bdleedahl
Well-Known Member
So I figure that I currently drink about 3 beer a day on average... this works out to approximately 1100 bottles of beer a year... call me crazy, how much beer do you drink a year? Figure it out if you have 20 minutes to kill.
I realize that this is not necessarily a great thing, nor am I bragging, but was just surprised at what I figured out. I have the advantage of being 22 and in university which many of you older folks may not.
Anyways heres the way I estimated it...
Assumption #1 -> my supply of home brew stays in equilibrium (which I would say is pretty accurate, I drink it at the rate I make it and usually have about 100 full bottles in my basement at all times)
1. The first 6 months of 2010 I have brewed 6, 23 liter batches which = 138L
Assumption #2 -> this rate of brewing stays relatively constant
2. so in 1 year 138L x 2 = 276L
3. a bottle of home brew is about 330ml (0.33L)
4.so 276L is 836 bottles
5. 836 bottles is 2.3 bottles a day on average
Assumption #3 -> the rate that I give away home brew equals the amount that I receive from friends
6. This is the biggest guess of the whole thing, but I gotta say that just by guessing that I go out to a bar/pub about once a week and very conservatively say I drink 5 beers a week from these places means that 52 weeks x 5 = 208 beer
7. so 836 + 208 = 1044 bottles a year
8. 1044 x 0.055 = 57.4L of alcohol a year if I guess that the average beer is 5.5% alc/vol
Anyways, just though this was interesting and again I am not bragging, just was curious.
- yeah I put 1100 in the thread title because it looked cooler than 1044
I realize that this is not necessarily a great thing, nor am I bragging, but was just surprised at what I figured out. I have the advantage of being 22 and in university which many of you older folks may not.
Anyways heres the way I estimated it...
Assumption #1 -> my supply of home brew stays in equilibrium (which I would say is pretty accurate, I drink it at the rate I make it and usually have about 100 full bottles in my basement at all times)
1. The first 6 months of 2010 I have brewed 6, 23 liter batches which = 138L
Assumption #2 -> this rate of brewing stays relatively constant
2. so in 1 year 138L x 2 = 276L
3. a bottle of home brew is about 330ml (0.33L)
4.so 276L is 836 bottles
5. 836 bottles is 2.3 bottles a day on average
Assumption #3 -> the rate that I give away home brew equals the amount that I receive from friends
6. This is the biggest guess of the whole thing, but I gotta say that just by guessing that I go out to a bar/pub about once a week and very conservatively say I drink 5 beers a week from these places means that 52 weeks x 5 = 208 beer
7. so 836 + 208 = 1044 bottles a year
8. 1044 x 0.055 = 57.4L of alcohol a year if I guess that the average beer is 5.5% alc/vol
Anyways, just though this was interesting and again I am not bragging, just was curious.
- yeah I put 1100 in the thread title because it looked cooler than 1044