Stove top brewing

[colliefish]

I've done a bit of searching for small batch ag recipes but to no avail.
Could anyone point me in the right deprecation please.
Thanks

 

[clibit]

In our completed recipe forum there are quite a few 10 litre batches. Halve them for 5 litres if you want.

 

[colliefish]

Cheers clibit. :-)

 

[clibit]

Cheers clibit. :-)

And you can convert any recipe to any size you want. Easiest way is by entering it into a brewing calculator, or you can do some maths. Like halving or quartering all the ingredients. Or, divide all quantities by the number of litres the recipe makes, and then multiply by the number of litres you want.

 

[GlentoranMark]

Geterbrewed are just starting to do Stove top complete kits. I haven't found them on the site but they are promoting them on social media (Facebook). Give them a try as you'll get a kit with no wastage in the correct proportions.

2 alternatives:

Create your own! That's what I do although I do 15 - 23L sizes. I use the Wort for Android software and buy my ingredients so there's little wastage (although I always end up with something extra)

Ask on the forum. Tell us what style of beer you want and someone will create something for you. I know some of the recipes have been tweaked thanks to input from other Homebrewers.

 

[Sandimas]

As everyone else has said, any 23L brew can easily be converted into a smaller recipe using readily-available brewing software. I use Brewmate to convert them to 10/12L brews.

Let us know what style of beer you like and I'll post a few up. You can buy small batches of grain from the homebrew shops so you can make them up really cheaply.

 

[colliefish]

I'm a fan of stouts, ales and anything with alcohol. (Not lager).
Thanks for your help guys.
Much appreciated.

 

[ManseMasher]

http://www.geterbrewed.com/new-products/

Here you go....

 

[clibit]

http://www.geterbrewed.com/new-products/

Here you go....

Handy, but you can make 23 litres for that price. Geterbrewed do 50g hop packs, which is good. Buy three or four hops, some pale malt and crystal, chocolate and maybe roast barley, and some yeast and you can make a good range of beers.

 

[colliefish]

Cheers guys. Inspiring.

 

[Sandimas]

This is a nice little recipe I knocked up and turned out to be one of my best stove-top all grains. You can make this for under a tenner and have some ingredients left over for the next one. The main thing you'll need, if you don't already have it, is a decent stock pot 15L or so. Catering pots are cheap off eBay, worth getting or making a grain bag too.

Recipe Specs
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Batch Size (L): 10.0
Original Gravity (OG): 1.047 (°P): 11.7
Final Gravity (FG): 1.012 (°P): 3.1
Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 4.62 %

Grain Bill
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2.000 kg Maris Otter Malt (93.02%)
0.150 kg Crystal 60 standard (6.98%)

Hop Bill
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24.0 g Cascade Leaf (7.8% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (2.4 g/L)
18.0 g Cascade Leaf (7.8% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.8 g/L)
14.0 g Cascade Leaf (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Minutes (Aroma) (1.4 g/L)
14.0 g Cascade Leaf (7.8% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop) (1.4 g/L)

 

[Sandimas]

Here's how I do it, have got 2 stock pots - 15L and the smaller one is either 10L or 12L, can't remember.I use the smaller one for the mash and the larger one for dunk sparge and boil

The good thing with the smaller one is that it fits in the oven, which I can warm up on min and stick the pot in to keep the mash temp up

Then after the mash is complete just do the boil on the hob in the bigger 15L pot

I do 10-12L AG brews this way and it works out a treat :)

 

[geigercntr]

I'm pretty much a noob myself, but am up to AG#3 all done on a stove top.
One word of advice: remember basic physics...
I tried to brew a Russian Imp Stout, but ran out of pot space long before I ran out of grain... Might be a bit acrid this one :)
#learningexperience

 

[Tony1951]

Geterbrewed are just starting to do Stove top complete kits. I haven't found them on the site but they are promoting them on social media (Facebook). Give them a try as you'll get a kit with no wastage in the correct proportions.

Geterbrewed are good I think and I buy a fair bit from them and I've never been disappointed.

These little stove top kits will be useful especially for someone just dipping their toes into AG, but they aren't cheap, are they? I can make a 23 litre finished 7.5% ABV IPA for way less than a tenner with Geterbrewed supplied ingredients bought in bulk. I reckon the APAs with their more expensive hops come in cheaper than that. Don't want to rain on their parade because they are a good company, but once you've come up with a beer you like, you'd be much better off just buying 25kg of grain and enough hops to make it and you'd cut your costs by an enormous margin that way.

 

[colliefish]

Awesome advice, help and support from the forum as usual!!!!
One quick question.
When people are talking about hop addition and say @ 60 or @10 Is this at start of the 60 minute boil and 10 minutes from the end?
Sorry for what must seem like a dumb question.

 

[ManseMasher]

Not a dumb question at all, and you are right. Times for hop additions are from boil. So for a 60 minute boil, 60 minute hops go in at start of boil, 10 minute hops go in at 10 minutes before boil is due to finish.

 

[ManseMasher]

Geterbrewed are good I think and I buy a fair bit from them and I've never been disappointed.

These little stove top kits will be useful especially for someone just dipping their toes into AG, but they aren't cheap, are they? I can make a 23 litre finished 7.5% ABV IPA for way less than a tenner with Geterbrewed supplied ingredients bought in bulk. I reckon the APAs with their more expensive hops come in cheaper than that. Don't want to rain on their parade because they are a good company, but once you've come up with a beer you like, you'd be much better off just buying 25kg of grain and enough hops to make it and you'd cut your costs by an enormous margin that way.

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[Tony1951]

Latest giveaway?!!

I signed up already. It's a great prize for those who win it.

 

[colliefish]

Cheers guys!!!!!!!

 

[mike77]

You can do full batches on a regular gas stove!

I have a 30L pot and get 24L to 25L out of it. Just stick it on the big gas ring.