abracadabra
Well-Known Member
With the sky rocketing costs of hops and grains I thought a cost saving thread might be a good idea.
The more obvious ones include Group buys, or buying in bulk if you can't get a group together for your hops and grains purchases. Propagating yeast is another way but dried yeast is pretty cheap too.
Here are a couple I've thought about doing:
Hooking my gas burners up to a large propane tank where I can buy LP gas cheaper than in 20 lb, tanks and negotiate an additional discount for a large purchase plus buy at a time when demand is low and or prices are favorable.
I'm also going to go to a private water system for my cooling water. Most municipalities charge for water 2 times, 1 time for use and 1 time for wastewater treatment whether or not they break it out sometime people on septic tanks get a break. It takes a lot of water to brew so I see that as fairly large expense.
The more obvious ones include Group buys, or buying in bulk if you can't get a group together for your hops and grains purchases. Propagating yeast is another way but dried yeast is pretty cheap too.
Here are a couple I've thought about doing:
Hooking my gas burners up to a large propane tank where I can buy LP gas cheaper than in 20 lb, tanks and negotiate an additional discount for a large purchase plus buy at a time when demand is low and or prices are favorable.
I'm also going to go to a private water system for my cooling water. Most municipalities charge for water 2 times, 1 time for use and 1 time for wastewater treatment whether or not they break it out sometime people on septic tanks get a break. It takes a lot of water to brew so I see that as fairly large expense.