If you’re pretty strapped for cash but still fancy a drink you can save some money by brewing your own beer.
It’s not that hard and you can buy a kit for under £25. All you need is a special brewing bucket (around £8 for a 20 litre one), a stirrer, a siphoning tube, brewers yeast, special brewer’s sugar and the brew kit in a can (enough to make 40 pints).
You can buy this at a home brew shop, or alternatively quite a few Wilkinson stores now sell them.
After buying the bucket, siphoning tube and stirrer you only need to buy the tin of home brew, sugar and yeast every time you want to brew up another 40 pints.
The Cost?
Depending on which brew you get (some of them taste crap) it will cost you around 20p per pint. The tin of home brew can cost as little as £4 (for an awful one) or £7 for a decent one. Then the yeast and sugar will cost a couple of quid. This equates to 40 pints of the finest home brew for just £8!
Check out DIY Beer to see if you can get a better deal online - it pays to look around!
Top Tip
Go down to your local supermarket and buy 20 x 2 litre bottles of the cheapest lemonade/coke you can buy. Go back to your house and empty all of the bottles. Then wash out the bottles and use them to put the homebrew in during the bottling stage. This saves you buying a keg or glass bottles and you can use the bottles over and over again (providing you’ve drank the homebrew in time!).
Have you ever tried home-brewing? Help other students out by adding your experience below:
Did homebrewing for 2 years at uni - it's all in the sterilisation of the equipment. If you get this right everything else should fall into place. Made a 14% lager at one point and still only cost 40p a pint!
If you’re pretty strapped for cash but still fancy a drink you can save some money by brewing your own beer.
