Splitting ready made 20L kits to do 5L brews?

[oinkely]

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

[Qs]

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.

[AJ_Rowley]

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.

[oinkely]

Thanks folks

Book ordered.

[oinkely]

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.

[robotmonkey]

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).

[Keg]

Let us know how you get on, I'm interested to try a few 1 gallon brews myself.

[oinkely]

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