vaanderal
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Morning lads,
I am toying with the idea of doing small batches for recipe tweaking. Have a few questions am hoping the experienced can answer.
Essentially the reason is that i have a bunch of recipe ideas i want to play with, but i dont drink enough beer to warrant full batch sizes of something that might not be much good. Also would like to do some experimental brews to test out certain ingredients
- What is the smallest batch size you'd want to use? Am thinking 5L
- What fermenters do you use for smaller batches?
- Have you had any issues scaling a successful small batch to a larger batch? Taste differences, etc?
- Do certain beer styles suffer from small batches? E.g. i was considering a Vienna lager. Although i can think of no reason it would suffer from a small batch (providing adequate yeast pitched and temp controlled.
Thanks in advance,
Ben
I am toying with the idea of doing small batches for recipe tweaking. Have a few questions am hoping the experienced can answer.
Essentially the reason is that i have a bunch of recipe ideas i want to play with, but i dont drink enough beer to warrant full batch sizes of something that might not be much good. Also would like to do some experimental brews to test out certain ingredients
- What is the smallest batch size you'd want to use? Am thinking 5L
- What fermenters do you use for smaller batches?
- Have you had any issues scaling a successful small batch to a larger batch? Taste differences, etc?
- Do certain beer styles suffer from small batches? E.g. i was considering a Vienna lager. Although i can think of no reason it would suffer from a small batch (providing adequate yeast pitched and temp controlled.
Thanks in advance,
Ben