J. Rizos's Home Brewing Expense Justification Calculator Get the book Here

INSTRUCTIONS: Replace the sample data in the tan cells.

12 oz beers consumed per week Ave 6 pack price from store Number of chipping-in people who drink your average Ave. 5 gallon batch cost Cost of Equipment

You Drink beers per day.

You Pay for each store-bought beer.

That comes to for 5 gallons worth of store-bought beer.

It takes you days to drink 5 gallons of beer. You lush.

But you pay only per each home-brewed beer.

By homebrewing a 5 gallon batch, you save over store-bought beer.

In order to justify your equipment expenditure, you must brew 5 gallon batches.

In order to justify your equipment expenditure, you must drink homebrew beers.

By yourself, this will take you days to make up for your equipment requisition.

By yourself, you can feel justified in about months.