How low can you go challenge.
- wanus
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How low can you go challenge.
Whats the lowest anyone can spend on a 23 litre beerkit using at least 3 ingredients?
I spent a total of £14:95 on this lot here,can anyone do better than that?
I spent a total of £14:95 on this lot here,can anyone do better than that?
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
Home brewing isn't about doing it as cheap as possible, it's about making great beer. If you want cheap just buy some of piss water they pass off as own brand beer in the supermarkets
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
Get out of the wrong side of the bed did we?richard080561 wrote:Home brewing isn't about doing it as cheap as possible, it's about making great beer. If you want cheap just buy some of piss water they pass off as own brand beer in the supermarkets
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
The least I ever spent on a beer kit and ingredients was £14.05 and that was only because the beer kit was reduced to £8. Young's Harvest Mild that was, however, doing AG the least I have spent for a similar beer is £9.85
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
Why is everyone looking at kit brews. How low can you go all grain?
I'm on all grain brew #3. Brew 1 cost £14.95 as a kit. Brew 2 and 3 could either be around £10 each in what i used or £40 each after buying different grains and hops that I've barely used.
Andrew
I'm on all grain brew #3. Brew 1 cost £14.95 as a kit. Brew 2 and 3 could either be around £10 each in what i used or £40 each after buying different grains and hops that I've barely used.
Andrew
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
The OP did post to the "Kit" section after all , and it is beer brewingbottles wrote:Why is everyone looking at kit brews.
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
I can feel a bottle swap coming on..............
FV 1:Empty
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Demi 1&2:Empty
Demi 3&4:Empty
Maturing: Bastard builders brew
Bottle conditioning: Bastard builders brew
Drinking:McEwan's
Planning:More 🍺
Keep yer pecker hard and yer powder dry.
FV 2:Empty
Demi 1&2:Empty
Demi 3&4:Empty
Maturing: Bastard builders brew
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
Possibly, but my point is valid. I brew to make good beer, not to make cheap beerwezzel01 wrote:Get out of the wrong side of the bed did we?richard080561 wrote:Home brewing isn't about doing it as cheap as possible, it's about making great beer. If you want cheap just buy some of piss water they pass off as own brand beer in the supermarkets
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
i think ive done a 20l batch for around 12 notes , but that doesnt count gas/ electric. best value would be 2x coopers stout cans from tesct @10 each and brewed as one and short to 20l , still cant get anywhere near with ag attempts
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
20L of Coors light all grain clone using yeast slurry £4.00. Cereal mash using rice and cornmeal drove the price down. This wasn't a cost cutting brew, just happened to turn out cheap (bit like Coors I guess! Lol). Brewed it for my mam and dad. Going to be served cold and fizzy in the summer.
Re: How low can you go challenge.
Valid for you.richard080561 wrote: Possibly, but my point is valid. I brew to make good beer, not to make cheap beer
A couple of situations where it isn't valid: brewing for the sort of party where people are bringing cheap supermarket cans and brewing for people, possibly including the brewer, who don't have a discerning sense of taste/smell - for instance Champagne does nothing for me and I rather have a glass of £2.50/bottle lambrusco
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
probably this from the original post..bottles wrote:Why is everyone looking at kit brews.
remembering back to the kit days, we must have got in sub-£7 when the beerkit was being flogged for a fiverwanus wrote:Whats the lowest anyone can spend on a 23 litre beerkit using at least 3 ingredients?
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
richard080561 wrote:Possibly, but my point is valid. I brew to make good beer, not to make cheap beerwezzel01 wrote:Get out of the wrong side of the bed did we?richard080561 wrote:Home brewing isn't about doing it as cheap as possible, it's about making great beer. If you want cheap just buy some of piss water they pass off as own brand beer in the supermarkets
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YOU might do that, but it doesn't mean everyone has to do it that way.
Homebrewing is about making it yourself. Everything else is irrelevant.
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How low can you go challenge.
I'm sure it is quite possible to make GOOD beer cheaply. I'm lucky to have paid my mortgage off and splashed out on a Braumeister but for many people making pub quality (or better) beer as cheaply as possible is an important consideration.
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Re: How low can you go challenge.
Its been a little quiet on the kit brew section here since christmas.I suppose i posted this thread to get somthing going more than anything else.
I only brew kits mainly as i have a lack of space,time and i admit knowledge.Cost is why i started home brewing as i like to drink at home as well as socialy.
I don`t aim to make my beer as cheap as possible.I do a beer i call Morac in which a few xtra ingredients include oak chip,Glen Moray whisky and oranges.
Piss is piss lets face it but,with a few tweaks and the process done correctly most kits are far from it.
Alexlark it looks like your the lowest of the low
I only brew kits mainly as i have a lack of space,time and i admit knowledge.Cost is why i started home brewing as i like to drink at home as well as socialy.
I don`t aim to make my beer as cheap as possible.I do a beer i call Morac in which a few xtra ingredients include oak chip,Glen Moray whisky and oranges.
Piss is piss lets face it but,with a few tweaks and the process done correctly most kits are far from it.
Alexlark it looks like your the lowest of the low
FV 1:Empty
FV 2:Empty
Demi 1&2:Empty
Demi 3&4:Empty
Maturing: Bastard builders brew
Bottle conditioning: Bastard builders brew
Drinking:McEwan's
Planning:More 🍺
Keep yer pecker hard and yer powder dry.
FV 2:Empty
Demi 1&2:Empty
Demi 3&4:Empty
Maturing: Bastard builders brew
Bottle conditioning: Bastard builders brew
Drinking:McEwan's
Planning:More 🍺
Keep yer pecker hard and yer powder dry.