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So I did some quick and dirty math...

Posted by znufrii Mar 29 '13, 10:19

In order to match my current income, I would need to brew, bottle and sell at least 25 gallons of beer every day, 15 if I don't take weekends off.

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that's 2 kegs a day, one keg, a couple growlers and a few six packs, the rent gets paid by the pub half selling burgers and/or pizza -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 29, 11:16 5
- 25 gallons is 5 batches of homebrew. Not 2 commercial kegs. We never, ever did more than 3 batches in a day and it nearly killed us. - loosilu Mar 29, 11:27 4
  - But, with the proper commercial gear, it doesn't take much more to brew 500g as it does 5g - zeitgeist Mar 29, 11:32 3
    - at that point I would be in the position of things having officially gotten out of hand :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 11:39 1
      - it wouldn't fit into the 2nd bathroom -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 29, 11:43
    - I know. that's where the $$$ and rent come it. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:32
plus it's illegal. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 10:42 28
- because no one's ever gotten the necessary licensing and approvals to start their own commercial craft brewery? -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 10:43 27
  - I stepped away, but just fyi, that costs tens of thousands of dollars and takes years. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:24 2
    - state by state, here its not so bad so we have 2 or 3 brew pubs in every town now, now its craft distilleries -- nm - zeitgeist Mar 29, 11:29 1
      - Brew pubs are much larger scale than homebrew. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:30
  - Did your quick and dirty math consider whether you'd be allowed to brew beer commercially within your home? - TWuG Mar 29, 10:46 23
    - that's far too much detail for a quick and dirty calculation. - znufrii Mar 29, 10:52 22
      - You cannot possibly make money brewing beer by hand in your home. Here is why. - loosilu Mar 29, 11:25
      - Not "at least". If you haven't included rent then your "at least" won't cover your costs. :-) -- nm - TWuG Mar 29, 10:54 20
        
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        the whole point of a Q&D is to find out how ridiculous of an idea it is in the first place, without even needing to get to that point. -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 10:56 16
        
        If your assumptions are wrong or incomplete, quick and dirty math tells you nothing about how ridiculous the idea is. -- nm - TWuG Mar 29, 11:10 15
        
        if it's ridiculous under the most generous of assumptions, it's not likely to get any less ridiculous if those assumptions are refined with an eye - znufrii Mar 29, 11:19 14
        
        I think the assumption that you need to do it full time (match current income) - TWuG Mar 29, 11:23 13
        
        I already do it as a hobby. - znufrii Mar 29, 11:25 12
        
        You could do it as a business. You probably just can't run it out of your home. - TWuG Mar 29, 11:31 6
        
        yeah, capital investments aren't even in the picture. - znufrii Mar 29, 11:35 4
        
        and if you lose one batch, whoops. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:36 3
        
        which reminds me, you have no AC in your house. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:37 2
        
        well, that too... :) -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 11:38 1
        
        that's another capital investment you will need. - loosilu Mar 29, 11:39
        
        this. you have to scale up and automate. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:32
        
        when we did the math, we figured out that our homebrew was not much cheaper than retail beer. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:26 4
        
        that's pretty much what it works out to for me currently as well -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 11:29 3
        
        therefore how do you make a profit? -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:30 2
        
        well, I wouldn't likely be buying my ingredients retail if I were doing it at that scale, would I? - znufrii Mar 29, 11:34 1
        
        that's not enough to make it worth while. -- nm - loosilu Mar 29, 11:34
        
        You guys need to watch Moonshiners. You just need a quiet place in the woods to make alcohol. -- nm - zork Mar 29, 10:55 1
        
        Now that would be a new era in znufrii-mocking -- nm - con_carne Mar 29, 11:07
wait ... why would you sell beer and not consume it yourself? -- nm - JenBro Mar 29, 10:39 1
- well, I can always make more for myself. -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 10:40
And convince enough people to purchase your swill! -- nm - Mop on Macbook Air Mar 29, 10:39 1
- that would be the "selling" part that I mentioned. -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 10:39
Quick and dirty meth would be better -- nm - groiny Mar 29, 10:22 1
- probably -- nm - znufrii Mar 29, 10:27

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