Scaling recipes

[abkulp]

Is there anything tricky about scaling a recipe? I found a good recipe for a 5 gallon batch, but I want to scale it to half of that. Is it just a matter of cutting all the volume/weight numbers in half?

 

[Magic8Ball]

You could divide by two and get close however there are some items that may not scale by /2, like bitterness and color. For that some of the pay for software does a great job. Free is this scaling calculator: http://www.********.com/pages/recipe_scaling.html http://www.********.com/pages/recipe_scaling.html

Link fail again I give up....just go to ********.com and click on "recipe scaling calculator" jeez