heff from earlier.

 

[TwistedGray]

Figured this would be an appropriate way to pop the PhP glass cherry with a PPW @PianoMan

It has a very light color to it in a little bit of a haze. I'm speculating that's from the papaya, the haze. you get a very subtle piononos, but I want to say there's also banana in...perhaps from the fermentation? Very subtle papaya flavor, but a really crushable wheat!! Well done

 

[TwistedGray]

Sounds good. I’m fine with one or two. And bottling 5 gal batches takes way longer if you include the bottle cleaning and prep.

This Tasty @GaBrewZoo HB Heff from earlier.

I'll try and ship something before I get off to Canana; we'll see how that goes. Otherwise, end of the month.

 

[LoneTreeFarms]

Since we're talking smaller batches. Does anyone have a good source for 1-3 gallon kegs at a reasonable cost?

 

[TheDudeLebowski]

Since we're talking smaller batches. Does anyone have a good source for 1-3 gallon kegs at a reasonable cost?

I can't find my receipt I bought years ago but adventures in homebrewing Black Friday sales are usually good. I may be wrong but I think I paid 4 for $120. They were used but in very good shape. Just dusty. They currently have a 10% discount getting down to $76 new which isn't bad. Sale ends in an hour tho


Edit: $45 with discount

https://www.homebrewing.org/3-Gallon-Cornelius-Style-Pin-Lock-Keg-Used_p_4540.html

 

[jschm19]

Since we're talking smaller batches. Does anyone have a good source for 1-3 gallon kegs at a reasonable cost?

I've bought a few from adventures in homebrewing and never been disappointed

 

[jschm19]

Working in the garage beers

 

[smurfjuice]

On the coffee.

 

[pshankstar]

Since we're talking smaller batches. Does anyone have a good source for 1-3 gallon kegs at a reasonable cost?

I bought a new 2.5 gallon ball lock keg from Adventures in Home Brewing a few years back. It was around $75 shipped to my door and it was the best deal I could find for a smaller keg and seems to still be a good deal.

 

[treacheroustexan]

I bought a new 2.5 gallon ball lock keg from Adventures in Home Brewing a few years back. It was around $75 shipped to my door and it was the best deal I could find for a smaller keg and seems to still be a good deal.

I bought the same keg a few years back and it's great. I still use it write a bit for it smaller batches.highly recommend!

 

[Remmy]

 

[Hoppy2bmerry]

Appreciate that man, even if I forget who it came from..

All kidding aside, focusing on prevention is probably a good idea, though new research might be promising it's going to be awhile before coming to the masses.