Charging For Your Brews
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Well I'd visit ya and drink all your dark ales, but your always in Bundy these days - so I have to make my own.
Tell me about it, and I dont even get time to drink the bundy beers. Although when I'm up here at the end of next month I will be trying to drink their beers (might even have a couple of cents for their tip jars) and I promise I wont do a chappo this time Kev.
On an upside when I get home tmorw arv I get to clean the brewer and crush almost 25kg of grain(marga will not be happy) ready for a double 60L batch brewday on saturday.
sorry to OP for the off topic but I did mention tip jars
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More often than not, people coming to a day-in-the-shade event at my place will bring along some snacks, or a bottle or two.
I personally brew because I like the craft, the methods, the process. I pay to put ingredients through my setup in the various ways that I'm experimenting with, and I happen to end up with some free tasty beers at the end of it, a large fraction of which I give away. If my mates come over to share those free beers with me, then all the better. Some will do the same for me, others can't or won't, but that's fine.
A tip jar suggests that you're doing something above-and-beyond being a mate and sharing the love. Feedback and occasional compliments fill my tip jar just fine.
I personally brew because I like the craft, the methods, the process. I pay to put ingredients through my setup in the various ways that I'm experimenting with, and I happen to end up with some free tasty beers at the end of it, a large fraction of which I give away. If my mates come over to share those free beers with me, then all the better. Some will do the same for me, others can't or won't, but that's fine.
A tip jar suggests that you're doing something above-and-beyond being a mate and sharing the love. Feedback and occasional compliments fill my tip jar just fine.
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I've given my girlfriends brother a few 6ers for 5$ in the past. If we have a beer together he can have a couple at no charge but I (and i think he does) feel that giving them away for him to take to a party/whatever is taking advantage of the situation a bit as its a one way street.
It depends on the situation. if your place is becoming a "free pub" then I'd support the idea for people to drop some change in there. if its you inviting friends over i'd say dont, but if its an expected thing for people to drop by at a certain time for some beers it could be worthwhile.
The worst thing is you cant really ask people as then they will feel guilty and do it out of guilt instead of being happy to do it that way.
If people are coming by with anything to share then i wouldnt. maybe organise for pizza or a bbq ect when people are over that is organised by the others.
It depends on the situation. if your place is becoming a "free pub" then I'd support the idea for people to drop some change in there. if its you inviting friends over i'd say dont, but if its an expected thing for people to drop by at a certain time for some beers it could be worthwhile.
The worst thing is you cant really ask people as then they will feel guilty and do it out of guilt instead of being happy to do it that way.
If people are coming by with anything to share then i wouldnt. maybe organise for pizza or a bbq ect when people are over that is organised by the others.
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I'll spell it programme till I die. I don't care what the government says. And it is still gaol too.
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I'm a brewer not a publican.
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The more my friends drink the more i can Brew, Bring it on
They do usually bring snacks and maybe some of their own brewed beer so all is square, no money involved EVER
What they drink here i drink at their place next week. It all squares up
Kleiny
They do usually bring snacks and maybe some of their own brewed beer so all is square, no money involved EVER
What they drink here i drink at their place next week. It all squares up
Kleiny
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Mind you, I brew & charge a mate of mine.
It works like this; he's an ex AG brewer, now living in an apartment and has a busy job so doesn't have the time nor the room to brew. But he does have a kegerator. So every couple of months or so he pays me $50 to fill up a 19L corny and gives me a hand on brew day. In the end I get the remainder 3 or 4L out of the batch for myself to bottle.
It probably works out about even when you work out ingredients / time / electricity etc put in. Im happy because I get to brew more which I love doing, gives me more experience and 3 - 4L of beer for nothing. He's happy because he gets a keg full of craftbeer quality brew at homebrew prices.
Yes, this arrangement is probably not-so-legal, but at least it's a victimless crime, right?
It works like this; he's an ex AG brewer, now living in an apartment and has a busy job so doesn't have the time nor the room to brew. But he does have a kegerator. So every couple of months or so he pays me $50 to fill up a 19L corny and gives me a hand on brew day. In the end I get the remainder 3 or 4L out of the batch for myself to bottle.
It probably works out about even when you work out ingredients / time / electricity etc put in. Im happy because I get to brew more which I love doing, gives me more experience and 3 - 4L of beer for nothing. He's happy because he gets a keg full of craftbeer quality brew at homebrew prices.
Yes, this arrangement is probably not-so-legal, but at least it's a victimless crime, right?
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So you've had Chappo over at your place too hey Muggus?
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Not really. I've had a few issues lately with limping and I think it may be related. I've also had my washing machine break down seven times in the last month.
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An arrangement between friends is not the same as the open market. I quote the case of Sir Francis Drawbanks vs John Quigsley esquire in Hampshire in 1754, where Quigsley's friends put a halfpenny each for a share of a pig on a spit. Drawbanks wanted Quigsley executed for tax evasion. "The scum riseth against the cream," quoth Drawbanks. "Socialism doth be ahead of its time." But Drawbanks didn't win his case, because the magistrate was drunk and didn't care. "I like pork," said the magistrate. Drawbanks felt that this kind of case was offtopic and would be the 'ruination of our fair site.'
Edit - sorry but that belgian on an empty stomach...
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Im just stoked when my mates ask me for another glass before i offer them one
means im doing something right!
What he said. I really enjoy handing a glass to my mates and hearing the responses. Unlike some I share the good ones, not the shite ones.
Yeah It all starts here.
And before you know it you'll have a fully functional bar in your garage. Word will eventually spread beyond your circle of buddies and it'll become a local hotspot with randoms off the street coming in every night. You'll eventually become too busy being a full time barman to sit around and drink. Your wife wont be happy about it at first, But then she'll decide to start singing for the crowd in scantily dressed attire. All the guys will be whistling and carrying on... This will eventually make you jealous. So you'll tell your wife to stop. But she enjoys the limelight! She's not stopping for you. Then all of your buddies wives will get pissed off that they're all at your house every night drinking and perving at your missus. So you decide to invite them over to drag them all out and get them away from your wife and close down your garage bar thats getting out of control..... and then.... wait. What am I saying? That was just an episode of Family Guy I watched the other day.
Never mind.
In Australia it's jail. Not that I would know anything about JAIL. Unless you meant he was scoring a goal, goal, goal.
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The vast majority of my enjoyment of brewing comes from creating great beer (some of the time) which friends taste and say "This is great stuff!".
Brewing is a hobby, and with any hobby there are costs involved (Surfing (boards/wax/fuel), Crafts (glue/paper/paint) etc.) If you became an awesome surfer, you wouldn't expect your friends to have to pay to watch you, or donate funds so that you could afford better equipment. Just as if you were knitting heaps of scarves and saying "Here, try this scarf on! It's for you", you wouldn't expect or ask for money.
The scenario completely changes the minute one of your friends asks you to brew some beer for them, and then it's completely up to you whether you charge for ingredients + some for your time, or do it for free because you're great mates.
Brewing is a hobby, and with any hobby there are costs involved (Surfing (boards/wax/fuel), Crafts (glue/paper/paint) etc.) If you became an awesome surfer, you wouldn't expect your friends to have to pay to watch you, or donate funds so that you could afford better equipment. Just as if you were knitting heaps of scarves and saying "Here, try this scarf on! It's for you", you wouldn't expect or ask for money.
The scenario completely changes the minute one of your friends asks you to brew some beer for them, and then it's completely up to you whether you charge for ingredients + some for your time, or do it for free because you're great mates.
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had a bloke the other week who tried my beer and decided he liked it so much he wanted to buy more off me. he couldnt understand when i said ill just give him a couple of bottles for free ,it actually made him feel like he was being stingy .i just had to explain that if someone really enjoys my beer that much then thats more than enough of a trade for me.much more satisfying than money.
