One Gallon Brewing

With the growing interest in homebrewing have come a lot of people who want to brew but lack the space or equipment to brew on the typical homebrewer five gallon scale or simply do not want to sit on five gallons of every beer they ever make. A trend over the past few years is to scale down homebrewing to a fewer number of gallons, all the way down to one gallon. I am a big fan of one gallon brewing (along with two gallons, 2.5 gallons and three gallons) and I've carved out some space on my blog to discuss one gallon brewing. In the coming months I will continue to write more on the subject, including equipment set ups, recipe construction, brewing and some other useful information I've learned over a handful of years brewing on a smaller scale.

Introductory material 

One gallon brewing, why the heck would you do it? - a brief overview of one gallon brewing and some thoughts on why you might want to start out brewing on a small scale or develop a smaller set up if you are an experienced homebrewer.

Ingredient cost savings for the one gallon brewer - If you're ready to start all grain brewing or designing your own recipes but you don't want to scale up to a larger batch size, this post offers some simple ways to think about your brewing schedule and purchases to make your ingredient purchases more cost effective.

All grain brewing

Small batch all grain brewing part 1 - An overview of how all grain brewing works and the basic steps involved in all grain brewing. 

Small batch all grain brewing part 2 - A discussion of some different homebrew set ups for small grain brewing, including my own hybrid system.

Small batch all grain brewing part 3 - A pictorial walkthrough of an all grain batch of a one gallon beer.