waggastew
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I didn't get into to home brewing to save money, I like the whole cross between alcohol/science/cooking etc and of course the creativity and freedom of brewing what I want.
Tonight I have just placed my next order with our lovely sponsors Craftbrewer. I tend to order four beers ahead to ensure that shipping to the MNC does not get out of hand. I am a Partial Mash brewer and I don't buy any ingredients in bulk.
Anyway one of the brews I have planned is a copy of one of America's highest rated APA/AIPA's Three Floyds Zombie Dust. I am actually going to brew two batches, one with Citra (like the original ZD) and one with Mosaic (the new hipster of hops it seems, it might come wearing rolled up jeans, a designer flanno and have a beard!). It ends up being about 220g of hops in a 19L batch and my initial gut reaction was this is gonna be relatively pricey. Relative was right.
According my calculations including cost of LDME, malts, all hops, yeast, and share of shipping it works out to be $28 per standard shop bought case of beer. Now given this is hopefully going to be 95%-105% as shit hot as one of the best craft brews on the US market tha its very freakin cheap. As a comparison one longneck of a comparable beer, say Green Flash IPA comes to somewhere around $15 a longie at most good Sydney bottle shops.
I ain't complaining about the cost of US craftbeer (hell its gotta come a long way) and I regularly buy stocks when in the Big Smoke to -ahem- benchmark my brews and gain inspiration. But at $2.30 a longie for my copy which will probably be fresher and hence full of hoppier goodness I am happy. That and I hope I like it cause I have never been able to get a bottle in Oz. Hope the nerds at Beer Advocate are right.
OK, 'Ode to HB' over
Stew
Tonight I have just placed my next order with our lovely sponsors Craftbrewer. I tend to order four beers ahead to ensure that shipping to the MNC does not get out of hand. I am a Partial Mash brewer and I don't buy any ingredients in bulk.
Anyway one of the brews I have planned is a copy of one of America's highest rated APA/AIPA's Three Floyds Zombie Dust. I am actually going to brew two batches, one with Citra (like the original ZD) and one with Mosaic (the new hipster of hops it seems, it might come wearing rolled up jeans, a designer flanno and have a beard!). It ends up being about 220g of hops in a 19L batch and my initial gut reaction was this is gonna be relatively pricey. Relative was right.
According my calculations including cost of LDME, malts, all hops, yeast, and share of shipping it works out to be $28 per standard shop bought case of beer. Now given this is hopefully going to be 95%-105% as shit hot as one of the best craft brews on the US market tha its very freakin cheap. As a comparison one longneck of a comparable beer, say Green Flash IPA comes to somewhere around $15 a longie at most good Sydney bottle shops.
I ain't complaining about the cost of US craftbeer (hell its gotta come a long way) and I regularly buy stocks when in the Big Smoke to -ahem- benchmark my brews and gain inspiration. But at $2.30 a longie for my copy which will probably be fresher and hence full of hoppier goodness I am happy. That and I hope I like it cause I have never been able to get a bottle in Oz. Hope the nerds at Beer Advocate are right.
OK, 'Ode to HB' over
Stew