kombat
Well-Known Member
I don't know where you live but if that's what it costs to do all grain there ill be sure to steer clear. If you're paying that much then you have serious problems
I don't think my estimate was that unreasonable. I've never actually sat down and added up my own expenses before, but here goes:
- $100 - Used refrigerator (for cold-crashing, storing yeast/hops/bottled beer)
- $100 - Used chest freezer (fermentation chamber for lagers, or holds kegs for serving)
- $200 - 15 gallon stainless boil kettle with ball valve and thermometer
- $75 - Turkey fryer set w/ burner and 7 gallon pot (HLT)
- $75 - Bayou Classic burner when I got sick of the stupid safety timer on the turkey fryer burner
- $25 - Spare propane tank
- $200 - 5 reconditioned ball lock Corny kegs
- $150 - 10 pound CO2 tank, filled, w/ regulator (for carbonating)
- $100 - 5 pound CO2 tank, filled, w/ regulator (for serving)
- $50 - Various hoses, beverage lines, picnic taps, gas manifolds, ball-lock quick-disconnects, etc
- $20 - Spare poppets, O-rings, keg lube, gas/liquid posts, pick-up tube scrub brush
- $25 - PBW, StarSan
- $50 - 48-quart Coleman cooler
- $40 - 2 stainless Bazooka screens (one for mash tun, one for boil kettle)
- $20 - Brass barb, ball-lock valve, brass coupler, washers, and rubber O-rings for completing fittings in cooler mash tun
- $100 - Hop screen (the cylindrical custom stainless steel ones from Chad at Arbor Fabricating that everybody uses)
- $25 - Good, digital thermometer
- $10 - Good, stainless mash stirring spoon
- $20 - BrewHauler strap (essential for lifting lagers into and out of the chest freezer fermentation chamber)
- $30 - EvaDry dehumidifier (necessary to control humidity in freezer)
- $50 - Temperature controller (to use freezer as fermentation chamber)
- $100 - Cabinet and organizational compartments to store and organize everything
- $125 - DudaDiesel 30-plate chiller
- $100 - Quick-disconnect fittings (4) to connect hoses to plate chiller
- $50 - T-joint, fittings, and thermometer to monitor wort temperature at chiller output port
- $125 - 5 glass carboys
- $50 - Basic pump for moving wort during chilling
- $20 - Fizz-X for aerating wort
- $200 - A dozen food-grade plastic pails with Gamma Seal lids for storing bulk grain (with shipping and taxes)
- $125 - Foodsaver vacuum sealer with extra rolls, for sealing bulk hops
- $40 - StirStarter stir plate, with power supply and keeper magnet
- $10 - Stir bar (with taxes and shipping)
- $20 - 2000 mL borosilicate flask (for yeast starters)
- $10 - Kitchen scale (for weighing grains)
- $15 - Fine digital scale (for weighing hops)
- $100 - Lab vials, syringes, extra flasks and beakers, alcohol lamp with wick and fuel, nichrome wire loop, Agar powder, vinyl tape, autoclavable rack, for yeast harvesting/culturing
- $10 - Autosiphon
- $10 - Bottle tree
- $20 - Vinator bottle rinser/sanitizer
- $100 - BarleyCrusher grain mill
That's $2,695.
That's not including the cost of any ingredients or any of the books I've bought, nor the beer bottles, or other miscellaneous items, like paper towel, the notebooks I use to take notes, the propane, water, and electricity used during all this, or the copper coil immersion chiller I bought before I upgraded to the plate chiller.