Dead Ringer
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Hi all. n00b brewer here. Several ciders and one Brooklyn Brew shop all-grain kit done. All with (in my opinion) delicious results so far!
Continuing with more all-grain 1-gallon brewing, I'm curious about ingredients for small batches. My LHBS here in Toronto seems to have excellent inventory, and I'm grateful for that. Just that grains need to be purchased in increments of 1lb. How do other small-batch brewers deal with a storing a multitude of pre-milled grains? I can picture myself having many "leftover" quantities of grains between brews, especially if I'm experimenting with different recipes. Hops with minimum 1oz package sizes have a similar issue.
I suppose that even having "wasted" leftover grains and hops could end up being cheaper than buying more kits...
Experimental brews with random leftovers could be fun too.
I would likely continue to stick with dry yeast as well. Seems easier to manage partial packages. Or is there a good way to set aside opened liquid yeast packages until a future brew day?
Just curious to hear how other small batch brewers deal with this too.
Thanks,
Vic
Continuing with more all-grain 1-gallon brewing, I'm curious about ingredients for small batches. My LHBS here in Toronto seems to have excellent inventory, and I'm grateful for that. Just that grains need to be purchased in increments of 1lb. How do other small-batch brewers deal with a storing a multitude of pre-milled grains? I can picture myself having many "leftover" quantities of grains between brews, especially if I'm experimenting with different recipes. Hops with minimum 1oz package sizes have a similar issue.
I suppose that even having "wasted" leftover grains and hops could end up being cheaper than buying more kits...
Experimental brews with random leftovers could be fun too.
I would likely continue to stick with dry yeast as well. Seems easier to manage partial packages. Or is there a good way to set aside opened liquid yeast packages until a future brew day?
Just curious to hear how other small batch brewers deal with this too.
Thanks,
Vic