I’m thinking of scaling down. When I started brewing, everything was 5 gallons. After having made some terrible beers over my time, and with so many options I want to try out and compare, I was thinking of scaling down. For example, if I wanna compare yeasts, maybe I make a SMASH beer but 2x1 gal. Use yeast A in the 1st gal and yeast B in the 2nd gal.
Also, I enjoy the act of brewing, but I only drink 1 beer a day, so that takes me 1.5 months to get thru 5gal a batch.
Has anyone scaled down? Did anything change or surprise you?
I found sweet spot at about 35l - usually I brew for some kind of occasion like birtgday, friends wedding… So 30 l keg and few test bottles. But I didn’t brew at home since I started working in brewery.
So I upscaled from this to 2000 l batches.