Hi Folks,
I'm fairly new to all this having done one truebatch 5L all grain brew (American pale ale that was delicious) and now two Craft range Kit brews (an IPA and a blonde).
I enjoyed the all grain kit but at €15 for a refill it seems a bit pricey for a 5L kit when you can buy a 20 odd litre kit from thehomebrewstore for about the same money. I don't have a boiler, chiller or mashtun yet so was thinking of just buying one of the 20L kits and dividing evrything by 4 and using my 5L equipment / techniques and brewing four times.
I figured I could vary the yeast or hops to experiment a bit this way.
What you all think?
thanks
I think you'd be far better off just ordering what you need for a 5 gallon brew. Just find a couple of recipes you like the look of online and order the ingredients from one of the HBS.
Check out Brooklyn brewshop beer making book. Huge range of 1 gallon recipes and some pretty out there concoctions. I used it a few times with some good results.
Thanks folks
Book ordered.
Brooklyn Brewshop book arrived today. Had a scan through it and am itching to get stuck into a few of these recipes. Thanks for the tip AJ_Rowley.
I've done a few of their recipes. It's worth noting the recipes run in US gallon batches (3.78L), I scale them up by 20% to roughly get an UK gallon (4.54L).
Let us know how you get on, I'm interested to try a few 1 gallon brews myself.
Thanks Robotmonkey, very good advice there!
Keg, It will be a couple of weeks before i get stuck into any of these but I'l update when i manage to get one done.
Cheers