What's ya cost saver?

[Leon103]

Your DIPA will score well with its 5th generation hops

Those were on it's 3rd gen. Air dried, checked for rot and thrown in. They pick up so much flavour from previous brews. They are like little sponges of goodness.

 

[roboto]

Those were on it's 3rd gen. Air dried, checked for rot and thrown in. They pick up so much flavour from previous brews. They are like little sponges of goodness.

Fascinating process, I kept the last 2 dry hops I did by tipping my bags out into a Tupperware container and bunging it in the freezer. Was going to try bittering something with them. Any tips on how much to use compared to normal?

 

[Nidger]

I reuse the beer. My urine is collected, filtered and then distilled. Waste products sold to a local scientist. The resultant water then added back to my kits. Only a slight tang.... Would never reuse hops though- how ridiculous!

Remind me not to come to your house for a curry

 

[Jim Brewster]

First time I dry hopped my next thought after bottling was if they could be used for bittering the next brew, haven't tried it yet but next time I will use some of the dry hops to the following boil as a trial

I reuse yeast every other brew, seems a waste to throw them away while they're still healthy and hungry for sugars

 

[Darren Jeory]

Reusing yeast. I’ve also never bought a new bottle. Have about 100 swing tops bought from Facebook for £10 and various commercial bottles (only the ones that the label will soak off!)

Similar...I have family that own a hotel so I collect 500ml bottles from them, strip labels, sanitise and reuse. I also sometimes buy a case of beers keep the bottles and the box and put all the beers i make back in the box for easy storage

 

[bobukbrewer]

obadiah - which retailer supplies 25 kg of pale malt etc for under £20 ?

 

[531Man]

My best cost saving is, I’m not recycling fewer bottles or plastic bottles.

Hi chillipickle,
I realise you are probably joshing here, but I'm having difficulty understanding the meaning of this.
By, "I'm not recycling fewer bottles" do you mean you are recycling MORE bottles, as it is a type of double negative?
Or was it a spell checker thing, or maybe did something happen to the punctuation to change the meaning ?
Please understand I'm not trying to be difficult here, I would simply like to know what the joke was (honest!).
Regards,
Robin.

 

[yrhendystu]

After brewing a beer kit I'll reuse the slurry for a ginger beer. So the cost is the ginger and whatever fruit I add. Usually I've used Lidl premium lemonade rather than water as it's already sugary and I reuse the bottles. But this weekend I'll be bottling my first batch just using water. My shed smells amazing right now so can't wait to drink the trial jar.

Assuming it's gone OK I figure this one will be drunk in May and cost ~£5 for 5 gallons.

I also want to get a few demi johns to test out different flavour sodas.

 

[ChrisR73]

Hop reuse is surely a wind up!?

I’ve done it once - literally bottled a hoppy pale ale and re-used the slurry as my base for a bread ale - so dirt cheap. Even adding more Citra to dry hop it cost me less than a fiver for just short of 40 bottles.

 

[Manners]

Remind me not to come to your house for a curry

Oh its OK, I dont reuse my curry!

 

[Neil Whittaker]

So that I have this correct in my head, when your talking about reuse hops, I assume this is limited to leaf hops? Remove them from the dry hop and put them in as bittering for the next brew.

 

[Saisonator]

I ferment in a keg linked to a serving keg which purges it with CO2 and I pressure ferment which carbonates by beer while fermenting.
So my only savings are on CO2.

 

[Leon103]

So that I have this correct in my head, when your talking about reuse hops, I assume this is limited to leaf hops? Remove them from the dry hop and put them in as bittering for the next brew.

Pop pellets in bags. They turn to mush. After use, freeze them and then just chuck them into your next brew.

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

obadiah - which retailer supplies 25 kg of pale malt etc for under £20 ?

We buy in bulk from the malster - we combine our needs and have a 40bag pallet delivered roughly every 3 months

We bypass the retailer

People then collect from CW11

This is why collaboration is so key

Don't know where you live but if you are near enough to us join our group - if not why not start your own local buying group?

 

[BrewMeHappy]

My cost saver is thin cheapo bleach which I dilute and use to sanitise all of my stuff.

 

[Obadiah Boondoggle]

Our understanding of the road map out of covid is that we should all be free again to travel by April

We, therefore, are planning to buy early April ish - so please let me have your interest by pm for 25kg & 3 kg bags

https://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/threads/april-2021-north-west-midlands-malt-group-buy.92281/

 

[Drunkula]

Maltmiller has 50g of calcium chloride flakes for £1.50. I bought a kilogram for £2.38 and it comes in a really cool box :

Spoiler

And yes, that's genuinely what I use and I'll do all the crybabying for you to save you the bother - wehhhh, wehhhhh!!

 

[MagnusTS]

My top money saving tip is not to browse the Homebrewforum website late at night.

Ooo, I think I need a PartyStar tap and some mini-kegs.
Hmm, those shiny fermenters look really nice.
Must try one of those Dark Farm min-kegs.
Kegerator... lovely, yes please.

This website is bankrupting me.

Fun tho

 

[prog99]

So that I have this correct in my head, when your talking about reuse hops, I assume this is limited to leaf hops? Remove them from the dry hop and put them in as bittering for the next brew.

Interesting read
https://beerandbrewing.com/elements-of-beer-recycling-hops-in-the-brewhouse/

 

[Joust]

Hop reuse is surely a wind up!?

From above

Overall, spent dry hops retained 77 percent of alpha acids.
Overall, spent dry hops retained 51 percent of total oil.