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How does $0,40 cent per bottle of excellent home brewed beer sound to you? With an average of beer prices over $1,- per bottle, brewing your own beer is cheap and can save you a lot of money. You need to be smart in this time of financial crisis and if you like to make things yourself the beer prices of your own product will amaze you. You do something you enjoy, save money doing so and have a great tasting beer, what more do you want?
To brew a large amount of beer (six gallons) for real good beer prices you best buy a proper beer brewing kit. This is your biggest investment and will cost you about $100,- to $120,- this also includes the ingredients for your first batch. However this is an investment that will start making you money before you know it.
The beer prices of your own homemade beer depend on the ingredients you will use for the next batches. You can go to your local home brew store and buy everything separate but you can also buy so called beer kit packages. These packages contain everything you need to make the a new batch of beer and they are available in many of your favorite flavors. These beer kit packages go for a price between $25 to $30. Your per-bottle cost will run around $0.40 inclusive write down cost for the kit.
Cost of ingredients can vary
In 2000 the price of hob was about 2 dollar a pound, in 2007 the price was extreme and went up to 26 dollar a pound, this was because of a bad growing season. We advise you to start growing your own hobs if you live in an area where that is possible. This means the beer prices varies also over the years and that also counts for your own beer prices. But still in all those years brewing your own beer has been cheaper than buying it. Although it might be saving you just a little bit of money.
The beer prices are not influenced by the kind of equipment you have
Well of course you need to make much more beer to pay of beer brewing equipment of over $300,- then you do when you buy a kit from around $100,- but the prices of equipment have not increased much over the years, this means that the cost of investment have remained fairly constant. So the best you can do is keep the investment as low as you can.
Something else you can do is to eliminate the cost of bottles and caps and put your finished beer in a keg. You do need to invest in a couple of kegs and a tap but you can get better beer prices if you divided these cost up among the number of times you can use these kegs and taps. This way you can actually reduce the beer prices per gallon even further. But at a price of less than 0.50 cents per bottle of excellent homemade beer who needs to?
Drew Brown has two big hobbies, one is that he loves homemade beer brewing and the second is talking about it. On his website BrewingYourOwn.com he tells you all about beer brewing equipment and beer making supplies.