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In response to "Did your quick and dirty math consider whether you'd be allowed to brew beer commercially within your home?" by TWuG

that's far too much detail for a quick and dirty calculation.

Posted by znufrii Mar 29 '13, 10:52

and I did say "at least"

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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

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