one gallon brewing

[Gavittk]

I usually make standard 5-gallon all-grain batches, but i want to start experimenting with one gallon batches and single hop or single malt brews to discover more about the flavors. Is it practical to just take a five-gallon recipe and divide it by five or is it not that simple? how much hops and grains should you use?

 

[StoutFan]

They are linear in most cases. Divide by 5 as a start and tweak from there.

 

[taylorb817]

If you are working from the same system, it should be the same, but my efficiency is always much higher on 1-gallon batches, so there might be some adjusting needed for specialty grains. Particularly, the amount of crystal in an IPA recipes can go from well-balanced to cloying in even just a few points of added efficiency.

 

[Ruckusz28]

I've recently done the same. My equipment limited me to not doing a full size boil. Now that I've reduced batch size to 2 gallons, I can really start getting that full utilization. Check out the 2.5 gallon brew demon conical fermenter. I didn't buy any of their kits, but I just bought the conical. Testing it out as we speak! Happy brewing.

 

[cubalz]

I brew the same recipes either in 1, 3, 5 or 10 gallon batches. The conversion is this: Original ingredient amount X New batch size / Old batch size. Do this calculation for each and every ingredient. This works every time as long as your process and equipment remains the same batch to batch.

 

[Ruckusz28]

I brew the same recipes either in 1, 3, 5 or 10 gallon batches. The conversion is this: Original ingredient amount X New batch size / Old batch size. Do this calculation for each and every ingredient. This works every time as long as your process and equipment remains the same batch to batch.

I can vouch for this as well. That's the method I've used and so far it hasn't let me down.