Just a quick I am going to gloat moment 10 gallons of beer for a grand total cost of $10.00.
I made 10 gallons of lager the other day and it cost me next to nothing to make it. Let me gloat and run down the price breakdowns for ya.
I ordered 14 lbs of crushed grain from an online homebrew shop, but they sent me whole grain, instead of crushed. To make up for it they sent me the crushed and told me to keep the whole grain, nice, free grain. I brought the whole grain to a friends house and used his mill to grind it up. I then went to my kitchen cupboard and got about 5 pounds of rice out of my 20lb bag and boiled it up to use as an adjunct along with the 14 lbs of grain. This is essentially zero cost unless you count the rice which probably cost me all of $3.
I used the hops that I grew this past season to bitter and to add aroma to this lager. So the hops cost me Nothing at all.
I then made a starter from some washed lager yeast I was keeping in my fridge. I got a lb of dme off the shelf, it probably cost me $4.00, but I don't know as it was just sitting on my shelf waiting to be used.
If you count in the cost of gas and cleaning supplies etc I probably spent about $10 on this 10 gallons of beer. So I can truly say go ahead, grab a beer, they don't cost nothing, well they actually wind up costing me about 10 cents each....
In my mind though the beer didn't cost me a single cent as it was made from left overs and things I had around the house anyway.
I made 10 gallons of lager the other day and it cost me next to nothing to make it. Let me gloat and run down the price breakdowns for ya.
I ordered 14 lbs of crushed grain from an online homebrew shop, but they sent me whole grain, instead of crushed. To make up for it they sent me the crushed and told me to keep the whole grain, nice, free grain. I brought the whole grain to a friends house and used his mill to grind it up. I then went to my kitchen cupboard and got about 5 pounds of rice out of my 20lb bag and boiled it up to use as an adjunct along with the 14 lbs of grain. This is essentially zero cost unless you count the rice which probably cost me all of $3.
I used the hops that I grew this past season to bitter and to add aroma to this lager. So the hops cost me Nothing at all.
I then made a starter from some washed lager yeast I was keeping in my fridge. I got a lb of dme off the shelf, it probably cost me $4.00, but I don't know as it was just sitting on my shelf waiting to be used.
If you count in the cost of gas and cleaning supplies etc I probably spent about $10 on this 10 gallons of beer. So I can truly say go ahead, grab a beer, they don't cost nothing, well they actually wind up costing me about 10 cents each....
In my mind though the beer didn't cost me a single cent as it was made from left overs and things I had around the house anyway.