Brewery now open.....or not.

[Camo6]

Step 5: Storage
After you get your beer home from U-Brew It, it needs to be kept cold in a fridge to avoid any re-fermentation should any wild yeast, unfermented fermentables or bacteria get through the filtration system. Because at U-Brew It, we do not add any chemicals or preservatives to guard against re-fermentation. This is a safe guard to protect your beer.

FTFY.

 

[AntonW]

I wonder if they are paying excise tax.

They would be. There's a special rate for them in the Schedule to the Excise Tariff Act 1921.

Beer not exceeding 3% by volume of alcohol produced for non‑commercial purposes using commercial facilities or equipment - $2.22 per litre of alcohol calculated on that alcohol content by which the percentage by volume of alcohol of the goods exceeds 1.15

Beer exceeding 3% by volume of alcohol produced for non‑commercial purposes using commercial facilities or equipment - $2.58 per litre of alcohol calculated on that alcohol content by which the percentage by volume of alcohol of the goods exceeds 1.15

This compares to around $6 and $36 (roughly) per litre of alchol for beer of the same strength, sold in kegs for commercial purposes. There's a bit more to it of course, but that's the general idea.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Its not non-commercial though, they are selling it.

They get away with excise completely by you pitching the yeast. Each of them do sell cans cheap which is not advertised but a bit hush hush.

At 9L per slab you're saying by selling them for $24 they are losing money as the excise you quoted is $23.22. Ingredients would be on top of that and labour, rent, utilities etc etc.

They are avoiding excise and the clause which exempts them by it by doing all the production into alcohol and sale of it which is illegal.

 

[DJ_L3ThAL]

Or is it alcohol itself in litres, ie at 5% ABV, 0.45L alcohol in a 375mL 24 pack slab? That means just $1.161 per slab tax... which is SFA. conversely $15 for a 50L slab of 5% ABV beer... what are the breweries complaining about if that is correct? It doesn't sound as high as I though excise was....

 

[Blind Dog]

its the 2nd one, but only on the alcohol over 1.15% so more like $1.13 a slab for BOP stuff

For commercial beer, a lower rate applies to an individual package over 48, but does not apply to slabs as the bottles are the package not the slab. So about $64 for a 50L keg, but $16 for a 9L slab

the government also get the GST on the final sale price, so on a $40 slab, about $20 is excise and GST

 

[pk.sax]

@ DJ, this one did the yeast pitching for the customers on site. Tub of water, yeast in and rehydrated by shaking and in it went. At least he was rehydrating.... Didn't see any suggestion of sanitisers around there. No sanitary gloves etc. I get it, none of us do but they are basically handling food products in a commercial setup. Lots of little things that seem red tape but they should work them out and do it by themselves.
Cool room was full of fermenters bubbling away. They're friggin busy!

On the other hand, those double walled ss kettles looked sweet as

 

[Weizguy]

Hahahhahaha

The brew by u place here in adelaide (very friendly man, filled my co2 bottle for 30 bux) tried to convince me I need to start brewing with them for the time saving. Tried their pilsner, I could taste the effect of their 24 degree C ferment in there, everything gets done at 24C. Told him that, I can taste estery sweetness, on top of the lower attenuation, he was trying to convince me that the sweetness was due to using cascade hops!!!!

Even claimed that they add some hops to some brews to get the caramel taste happening. Dumbfounded. I've got nothing against extract brewing but they could use a fair injection of grey matter and facts.

By "caramel taste", I swear they mean diacetyl, as I tested at another brewbyu closer to me.
Was no point trying to tell the guy how to suck eggs, I thought, after my first attempt.