
I was wondering what the latest price is for our brewing per pint?
Mine if 35p ish on average anyone agree or are yours dearer or cheaper
Thanks
You wouldn't do that if you was running a business so why would you do it for your homebrew...? I'm no accountant but you would only need to account for the depreciation of your assets over their anticipated lifespan and the interest to service the debt/ capital investment of those assets... (or something like that...)Beer O'Clock wrote:<<Spoiler Alert>>
Looks like somebody forgot to include their stock and start up figures. :
Actually it does. If you are costing production (and my wife is the expert in this field as she is in the business), that's exactly what you do. It is the overall cost to create the final product. All of your investments are relevent.danbrew wrote:You wouldn't do that if you was running a business so why would you do it for your homebrew...? I'm no accountant but you would only need to account for the depreciation of your assets over their anticipated lifespan and the interest to service the debt/ capital investment of those assets... (or something like that...)Beer O'Clock wrote:<<Spoiler Alert>>
Looks like somebody forgot to include their stock and start up figures. :
Spending £200.00 on equipment and ingredients doesn't make your first 20 pints cost £10 each...
About £6.00 for malt, £2.00 for hops and a quid for yeast. I think about the quid for electric and sometimes add it in and sometimes don't.gnutz2 wrote:Just rename the thread, how much a pint "FOR THE INGREDIENTS"
No, but we're all using different equipment and paying different amounts for it and it is a hobby so to have a more meaningful discussion on what it costs to brew a pint the variable costs i.e. ingredients, is a more interesting, and comparable, number to declare. If we included absolutely everything we get further away from a meaningful and more interesting comparison.Beer O'Clock wrote:All expenditure adds to the cost of brewing. Without the expenditure, you wouldn't be brewing.
Are we saying we just ignore all the expenses that get us to the pint in our glass ?
..and perpetuate the lieorlando wrote:No, but we're all using different equipment and paying different amounts for it and it is a hobby so to have a more meaningful discussion on what it costs to brew a pint the variable costs i.e. ingredients, is a more interesting, and comparable, number to declare. If we included absolutely everything we get further away from a meaningful and more interesting comparison.Beer O'Clock wrote:All expenditure adds to the cost of brewing. Without the expenditure, you wouldn't be brewing.
Are we saying we just ignore all the expenses that get us to the pint in our glass ?
Anyway, I use BeerSmith to create recipes and when I come across one I like the look of I plumb this into it and it calculates on my behalf what it is going to cost me in purely raw materials. It isn't the "true" cost, I know that, but it at least tells me what the ballpark figure is, and if I can be arsed,I can work out how many brews it will take to get my overall investment back through the pubs or at supermarket beer prices, but it isn't really the point.
To that end my next brew is 25 litres of bitter which, using some free yeast from a local micro, is costing me £5.30. I know I will not be brewing on exactly the same kit in 10 years so amortising the cost in that way is a nonsense, so I look at it in this relatively simple way and enjoy the end product and how good it is and how "cheap" it is.