After that long in the game, the equipment has long paid for itself. The bottles are exceedingly easy to source from places like Freecycle or the local recycle bins. I prefer Grolsch type rubber seal bottles, but the larger martinelli cider bottles are good for capping and gifting.
Given the retail prices of craft beers, there is huge cost savings in brewing your own. I am not in the mood to drop $4-16 for a 22oz craft swill. I can whip something like that up, five gallons at a time and fill racks with great beer for under $1.50 a bottle. All top shelf ingredients and free labor. clay 2002 s430 - Victor, a Stately & well tailored chap 1974 450sl - Frosch - Two tone green 1972 220D - Gump - She was green, simple and ran 1995 E300D - Gave her life to save me against a Dame in a SUV POS 1987 SDL - Beware Nigerian Scammers On Jul 27, 2014, at 5:16 PM, Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote: > Lol, I've been home brewing for a couple decades now. > > You can indeed make decent beer at much less cost that the main line brews > bought at the liquor store, and you can make things that were once > unobtainable. > > In the last twenty years, the quality of microbrewery beer has increased > quite a bit, but I still don't like super hoppy beer, so I make the stuff I > do like, such as the recent Honey Blonde Ale that is getting rave reviews -- > with honey from my own hives to boot. > > It's a great hobby, and not all that expensive once you get the basic gear. > > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those > individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has > no control over the content of the messages of each contributor. _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com All posts are the result of individual contributors and as such, those individuals are responsible for the content of the post. The list owner has no control over the content of the messages of each contributor.
