Home Beer Brewing - Cost Effective?

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Home beer brewing is more a labor of love thanbuy your next beer ingredient kit to start another 6
anything else. Home beer brewing hobbyists love togallon batch for between $27 and $40.
experiment with different types of beers, they love-in general terms to brew 64 12oz bottles of beer
learning the art of brewing beer and they love tothe cheaper kits will cost you .42 cents per bottle
share their new batches with friends and relatives.and the most expensive beer kits will cost .63 cents
For the most part, home beer brewers are notper bottle.
overly concerned with the expense of creating their-if you go for a can of Hopped Wort and Dextrose
own beer. Some people however, do wonder ifor even table sugar you may get the costs down to
brewing your own beer at home is worth the30c a bottle.
expense. Follow along as we take look at a few ofHere are some other things to consider to lower
the factors and growing your own beer versusyour costs:
buying it at the local beer store.-If you don't want to buy a new equipment to make
First of all, if you're simply trying to better the pricesit at home you can use a U-brew facililty. These
that you get from the large brewers and theirlocations have all of the equipment and ingredients
products such as Old Milwaukee, Miller Genuine Draft,you need and a book of recipes for you to follow or
Labatt, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. or Miller Brewingyou can create your own. You do all of the work
Company, then you have to make a lot of beer toyourself just like with home equipment and then
overcome the sheer volume that these beercome back two or three weeks later to bottle your
companies make and market. They have thebrew and take it home.
economies of scale on their side and it will take a-Some people like to grow their own hops and that
while before you really start save money.can also lower your costs.
On the other hand, if you look at the specialty beers-Gluten free beers are expensive but necessary for a
are crafted beers then you can definitely save a lotceliac who loves beer. You can make homemade
of money by making your own homebrew beer. Andgluten free beer at a much lower cost while you
the unique aspect of bring your own beer is that,enjoy this great hobby.
once you understand the process and have some-get family and friends to start saving bottles for
practice, you can begin to tweak the recipes toyou, if you plan to bottle your beer. Keep in mind
create a beer that is unique and fits your taste budsthat you will need the kind of bottles that use pryoff
exactly. This is one of the most remarkable aspectscaps only (no threaded tops). and the good part is
of home beer brewing, the ability to create your ownthat you can recycle the bottles many times keeping
brand of beer.our costs down.
When it comes to some basic costs here is whatSo there you have it as far as costs are concerned
you are likely to see on costs when you start toin home beer brewing. If you do it right you can save
brew your own beer:a lot of money, especially if you and your friends
-a Home brewing kit generally costs about $100drink a lot of beer! But more than anything else,
including the ingredients. The normal fermenter willhome beer brewing hobbyists can use the money
make 6 gallons of beer.they save to buy a different kind of beer kit to
-6 gallons of beer is the equivalent of 64 12ozexperience a brand-new taste. Whatever your
bottles. 64 bottles for $100, comes to about 1.56 areason for home beer brewing, the love of a good
beer.beer is probably at the top of everyone's list.