Holiday Brew - batch 1 of 6 has begun!
Greetings and a happy Thanksgiving to you and yours. The liquid yeast arrived yesterday. Since it is the smack pack variety, I needed to activate it and wait until today before it was ready. The beer is now in primary fermentation, which I hope will take no more than about a week. I’ve got a part on order for my other homebrew kit so I can have two batches going at the same time. Lot of parties coming up and time is running short!
The initial specific gravity for this batch comes to 1.036. According to the potential alcohol content, we’re looking at possibly 5%. Woohoo!
Here’s a running total of what I’ve spent on this batch so far. The Beer Mixes and Yeast prices include shipping costs:
Beer Mixes: $76.20
Yeast: $46.32
Cranberries: $9.95
Water: $12.44
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TOTAL: $144.91
As far as costs go, the beer is about $0.09 per ounce. Pretty comparable in cost to some of your imported beers (At $0.09 an ounce, a six pack of 12oz beers is about $6.48). Well, I didn’t get into this to make cheaper beer — just tastier beer :) Still, you can see what kind of money you are looking at for this hobby. Its not a huge investment (keep in mind, those totals are for 12 gallons of beer…the Mr. Beer kit does 2 gallon batches, so you can start a lot smaller than that).
I’ll blog again as the batches progress! Check the recipies portion of this blog for beer recipies from me and others!
Happy brewing!
Paul