The Cost of Making Craft Beer

A few people have asked us how much our beer costs to make. In all honesty, we didn't know how to answer this question, so I took one of our recent beers and tried to work it out. Below you'll see the result of my calculations.

 Now there are a couple of caveats here:

• Juice Wolf is a pretty boozy (8.3%), hoppy beer and given that a large proportion of the costs are the hops, many of our beers will come in a bit cheaper than this. But there will be others - La Push for example - that have even more hops and so will be more expensive.
  
  
• I've missed out a number of costs - water, labelling, consumables and electricity to name a few - partly because I think they're fairly negligible and partly because I'm lazy

You'll notice that a significant proportion of the overall cost is in bottling, which is why we always appreciate it when you bring your empties back to us.

I remember the days of homebrew kits claiming 50p-pints, and maybe that is still possible. But for us all-grain brewers that like to experiment with exotic malts and hops to make interesting, unique beers, that is not the case.

I hope those of you who have tried our beer will agree that it's worth it!