Draft Beer Supplies
Draft Beer Supplies
The demand for aroma hops is growing every day, but the production of this very important beer ingredient is not growing at the same rate, this is the reason that the home brew costs are getting out of hand.
Keep your eye on the hidden costs
It all depends on what is already there when it comes to the initial home brew costs, this can make it a very cheap hobby or a money sucker. Another factor is what the quality of the bought equipment is. The ballpark figure you should think of is around $150. Keep in mind though that this is only for the equipment and does not include all the ingredients that you will need for a batch of beer. When it comes to ingredients and the costs an easy way of calculating is that it will cost you about $3 per six pack if you are going to make a five gallon batch of light body ale.
It is a bit problematic to do a good estimate on home brew costs because the price for the ingredients are not stable. A good example of this is the price for aroma hops, one of the main ingredients for beer, which has gone sky high because of a world wide shortage. A little while back, up to the year 2000 the price for hops was around $2 for every pound. These days, in 2007, the price for a pound was more in the region of $26 if you can get your hands on it. This fact is threatening to put a halt to home brewing.
Most of the big commercial brewers will have the price for their hops locked down in a contract with the supplier but in a few years they will see an increase as well. There needs to be a big increase in supply of aroma hops so the demand for commercial and home brewers are met and the price will again drop to a more normal one.
The stable factor
Lucky for us there are a lot of stable factors in home brew costs which is the equipment such as:
. a five gallon pot
. a hydrometer
. bottle sanitizer and topper
These have been very constant in price. When you start our with this hobby you should reserve about $150 for the initial hardware but that’s a minimum, you can, if you go wild, spend as much as $300 or more.
Keep watching your wallet
When you haven’t got that much money to spend then you should make a real afford to find the less expensive equipment. If you really think this will be a hobby that will last a long time then it would be wiser to save some more money first so you can buy the best hardware the first time round. When we take the rest of the needed items, like yeast, malt and bottle caps (not the hops), in account we are talking somewhere in the region of about $20 per five gallon batch. You could even reduce some of the returning home brew costs by putting the finished product in a keg and not use bottles. This way you don’t have to buy bottles and caps.
Remember why you do it
As you see you can keep the costs low by doing some smart buying or by leaving things out. Just remember that it’s a hobby that can be a lot of fun to do, alone but also with some of you friends. It doesn’t matter what hobby you have, they all cost money and if you save up you don’t have to miss out. When your friends like helping out with producing and drinking the beer then why not ask them to chip in?
The most important thing to remember is to have fun.
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Heineken BT10001 BeerTender Tubes, 10 Count $11.99 This Set of 10 Krups BeerTender Tubes will keep your beer fresh and delicious. Using a new tube with each new keg is recommended to ensure the perfect flavor every time…. |
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Maestro Homebrew Beer Equipment Kit w/ Auto Siphon $64.99 The Maestro Kit is perfect for the beginning brewer. Now upgraded with a Fermtec Auto Siphon, make transfers from the fermenter to the bottling bucket a simple task. Each Equipment Kit Includes: True Brew Handbook, 6.5 Gallon Primary Fermenting Bucket, 1 Lid Drilled & Grommet, 6.5 Gallon Bottling Bucket w/ Spigot, Fermometer Fermentation Thermometer, Fermtech Springless Bottle Filler, Fermtech 3/8… |
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Double Gauge Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Regulator $45.99 This is a durable, double gauge carbon dioxide pressure regulator to be used with carbon dioxide tanks. The non-adjustable shut-down safety is built into the body of the regulator where it cannot be removed or easily circumvented. In event of a failure of the regulator seat this safety will respond instantly, isolating the product container from potentially dangerous high pressure. The product con… |
Why do pubs not sell alcohol free beer and lager on draught?
We all know the problems alcohol causes in our towns and cities, and drink drivers etc, so why oh why does the government not do something about it. My question is simply this, cos it does make you wonder about peoples ability to enjoy themselves without getting pissed – This is hyperthetical cos it probably wont happen, but what if the breweries were to produce their beers, lagers and ciders with just a trace content of alcohol (or free entirely), and supply the pubs with it instead? Im not meaning for them to do it sneakily, but to advertise the fact openly. How many people would go down the pub do you think, if they couldnt get drunk so easily? Surely a pub is a meeting place to socialise with FRIENDS, or do people really just go to the pub to get drunk.
I welcome your comments and ideas on the matter
In response to the first comment, THAT is my point exactly. What is it with people who HAVE to have a drink in order to relax. It fascinates me
The market for alcohol-free beers and lagers is small, this there is no commercial incentive for brewers to produce the comestible. Guinness tried with Kaliber, and if Guinness cannot sell it, nobody can!
Umpteen and beyond breweries in the UK, breew beers that are fairly low in alcohol – Greene King IPA, Adnams Bitter, Banks’s Mild and Bank’s Bitter are examples of such beer.
The problem is two-fold, however.
1. Brewers and pub-owning companies (not neccessarily the same) have seen the youth market as very profitable. Therefore, they change their pubs into places that will attract the immature by appealing to that very market by offering such items as jugs of cheap vodka – a trick that prevents the sensible drinker from having any chance of knowing how much he/she has consumed.
2. Because of the focus on the youth market by the brewers and pub-owning companies, many pubs have become inaccesable to older drinkers – drinkers who could, by their example, show young drinkers how to drink responsibly. The community pub is certainly the best pub to meet friends and to get mildly ‘under the influence’ , but the number of these pubs are diminishing weekly, as publicans seek to make a profit from food sales to replace the money lost from drinkers who have been discouraged from frequenting these pubs. The Smoking Ban has not helped here.
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