mimo777
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So I figured that all in all my costs for the pale ale I brewed last night was $13.54 or a quarter a bottle! wow! Not including the cost of the equipment, lol! Sam Adams is $1.42 a bottle at the store, lol!
So I figured that all in all my costs for the pale ale I brewed last night was $13.54 or a quarter a bottle! wow! Not including the cost of the equipment, lol! Sam Adams is $1.42 a bottle at the store, lol!
Harvesting yeast is great.
I buy my hops in bulk, but I find that it constricts me a bit lately. I only have Centennial and Cascade, so I brew everything with those now. Maybe I should buy more variety. I wish I could buy half lbs of 4 dif hops instead of lbs of 2!
I like to see a break down of those costs I think you must be omitting some expenses.
Such as LP or eletricity, water involved in brewing and chilling, cleaning and sanitizing solution and the water involved in that too, sugar & or CO2, Bottle caps if you bottle unless you reuse bottle caps. Plus any heating or cooling expense to keep your wort at fermentation temp. If you use LP in portable tanks there's also the expense of driving to a refill site unless you combine that with a trip you'll make for other purposes or have a site you can stop by on your regular commute
I'm assuming you aerate rather than oxygenate so you don't have any expense for oxygenation, and that you wash your yeast and reuse that as well and get the orginal yeast for free from some other brewer.
I think you can about double your estimate
Home brewing really only make economic sense if you do like jetsmooth and brew something really expensive like DuVel or figure your free time as of no value whatsoever.
I value my free time. But I do not figure my time as cost into the brew. if you did you would never come out ahead. I don't figure my time when I do my other hobbies or, so why should I figure in the cost of time when I get enjoyment out of doing it?
It's a great hobby alright and the money argument is good to use on the wife!
My money argument went out the window with the wife about $1000 ago.
My money argument went out the window with the wife about $1000 ago.
I like to see a break down of those costs I think you must be omitting some expenses.
Such as LP or eletricity, water involved in brewing and chilling, cleaning and sanitizing solution and the water involved in that too, sugar & or CO2, Bottle caps if you bottle unless you reuse bottle caps. Plus any heating or cooling expense to keep your wort at fermentation temp. If you use LP in portable tanks there's also the expense of driving to a refill site unless you combine that with a trip you'll make for other purposes or have a site you can stop by on your regular commute
I'm assuming you aerate rather than oxygenate so you don't have any expense for oxygenation, and that you wash your yeast and reuse that as well and get the orginal yeast for free from some other brewer.
I think you can about double your estimate
Home brewing really only make economic sense if you do like jetsmooth and brew something really expensive like DuVel or figure your free time as of no value whatsoever.
the problem with that math, for me at least, is that I wouldn't drink nearly as much beer if I had to buy it.
well I just spent $70 bones on ingredients. But its for 12 gal of a big IPA. Half of the cost was for hops,I need to buy hops in bulk. that would help me out more than anything. but 20lbs of grain is pretty cheap.
High efficiency, small grain bill, recycled yeast, bulk malt, hops and caps. Ultra cheap Canadian electricity.
remember the price of a sixtel of craft beer is quite expensive.....I pay around $60 plus tax for SNPA.......
What's a "sixtel"? Is that a sixth barrel, or roughly the size of a corny?
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