Cost of your homebrew pint

[paulpj26]

I worked out it cost me about 30p a pint, it also depends on how strong your beer is and whether you use liquid yeast or dry yeast etc

Liquid yeasts, apart from giving you a better beer, can work out cheaper if split the vial to make several starters.

I agree but I'm lazy :lol:

I should learn to do it really, like you said it makes better beer :thumb: My only concern is keeping the yeast in good condition for the next brew. :

 

[StrangeBrew]

Have done two kits since returning to home brewing and did a thorough costing on both, even counting costs of sterilising materials and beer losses with the sludge left in the fermenter etc...

Youngs Bitter using brewing sugar came to 29p / pint

Edme Stout using dark brown sugar 33p / pint


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[pjbiker]

My all grain set-up works out about 30-35p/pint.
I've kept a record of everything I spend and amount brewed over a few years including equipment :geek: .
Works out about 85p/pint including what I've spent on kit, though that is 'drinkable' pints. When stuff goes wrong and I have to ditch it, the price per pint goes up a bit

 

[shearclass]

I'm running at about £1 per pint. I have alog of all my expenditure, as i the reason i started to do this was to save money. Just so happens that I find it realy interesting and haev a great new hobby!

Started brewing from kits in January this year. I have all the equipment i need to make beer and wine now, so that price will fall the more i brew.

 

[Aleman]

If I considered the cost of the brewery (. . . ies ) then it is probably somewhere in the region of around £5.25 per pint

However, like any good entrepreneur, The brewing equipment is amortised over 3 years so really should be discounted. . . . In which case I'm probably somewhere in the region of around 15p per pint :grin:

 

[trophybitter]

costs me £10 for the brew and £1 for bag of sugar,makes 40 pints so 25p per pint near enough.someone once told me that it costs a brewery 6p to make a pint and the rest goes to tax man,how far true this is ive no idea.

 

[seanipops]

Assuming I've put all the correct prices in Beersmith (and that's a bit of an assumption) I reckon I'm coming in somewhere between 18 and 33p a pint but that doesn't factor in utilities or the cost of gas to dispense.

I started out brewing to save money but now I aim to brew quality beer knowing it will cost a fraction of what it'll cost in a pub. I miss the pub but visiting it as regularly as I want to just isn't an option for me.

 

[Falconi]

[quote="46.philh":i72yqlef]When did you start brewing Steve ?

Not long enough ago to have drunk that lot healthily. About 18 months ago, but I do have about 350 pints brewed that I've not drunk yet.[/quote:i72yqlef]

Steve if you need a hand :drink: :mrgreen:

£10.50 Coopers Lager
£4 Enhancer

so 36p a pint @ 40 pints

 

[Moley]

I've never bothered to try to take gas meter readings because there are usually other people in the house taking showers etc., and neither are we on a water meter.

Other than that, I have costed my brews from about 25p a pint for a basic bitter up towards 40p a pint for my higher gravity ‘chewy’ beers.

Wines have worked out anywhere from 25p to £1.20 per bottle, but typically in the region of 50-60p.

I may occasionally have a pint in a pub, but supermarket booze expenditure is averaging just marginally above zero, we haven't bought any wine for a couple of years and I only buy a bottle conditioned beer if I want the yeast.