How Much Do You Spend On Ingredients?

[Steve]

Just wondering how much you spend on brew ingredients and related equipment a month? I do a minimum of 4 brews a month and at a guess probably spend around $150.00 a month. This includes caps, malt for starters, spare dry yeast etc etc.
Cheers
Steve

P.S. Ross feel free not to answer, you might give yourself a heart attack once you work out how much those 12 brews in Jan cost

 

[DrewCarey82]

I am only trying to brew three-four months a year then relax and enjoy it.

Am a kit and bits man. I go through a wholesaler so get the premo kits cheap.

2 X KITS - $20
2 X BREW BOOSTERS - $13
2 X HOP BAGS - $4
CAPS ECT - $3-4

$41 A WEEK $164 A MONTH, $656 A YEAR

ASSUMING I DRINK A CARTON A WEEK - $33 X 52 = $1716.

MINIMUM OF $1200 SAVING FOR DRINKING GREAT BEERS AND USUALLY I'D GO THROUGH 1.5 CASES A WEEK.

God bless HB

 

[tangent]

$1.80 a KG (averaged over cheap base and more expensive imported) for malted grain x 4.5KG = $8.10
60gms hops in bulk from NZ ~$1.00
LPG ~ $5
Yeast from Coopers Pale ~ free if you already drink it.

23L real beer for $14.10 or under a tenner without the gas
:lol:

 

[Ross]

Total cost of a brew day is typically from $20 to $25 dollars a batch.

So approx $160 a month - This doesnt account for toys & kegging costs though, which blow the budget a fair bit higher...

cheers Ross...

 

[sluggerdog]

Costs me around $15 for grain, hops and gas per brew. 2 brews a month

Haven't bought yeats for around 4 months now (liquid)

$30 a month for 2 kegs.

 

[Jye]

6kg of grain @ $2.50 (doesn't matter what type) = $15

150 - 200g of hops = $5 (thank god for the hop buy)

yeast = $2

plus LPG, co2 and hundreds of hours thinking about brewing

 

[AndrewQLD]

5 kilo of grain= $6 thanks to bulk buy
100g hops = $1.30 thanks to bulk buy
gas = $5 at a guess
Liquid yeast = $2 max per brew after culturing and splitting
Total = $14.30 x 4 brews a month = $57.20 less than 2 cases of beer

Sure is better than buying it.

Cheers
Andrew
Edit: forgot to calculate in the $100s of dollars spent on equipement and books :blink:

 

[warrenlw63]

I don't add mine up. :lol:

My wife could find this post and duly kill me. h34r:

Warren -

 

[jor8]

10-15$ for the can of brew
dextrose .. get through work
malt....get through work
yeast comes with the can

prob do 4-6 batches a month.... so i build up stock to begin with.. i just started..

regs john

 

[johnno]

Usually costs me between $10-12 and $20 depending on what malts I use.
Once I get a mill and crack my own it will be even less.

Sure is better than buying it.

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And tastes just as good if not better. :beerbang:


johnno

 

[bindi]

6kg of grain @ $2.50 (doesn't matter what type) = $15

150 - 200g of hops = $5 (thank god for the hop buy)

yeast = $2

plus LPG, co2 and hundreds of hours thinking about brewing

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Yep <_< this just about sums it up for me about the same

 

[Fingerlickin_B]

Can't use the 50L fermenter right now (space & heat issues), so currently spending about $40 per week & 1/2 using two smaller ones.

That's 44L of beer per $40...that's just under 91c per litre of beer...could be cheaper, but it's good enough for me :chug:

PZ.

 

[Screwtop]

I look at it this way, night at the club 2 - 3 hr session $30 - $40. Each brew from $22 for AG to $40 for top end kits and bits. Get two weeks drinking a few each evening from a brew. 2 hrs or 2 weeks! That's justification enough for me. As far as the brewing equipment, well I would spend about the same to equip myself for any hobby.

 

[wee stu]

I don't add mine up. :lol:

My wife could find this post and duly kill me. h34r:

Warren -

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Me too, I refuse to answer cos I believe these posts may be held as blackmail aganst us and released to our loved ones at a later date h34r: .

"But dear, it is still a lot less than Pedro has been spending on his beer."

awrabest, stu

 

[Steve]

Nicely put Screwtop!

Reason I asked was Ive got the prices for the ingredients for my first partial and it came to about $43.00 and then the next brew after that works out to be about $20 (tin of extract being the largest portion of this) because youve got half the ingredients left over from the first purchase. Bargain! Gotta love it hey :beer:

Cheers
Steve

 

[johnno]

I don't add mine up. :lol:

My wife could find this post and duly kill me.

Warren -

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Me too, I refuse to answer cos I believe these posts may be held as blackmail aganst us and released to our loved ones at a later date h34r: .

"But dear, it is still a lot less than Pedro has been spending on his beer."

awrabest, stu

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Bad luck for any bloke/blokette in this situation.

Mrs johnno encourages me to spend what I want. Not that i do that anyway as finances dont really allow it.

If anything I'm the spendthrift in the family.

johnno

 

[BoilerBoy]

Moneys pretty tight round here at the moment and I have just forked out for an Ag set up late last year which raised a few eye brows.

My wife is very supportive, but realistically I'm on a rationed supply.

She constantly informs though that "there's plenty of money to be made down the docks if your that desperate"! :huh: :unsure:

Cheers BB

 

[Trent]

Hmmm
I dunno how the hell I am doing it for so much! :blink: . I use Maris Otter base malt, at about $81 a bag, so thats about $3.25/kg, use about 4.5-5kg of that, .5-1kg specialty malts at about $4 a kg, so that is about $18 on malts, maybe about $10 or so on hops, approx $3 on DME for starters and about $5-7 on LPG. An IPA will use closer to $22 on malt and $20 on hops, so maybe I need to start bulk buying rather than getting it on a need to buy basis! So, anywhere from $30 to $50 per batch. A bit more than the average Joe, but I am still pretty happy with that. Oh, and I brew twice a month.
All the best
Trent
PS $1.30 for 100g hops :super: , thats some pretty serious savings, no wonder you bulk buy!

 

[tangent]

SWMBO was with me in bunnings while i grabbed the 15m of annealed copper tubing today for my weekend project.
"It's for beer." isn't a very good reason anymore <_< but i backed it up with "or I could go back to buying 1&1/2 cartons of Pale a week at ~$35-$40 each?" :lol:

 

[wee stu]

I refuse to answer cos I believe these posts may be held as blackmail aganst us and released to our loved ones at a later date h34r: .

"But dear, it is still a lot less than Pedro has been spending on his beer."

awrabest, stu

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Bad luck for any bloke/blokette in this situation.

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Luckily I am only joking. When I found a new 30L urn for under $200 bucks, it was me arguing for second hand "bargains".
Sadly. my wife won the day, and now my 30L HLT is shiny bright, gleaming and new

She is beginning to get suspicious about all the books invading "her" study space though. :