All grain is crazy cheap!

[RichBenn]

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.

My last beer was a Stone Ruination Clone (IIPA). It was half the size of yours, but not $35, maybe $20 max, as I got a huge amount of Centennial, really, really cheap! It used almost exclusively Centennial, at 100+ IBU.

What I've not done is figure out how to make a varied malt and/or high quantity hop bill like a Pliny clone to be that cheap. Then again, I bought a bomber of an exotic IIPA recently for $10! If you are a hophead or like exotic flavors, you are going to spend more, but may also "save" more!

 

[Dauntless]

High efficiency, small grain bill, recycled yeast, bulk malt, hops and caps. Ultra cheap Canadian electricity.

I've got down to 10$ 6 gallon batches of stout and pale ales. I'm a student, I'm a cheapass, I love getting buddies a little drunk for loose change. Beer here tends to be pretty expensive.

 

[MVKTR2]

I come in at easily under $30 per 5.5 gallon batch, including the cost of water, gas, all equipment averaged out, ingredients, EVERYTHING. If the average commercial 6er cost $8, that's a cost differential of approx. $3 per sixer to $8 per sixer. Yes brewing for me is cheaper than drinking commercial brews. Add in the cost savings by brewing your own RIS, Barleywine, and clones of high end $4+ per bottle brews and the savings become even more drastic. However as many have said this hobby can be as expensive or inexpensive as you make it. I tend to be on the less expensive end of that spectrum.

Schlante,
Phillip

 

[lumpher]

hopsdirect.com has great prices by the pound. i brewed an ipa a couple weeks ago (and will be kegging it) tomorrow for about $40 for 11 gallons. 6.8%, 65 ibu...

 

[brewingkitty]

every time i do the math and i get about $0.25/12 oz pour i then factor in the 2 oe 3 thousand i have spent on the brewery and it make smy head hurt.

 

[mashman]

remember the price of a sixtel of craft beer is quite expensive.....I pay around $60 plus tax for SNPA.......from what I have read here things can get really reasonable with bulk grain / hop buys, combine this with yeast washing and you really can save some cash

 

[joety]

High efficiency, small grain bill, recycled yeast, bulk malt, hops and caps. Ultra cheap Canadian electricity.

Yeah, and they just started the last phase of the James Bay Project (Rupert River Diversion) that should make it even cheaper.

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?

 

[BulldogBrewer]

With my club discount at the LHBS and harvesting my own yeast, I'm doing a blonde today for about $14 for the 5G batch. Not bad at all.

 

[mashman]

What's a "sixtel"? Is that a sixth barrel, or roughly the size of a corny?

yep sixth barrel....or third of a half keg, so its slightly more than 5 gallons

 

[bionicbrew]

that's really the only reason I went AG. and I want my head buried in the sand on the power/propane/parts costs, so keep quiet!

 

[munklunk]

Uh, yea, so a 50lbs bag of Rahr 2 row on Northern Brewer is 35.99 (http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-ingredients/grain-malts/rahr-2-row-pale.html)

That means it must be cheaper out there. Good god, I love AG brewing.

 

[Apendecto]

Uh, yea, so a 50lbs bag of Rahr 2 row on Northern Brewer is 35.99 (http://www.northernbrewer.com/brewing/brewing-ingredients/grain-malts/rahr-2-row-pale.html)

That means it must be cheaper out there. Good god, I love AG brewing.

Yeah, and right next to you, too.

http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/index.asp

 

[Starderup]

8 lbs of 2-Row - $4.80 (got in on a group buy - insanely low prices)
2 lbs of Vienna - $3.90
2.5 lbs of 10L - $4.75
3 oz of hops - $2.70
total $16.15 for a 5.5 gallon batch.
58 bottles equals a little over 9 six packs.
My house beer is an APA that compares very favorably to SNPA, and that would be almost a hundred bucks at the corner store.
I'm sure I am missing some onesies and twosies like propane, caps, and priming sugar (not to mention Irish Moss - at a ridiculous ten to fifteen cents per batch!), and I'm sure not going to include my time as a cost, but I think you can see where I'm going with this.

And as soon as you figure it out, can you PM me?

 

[munklunk]

Yeah, and right next to you, too.

http://www.countrymaltgroup.com/index.asp

I'd love to get a group buy around here somewhere.

 

[Apendecto]

I'd love to get a group buy around here somewhere.

You'll kill a sack of 2 row before you know it.

 

[Starderup]

You'll kill a sack of 2 row before you know it.

It took me about six weeks, but I did a few batches since I tore open the first sack that didn't use 2-Row. Now, I just started on the second bag, and found out the next group buy was cancelled because the host backed out of the negotiations. Not panicking yet, but thinking about it!

 

[lumpher]

i get into group-buys with the lhbs's. about $36 for a bag of 2-row, about $50 for a 55lb pils or a 55lb wheat. that $41 for the 11g ipa is everything - malt, yeast, hops ( from hopsdirect ), and gas