Save money on beer prices by brewing your own

Beer prices out of control

How does $0,40 cent per bottle of excellent home brewed beer sound to you? If you consider the average price of a $1,- per bottle, you know that you can save a lot of money by brewing your own beer. 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. But this investment 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. These beer kit packages go for a price between $25 to $30. Your per-bottle cost will run around $0.40 inclusive write down cost for the kit.

The ingredients make that the cost vary

Because of a bad growing season, the price of hob was extreme in 2007and went up to 26 dollar a pound, in the year 2000 the price of hob was about 2 dollar a pound. So, if you live in an area where you can grow your own hobs, 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.

The beer prices are not influenced by the kind of equipment you have

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.

You can also save money by loosing the cost of bottles and caps and to 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 two big hobbies, one is that he loves homemade beer brewing and the second is talking about it. On his website BrewingYourOwn.com he tells you all about beer brewing equipment and beer making supplies.