Reddit mentions of Brewer's Best 1 Gallon Beer Equipment Kit

This is the Brewer's best #1004 kit we got. Can make about 3 gallons of beer out of it at a time if you use both the containers that come with it.

I would also recommend getting the bottlecapper and bottle caps. (These do not work with twist top bottles). They should be a bundle that amazon suggest. Also check out if you have a local store that carries it, because they will also have a lot of great advice.

For some scale, we made a ~>2.5 Gal batch of porter, ended up being around 20x 12oz beer bottles worth of beer. Also disregarding initial investment in non-consumable equipment, about $1 a bottle. And it's not back breaking work, mostly just like "is it at the right temperature, yes, aight imma wait an hour then"

You also NEED a large stock pot, like 5 gallons or so, because you need more water to start with than you finish with, and you have to fit the grain in.

Kit contents:

• 2 gallon primary fermenter W/lid and grommet

• 1 gallon glass jug W/lid for an Airlock

• Airlock

• no rinse Cleanser

• sanitizer

• mini auto siphon

• siphon tubing and shut off clamp

• liquid crystal \"stick on\" thermometer

• double lever Capper Lab

• thermometer

• Hydrometer with test jar

• bottle brush

• instructions.

I started brewing at all grain 1 gallon Brew In A Bag. I do 1 gallon because I love the process of brewing, its not any easier or shorter than doing 5 gallons but I don't brew to drink. I like the fact that I can make something good and be content with that and the process that came with it.

I currently use this: https://www.amazon.com/Brewers-Best-Gallon-Equipment-Kit/dp/B00CD7CY1G

Pro tips: You will need at least a 3-4 gallon kettle to mash and boil in. Use a "fine mesh" bag to do BIAB big enough to fit around your kettle. Get at least 2 more gallon jug fermenters along with rubber stoppers because the screw caps for the jug fermenter are questionable. Don't forget a funnel to transfer your wort to your 1 gallon fermenter. Get a small digital scale like this one to help with weighing hops, priming sugar, sanitizer, etc.. and lastly buy/make a wort chiller... Trust me from experience that doing ice baths to chill are absolutely the worst. And last but not least you will need BeerSmith... when you brew at such a small scale every little detail matters so get the aid in calculations from the software so that you just worry about your process.

Bonus: Get a digital thermometer, refractometer, and temperature controller for fermentation. Also, if you use any type of software to create your recipes always assume at least 60% efficiency with BIAB. One way to help your efficiency is squeeze the hell out of the bag (assuming you have appropriate gloves), double crush your grains at the local home brew shop, and stir good while you mash in. And lastly take the time to watch this video to get you an idea of what BIAB is.

I've got a fairly small apartment. I really only do 1-gallon batches, because I just don't have the space for the more typical 5-gallon ones. I also do mostly extract recipes because I don't have the equipment (or space) for all-grain ones.

That said, I've got a Brewer's Best 1-gallon equipment Kit (bought from a homebrew store), a 32 qt boiling pot, and several 1-gallon glass fermentors (one comes in the kit, the rest are from glass wine jugs that I repurpose).

Other that that you'd just need ingredients for your recipe and a couple airlocks (blowoff tubes are somewhat better with the 4L wine jugs, to make one you just need a rubber bung, a bit of vinyl tubing, and a small bottle/jar).