Brewing your own beer to save money on beer prices

Beer prices out of control

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 like, save money and have a great batch of beer to enjoy, what more do you want?

If you want to brew good quality beer, in a large amount for a real good price your best option is to 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 do two things buy everything separate in a local home brew store or 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. The price of these beer kit packages for 6 gallons are 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. So if you can grow your own hobs in your area we advise you to do so. Over the years beer prices vary and that will also count for your own beer prices. But still in all those years brewing your own beer has been cheaper than buying it. Even though it might just be a little money that you will save.

Beer prices do not depend on the equipment

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 one hobby, home made beer brewing and he loves to share it with the world. On his website BrewingYourOwn.com he tells you all about beer brewing equipment and beer making supplies.