Let’s face it – beer can get expensive. Especially if you love beer.
How do we deal with this?
For a lot of people, and very recently, people have been learning about home beer brewing, and it’s a fantastic alternative. For the most part you can spend way less money for way more beer, and there are even more benefits that we’ll go into below. So if this sounds like something up your street, continue reading on.
The Cost Benefit – Home Beer Brewing Is Way Better
Making beer at home will end up being way cheaper because of the materials that are required. You are making it on a mass scale, whereas you generally buy beer at a store one at a time. They’re able to charge you a lot of money since it’s the consumer level. Buying things, and making it, in mass, gives you a huge advantage.
Here’s some proof: You know those times that you go to the bar and they have 50 cent beers? Why on earth would they do that? Are they still making money? You betcha. That’s probably much closer to their profit margin than the $3.00 that they normally charge, but you definitely can see how cheap it costs them to buy it from the supplier, and how much profit they can make per drink. In the end, it just paints a clear picture for us: it’s much cheaper to make beer than buy it at a store.
Can You Get Great Tasting Beer? Definitely.
Another common question and concern is the taste. Can you get something that tastes good, brewed from home? Yeah, you sure can.
It may take some experimentation, and maybe a little while – but you can definitely make beer that tastes amazing. In fact, there are some guides out there which basically tell you how people have made beer which surpasses what you would have at a store.
If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Commercial beer tries to make a lot of good tasting beer without spending a lot of materials per serving.
Imagine if you didn’t have that drawback? And we surely don’t. You can afford to pack your beer with whatever you want.
In the end, your beer should taste much richer than beer you buy at a store. That’s because you aren’t thinking about mass scaling and watering it down to sell more. You’re only thinking about taste, taste, taste.
Selling Your Own Beer? Maybe.
This is for you to decide, of course – but remember – a lot of the beer you buy at stoers were, one day, pitched to the local bar or diner. The Sam Adams beer, I believe, was a very publicized account of this. The founder took his beer from store to store, and got contracts to sell them. This grew over time, and now it’s a huge beer company
Could that happen for you? It’s possible. Do you want that? Only you can decide.
The key is starting to make your own beer, and seeing where that takes you. There are numerous kits available online, and we’ll probably get into a few of those and find out which ones are best for you to experiment with, along with what guides make a great companion and roadmap.
I hope this helps, we’ll get into a lot more detail in the future.
Thanks for reading!
Jack
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