Is brewing your own beer really cost effective?

Estimating that a six pack of craft beer costs somewhere between $9 and $15, depending on where you live, you’re looking at a price per bottle of $1.50 to $2.50. For the sake of this article, let’s take the middle and go with $2. Using that number, we can estimate that homebrewing a one-gallon batch will yield about $20 worth of beer, $100 worth with the five-gallon batch. By the time you start making your second batch using the five-gallon kit, you’ve hit profit territory. You’ll need to brew another five one-gallon batches to start breaking even.

This doesn't factor in the additional, ongoing costs of recipe kits, which start around $12 (and can go up to $100). Butler pointed out that most recipe kits are made for five-gallon batches.
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That means your ingredients for a one-gallon batch will likely cost less than $5 if you go with one of the less expensive recipe kits. And while you’re making 10 bottles per batch, you will end up saving a few dollars over buying beer at the store. Where you’ll really begin to see a savings in your beer budget is with the five-gallon batches — 50 bottles of beer for $12? What beer lover wouldn’t want that?

“That’s the way I looked at it and that’s the reason I never stepped up my system,” Butler said. Like us, he did the calculations, comparing the cost of buying craft beer with making it himself.
“Most people don’t look at it that way. Most see it as a hobby,” he explained. “That’s why some people will spend thousands of dollars on equipment and they’re never going to make up the cost, but they’re having fun. It’s a hobby that pays off in beer.”

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