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Ahh, cheers. Didn't consider that with the seals. I'll make sure to flip them next time.

Many thanks for the suggestions and tips, guys. I think I'll go straight to bottling, and then bide my time with cooling the beers down in the bottles and carefully pouring them.

Thanks for the advice! Yes, I realise clear glass isn't the best, but I was having a hard time tracking down brown glass swing-top bottles that didn't ultimately cost more than a full bottle of Hacker Pschorr... then I couldn't find Hacker Pschorr beers anywhere (I'm gonna blame Brexit for that...

Hi everyone, Wondered if I could get some feedback on whether my beer is ready to be bottled yet. I brewed a 1 gallon batch of Black IPA from a recipe from BeerCraftr. This is my first time having dry-hopped a beer, and I used pellets, rather than whole hops. It's been dry-hopping for 5...

Thanks. I was wondering about this option, but I wasn’t sure whether the remaining wort would be likely to survive the two weeks of fermentation.

That’s really useful. Thanks!

It was my first brew where the ingredients weren't all measured out for me, and first BIAB. Started off with 9 litres of water. The target was to end up with a 1.3 gallon yield, but I ended up with about 1.55 gallons. Annoyingly, I didn't have a hydrometer for an OG reading, but I'll get one...

Ah, no worries! Looks good. Thanks for that!

A fermenter with a spigot would seem like a godsend. If I had a swear-jar, I'd be broke just doing a 1 gallon syphoning into bottles 🤣. However, I'm UK-based, and I'm struggling to find any that come with them! All the homebrew sites based here don't seem to stock any 1-3 gallon fermenters...

Thanks! In a few weeks, this has already gone from "You know what, I'm gonna take one of those brewkits from work and give it another go" to my partner saying "I'm not sure it's fair that we pay equal rent, if one of the rooms in the flat is going to be taken up by homebrew supplies!"...

Ahh, that's super useful! I will look to apply this for the next brew. It definitely seems like being a bit under is easy to fix. I always hate wasting food, and this is basically the same principle.

Thanks for the insight, Pappers - really useful. I did a bit more reading on the general blurb from the guy who wrote the recipe, and he does specifically state that his boil kettle is very wide and boils off at a fast rate. That might possibly go some way to explaining the difference, so an...

Cheers BrewnWKopperKat! That's definitely a consideration. Although finding those 1.5-2 gallon fermenters seems to be slightly difficult. Most seem to jump from 1 up to 5 gallons. I'll have a look through this thread, though.

Hi, I’ve started brewing with a 1 gallon kit (Brooklyn BrewShop one). I did the initial all grain brew from the ingredients that were included, and it came out really well. Me being me, I’ve decided to go full pelt at this. I found some recipes for 1 gallon brews, and I decided to invest in a...

Hi everyone, I’m Beese from London (England). Just starting out my home brewing again, and going all grain (did some tinned kits some years ago). I’m brewing on a simple 1 gallon kit at the mo, and brewing small batches. Just brewed a Black IPA yesterday. Look forward to expanding my...