FireBrew63
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Do you compute labor for the time you spend making love?
Steve
Man, I'd never get rich if I did that. Let's see 1/20th of an hour at $20 an hour...that's only $2 a week...on a good week!
Do you compute labor for the time you spend making love?
Steve
No, you need to compare brewing vs whatever you would have done with the time. For a lot of people that is not thumb-twiddling. If you view brewing as easy work, you should be just as happy to get a part time job at Burger King for the same hours, and you'll be ahead financially for it.
Think about it this way, if I ask your wife if your brewing has saved your household money what will she say? I mean when she stops laughing?
stevedasleeve said:Labor - really? Do you figure in labor cost for, say, playing soft ball or watching a movie? Do you compute labor for the time you spend making love? How about dinner time - 45 mins is, what $20?
And equipment is a one time deal with a slight bit of maintenance - IMHO and IM experience also.
The rest is ingredients. My last several 5 gallon batches cost me $23.73, $19.89, $21.81, $35.08, $26.68, $30.36, $22.26, $24.01, $21.63, $17.12, $23.67, and $15.06 not in order.
FWIW and YMMV of course and probably does!
Steve
KevinM said:Opportunity costs eh?
Well, outside of opportunity cost, I've already spent far more on brewing equipment and supplies in half a year, than ever I've spent beer and wine and spirits for a decade.
When looking at something from an economic (financial) standpoint, yes, labor must be included. If it costs you more time and money to prepare a meal at home than it would to purchase it, you're losing money by preparing it yourself. However, one must realize that in order for this to work, one must be making more money during that time period than they are spending.
You'll learn this in any basic college level economics class, in my case that was last semester.
i brew 3 or 4 AG batches every month. i still drink bud light!!!! not very often.. i also drop $20 on a bottle of beer every once in a while.. the fact is you'll find it very very hard to make a beer that tastes like bud light. a good lager is more money to make than ale too. you can probably save money by making only "kit" beer i bet; but i also bet it will not taste anything like a bud light.
BBKing said:Lol, someone thinks that they are going to save money, in the long run, by brewing?
Someone isnt obsessed yet!!!!
I was guilty of this sort of thinking a few years ago.
tpitman said:I'll bet, though, a lot of folks get into it (like me) looking at the cost of a cheap extract kit and think, "Wow, I can really save a pile making my own." Then, as they read and understand some of the finer points of brewing, and start looking at the "jewelry" under brewing equipment lists, they get more wrapped up in it. I have to say I've got tools for everything, some used only once for a very specific task. Some of my DIY activity has paid off handsomely, some has been a waste of time for the results I achieved. With brewing, we'll see if I can resist the "siren's call" of more sophisticated equipment, and settle for making a few styles of homebrew with the basic equipment I've bought that'll keep me out of the upper shelves of the cooler at the liquor store. I found the time spent brewing the simple kit I did, was fun, and I've spent a bit of time combing this forum and homebrew supplier's sites looking for info and an understanding of the process.
I just invested about 700 into a really nice extract set up and accesories
Good luck. I just invested about 700 into a really nice extract set up and accesories, and im already looking at all grain equipment and conical fermentors and I've only made 2 batches
Yep top quality 10 gallong stainless pot $125 weldless fittings $100 KAB4 bayou burner $100 capper $65 2x6.5 gallon carboys $40 each refractometer $65 german made lab grade hydrometer $45 immersion chiller $85 accessories random about $100 and then bottling equipment also but I guess basically everything is useful for all grain if/when I make the transition. Not cheap but basically everything I purchased is top of the line you could probably get set up for extract brew for under 100 bucks if you were really thrifty
There will always be one more gadget to buy.
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