Brewing
So, it will so happen that due to family circumstances I will be able to put a small-medium sized amount of money towards getting my own brewing operation started.
How much beer will I have to sell to stay afloat? To make a conservative guess at things, rent and bills for my house and a brewery will come to $2,500-3,500 dollars a month. Market price for a keg of beer is $120-200. One can self-distribute at less than 10K barrels a year. To again be extremely cautious malt will cost as much as $1 a pound, and hops $1 an ounce: the golden beer will be about $36
worth of malt and $15 worth of hops per keg- call it $50. This means there will be $50 or more profit per keg sold. I would need 70 kegs sold a month just to make rent- ideally, 100 kegs a month. This also means my ingredient cost is about $3.20 a gallon. A case of 22 ounce bottles is 2.06 gallons, $6.40 in ingredient cost, $12 for the bottles, $12 in mobile bottling/labeling: to sell them at $3.50 a bottles gives a profit of $1/bottle...
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How much beer will I have to sell to stay afloat? To make a conservative guess at things, rent and bills for my house and a brewery will come to $2,500-3,500 dollars a month. Market price for a keg of beer is $120-200. One can self-distribute at less than 10K barrels a year. To again be extremely cautious malt will cost as much as $1 a pound, and hops $1 an ounce: the golden beer will be about $36
worth of malt and $15 worth of hops per keg- call it $50. This means there will be $50 or more profit per keg sold. I would need 70 kegs sold a month just to make rent- ideally, 100 kegs a month. This also means my ingredient cost is about $3.20 a gallon. A case of 22 ounce bottles is 2.06 gallons, $6.40 in ingredient cost, $12 for the bottles, $12 in mobile bottling/labeling: to sell them at $3.50 a bottles gives a profit of $1/bottle...
more later.