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You'll have less sparge water. Depending on your recipe that's not a huge deal, with a big grain bill it's a bummer

I jump around styles often and don't have any problems with hop oils staining my yeast. I don't recommend feeling restricted to one style after you wash the yeast. Have fun with your stout. Just avoid any things gluten free

Yes! I applaud that recipe. Keep up the ingenuity man

Yea, I would be slightly hesitant to secondary in one but for a primary fermentor it should be fine. By they way, that is huge where did you find it?

Very ingenuitive. Is there a downside to just letting the line sit in a bucket of cleaner though?

I'm sure it will be fine. It's not like you have anything to lose right?

I probably boil for three minutes.

Exactly, you'd probably notice a difference if you tasted it back to back with a beer you brewed only boiling sixty minutes but without that reference it's barely going to make a difference. I think ninety minutes is considered the cutoff when you're efficiency is considered negligable

I brew in Fort Collins. It seems to me that I need to mash a bit thinner (1.5qt/lb) as with most of my cooking needs a bit more water. I can't figure out evaporation loss in secondary though. Aren't you secondarying in a closed container?

Wow a pound of carapils in a one gallon batch? That is a lot of carapils.

Recipe perhaps? All of my attempts have been terrible

I've done it, it works fine. I didn't check the gravity but it came out sweeter than when it went in

I agree, in the long run you will save money by only buying one larger mash tun rather than a small one now and long one later on

I like to use carlo rossi wine jugs for one gallon batches. It's eleven dollars and I get over a gallon of wine that isn't too bad.

you measure your hops by the cup? And four cups wasn't enough for this guy? wow

You can just leave the lid off while you chill.

That one looks perfect. Where do I find the 20% off coupon?

glad you didn't dump it. People can get really pessimistic on here. I'm sure your mead will be fine, if it was me I'd add some champagne yeast to clean things up but I have heard of people getting fine results from bread yeast

you can make one gallon of mead.

Yea why not, it'll make him happy and there's always a chance you'll come up with something good. Unless you're really pressed for cash I don't see any reason not to brew a batch, just don't use them for bittering