We have finally bottled the last beer that was made during the summer-brewing bonanza. To get a good idea of how much we were spending on brewing and how many bottles of beer were actually made, we made a spread sheet at the beginnng of the summer. We tracked ingredient price/batch and bottles/batch, as well as other costs related to making/updating equipement, propane, or other purchases. Results:
Beers Made: 10
Ingredient Costs: $449.57
Bottles Made: 482
Cost/bottle: $0.93
Not a bad price (~$1/beer) when you consider that we make pretty high alcohol and highly hopped beers. The most expensive batch was the Beglian Wit at $73.80, but that was for 8 gallons of beer (~$9.22/gallon). The most expensive beer per gallon was the First Snow Old Ale at $65.45 ($13.09/gallon). The cheapest beer was the Red Ale at $22.33 ($4.46/gal) followed by Bailey's Brown at $26.56 ($5.13/gal).
School as been pretty busy, so we havent had any time to brew yet, but next week is an off week for the Gators (thankfully) and we might brew then. I have also just purchased a temperature controller to convert our mini-fridge into a fermentation chamber, but more on that later when we actually use it. Until next time,
Rowdy Reptile Brewing
