How Much Does Your Home Brewed Beer Cost A Litre To Make ?

[MVZOOM]

Dont swear here mike.

cheers
johnno

Sorry Johnno. Cant believe I actually said that. h34r:

 

[chris.taylor.98]

How do you guys keep the costs so low!!!

With just one smack pack ($15) and gas for the burner (~$6) I'm already up to 90c/l.

Usually costs me at least 1.80/l even if I reuse the yeast 5 times.

 

[Kai]

Kai are you sure you are not in denial ?

have you been going over the top with those expensive ajuncts , the Begian Candy sugar at nine bucks a kilo , the sixteen dollar phial of exotic yeast , the imported malts and the fancy Ph adjusters and yeast nutrients . phew those alone would put a dollar fifty on a litre .

Pumpy

Dollar fifty a litre? Needless extravagance! My adjuncts come from the hippie store, my sugar from CSR, my phials are milked across many brews, my pH adjusted through prayer and my yeast fed with love.

 

[Thommo]

Sometimes under a dollar per litre...but never over two. I'm happy with that.

Thommo.

 

[Uncle Fester]

The BIG cost is the equipment. I've just put together the worlds most tight arse All Grain setup and I've still spent over a hundred dollars on the equipment so far.

A little OT, but I beat $100 bux.

Mashtun $5.00 from Revolve. False bottom made up from crap I had in the shed

50lt Electric Kettle (doubles as HLT) $50.00 inc delivery from Evilbay

Sorry to black-cat though....

Fester

Ps: Hope to have developed and deployed a RIMS for the $5.00 mash-tun for sub $40 as well - will post results if worth posting...

Fess.

 

[Tony]

ok

50 liter batch

average 10 KG malt @ $1.70/kg

about 180g hops @ $6/90g

yeast....... i get a good 3 brews from a liquid yeast so $5/brew worst case

gas: $4

elecrtricty for firmentation, water, ect :$2 at the most

thats:

17 + 12 + 5 + 4 + 2

$40 for 50 liters

thats 80 cents / liter

Thats $7.20 a carton (80c/1000ml=0.08c/ml
0.08c*375ml=30c/stubby
30c*24= $7.2 / carton
$40/50 liter keg

cheap in my books

premium beer at $45/careton is $168/50 liter keg

thats 1/4 price

yeah and little johny cuts taxes....... mmmmmm

he needs something for his 6.8% pay rise with no loss of entitlemants

prick

sorry......... back to beer

its definatly cheaper

cheers

 

[Uncle Fester]

yeah and little johny cuts taxes....... mmmmmm

he needs something for his 6.8% pay rise with no loss of entitlemants

prick

Don't forget the Super scheme as well.....

(Wish I could retire after 8 years with an indexed pension)


[I would love to upgrade the reference of "Prick", but I don't want to offend Braufrau]


Fester

 

[matti]

I spent $36 a LHB for the last ingredients.
this was with a $11 sediment tap for my cube.
That is 25 $ for 23L .
If I decide to dump next brew one current yeast cake, that will be another $8 saved.
It would equate to $17/23L= 74c/L.

Thats called fiddeling with the number LOL
give me a pay rise I'll save you

 

[mika]

Never run the numbers (too scary) but I split liquid yeast about 6 ways to bring it down to the cost of dried yeast. That said not fac toring in capital equipment costs we're talking ~$40 for a 20L batch and that's buying the malt crushed from the LHBS, so potential saving. If you work it out, 20L or a keg is fairly close to two cartons. So if we're looking at 2 cartons of LCPA at between $50-60 each, and I'm making an equivalent for ~$40 (say $50 per brew to capture all the costs I'm not thinking of) I'm still in front.....and I'm having fun doing it, where I'd otherwise be spending money doing something else. Think the real saving can be calculated from the "hidden" expenses of NOT brewing beer.

 

[andreic]

I reckon around $1.50 - $1.80 / L for me give or take including gas and postage for ingredients. A grain mill and buying bulk ingredients sometime in the future will shave a large portion of my per-brew costs. I think a grain mill is now next item on the wish list... But its such fun and the beers are getting better and better so the cost is irrelevant...

cheers,

Andrei

 

[DJR]

$10 to $16 bucks per 23L batch here depending on ingredients used including gas, yeast etc

That makes between $0.43 per L and $0.69 per L :beerbang:

 

[blackbock]

How do you guys keep the costs so low!!!

With just one smack pack ($15) and gas for the burner (~$6) I'm already up to 90c/l.

Usually costs me at least 1.80/l even if I reuse the yeast 5 times.

Chris, you're obviously not brewing BIG ENOUGH batches!

 

[Lukes]

I do 50 L batches @ under a $1.00 / L.
I try to bulk buy base malt & split yeast.

 

[Stuster]

I'm with the don't care to think about it too hard crowd. It's not that I have money to burn or don't care about the cost, it's just that worrying too much about the cost can be dangerous. Your main cost in brewing (especially AG) is your time. If you take 5 hours to make a brew, worrying over the cost too much might mean you decide not to add a particular ingredient in case it adds a couple of bucks to the cost. But if that ingredient adds to your enjoyment of 50 beers, then would you be glad when you are drinking it that you have saved those few cents per beer?

Quality over quantity. :super:

Or is it quality in quantity I get confused. :lol:

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

Quality over quantity. :super:

Or is it quality in quantity I get confused. :lol:

Quality *and* quantity - when I want it, where I want it (dammit!)

Another reason why this pursuit is so good, it can be pretty much whatever you want it to be.

 

[boingk]

Stuster & SMOIT - now we're talking! I mean, with 180 longies of delectable beer around...I find its the best of both worlds! :beerbang:

 

[Adamt]

I'm on the "don't really care" bandwagon. As long as it's costing less than the $50 a carton that decent beer costs (which I'm sure I'm well under), nothing else really matters.. and gives me a reason to waste an entire afternoon brewing and edumacating my beer tasting palate.

 

[Pumpy]

I'm with the don't care to think about it too hard crowd. It's not that I have money to burn or don't care about the cost, it's just that worrying too much about the cost can be dangerous. Your main cost in brewing (especially AG) is your time. If you take 5 hours to make a brew, worrying over the cost too much might mean you decide not to add a particular ingredient in case it adds a couple of bucks to the cost. But if that ingredient adds to your enjoyment of 50 beers, then would you be glad when you are drinking it that you have saved those few cents per beer?

Quality over quantity. :super:

Or is it quality in quantity I get confused. :lol:

Stu , you just get carried away,

bet you have the Mag wheels on your highly polished red racing car ,Chromed rocker plate cover , chequer plate border behind the rego plates , Bright fluffy die hanging from mirror .

Affluence its called when you dont count the cost ,

not effluent ,

Affluence . B)


Pumpy

 

[Stuster]

bet you have the Mag wheels on your highly polished red racing car ,Chromed rocker plate cover , chequer plate border behind the rego plates , Bright fluffy die hanging from mirror .

Yep. That's my sort of car as anybody from the ISB crowd can tell you.

Here's a picture of my pride and joy, Pumpy.

 

[SpillsMostOfIt]

Yep. That's my sort of car as anybody from the ISB crowd can tell you.

Here's a picture of my pride and joy, Pumpy.

I've got a big dent in the back of my car that matches that exactly!