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Post #1 made 15 years ago
by Yeasty
Well its nearly here in the uk,,the £3.00 pub pint and VAT has just gone up to 20% :evil:

If there wasn't a better time to star Brewing then its now. I've just brewed 40pints for about £13.50
or 34pence a pint (not counting the electric which I really should be able to calculate)
And thats not including the pure joy and satisfaction of brewing your own which in my book is priceless :thumbs:
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Post #2 made 15 years ago
by PistolPatch
Yeasty wrote:And thats not including the pure joy and satisfaction of brewing your own which in my book is priceless :thumbs:
Too right Yeasty. If we factored in our labour, the costs would go up a bit but most of the labour is easy or enjoyable and, at the end, you can brew pretty much any beer you can get on the shelf or off the tap at often a higher quality on even the first go.

Great to see you are enjoying it all :peace:
PP
Last edited by PistolPatch on 04 Jan 2011, 19:53, edited 5 times in total.
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Post #3 made 15 years ago
by EoinMag
I just calculated my last beer cost me a little bit less at 33c a pint and our pint prices here in Ireland, especially Dublin, are a lot higher than yours in UK for a long time now. I passed a bar yesterday where they were advertising cheap pints at 3.80 all day for Guinness. An expensive pint here costs in the region of 5 or 6 euros.
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Post #4 made 15 years ago
by hashie
Beersmith calculates my brews to be around $23 per brew, so around $1 per litre of beer drunk.

Labour can't be counted when it's a hobby :)
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Post #6 made 15 years ago
by Ralph
Much bought beer is over- priced and I'm loathe to cough up for it like that, plus I'm just not that big on a great lot of it anyway. If I didn't brew my own, I very much doubt I'd be buying the same volume. But I get a particular thrill out of it which, as we all know, has quite a value in itself, plus being able to make exactly what I want is so important.
I'm just glad I didn't have to invest loads of money on finding out that home- brewed beer is as good if not much better than much of the bought stuff, imagine if I bought a shiny turn- key brewing setup and then found the beer was still crap? No, my brewery cost me just a stockpot and a few bibs and bobs and it has repaid me in spades. That's due in no small part to many of the good folk around here!
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