As most of you know I don't brew beer and being a wine maker I don't boil so I was wondering how much has the increase in the price of gas and electric put on a batch of beer and how much will the predicted rise effect the price.
As most of you know I don't brew beer and being a wine maker I don't boil so I was wondering how much has the increase in the price of gas and electric put on a batch of beer and how much will the predicted rise effect the price.
about £1 for me at the moment, and will be about £1.35 after the rises
It's the standing charge where they are really gouging us.
A bit off topic and maybe I’m missing something but I just don’t get the hike in standing charges.
I appreciate that wholesale Gas prices are through the roof so it makes sense the retail prices need to go up too, but why the standing charge? It costs my supplier the same to get the fuel supplied to me today as it did last week, last month or last year!
A bit off topic and maybe I’m missing something but I just don’t get the hike in standing charges.
I appreciate that wholesale Gas prices are through the roof so it makes sense the retail prices need to go up too, but why the standing charge? It costs my supplier the same to get the fuel supplied to me today as it did last week, last month or last year!
My wife contacted Scottish Power as our standing order amount is going up 100%. Their excuse was to balance out the loss of supplying power to thousands of new customers forced on them due to smaller companies going under.A bit off topic and maybe I’m missing something but I just don’t get the hike in standing charges.
I appreciate that wholesale Gas prices are through the roof so it makes sense the retail prices need to go up too, but why the standing charge? It costs my supplier the same to get the fuel supplied to me today as it did last week, last month or last year!
Sshh, some are very precious about the boil.You can get good results with a shorter (cheaper) boil on most styles.
I use bottled gas one way or another (we're not on mains gas so the cooker also runs off a bottle) and don't find it too bad. a 13 of Propane used to be around 25 euros and now it's nearly 30 euros, but when I use my gas ring, I get more than 20 brews of 25+ litres out of it ( I use an electric Burco-like kettle to heat my mash and sparge water) so I reckon it would be about the same as all-electric. I don't like to have more than 15 litres on the cooker top anyway. I think it's important to get a ring with some kind of control- mine has three burner sections, each with its own tap, and that works just fine.A 4 gallon brew has been costing me about £1.30 beginning to end (although that also includes fridge and freezer). A little bit more after the last price increase and about £1.55 after april's rise. So not bad. Standing charge has gone up a lot though - 28p/day to 54p/day on april 1st. Can't avoid that anyway, brewing beer or not.
I believe if you use bottled gas it's way more expensive per brew.
just a suggestion.Sshh, some are very precious about the boil.
And a very good one at that. I just did a no boil even, excited to see how it turns out.just a suggestion.
All-grain or extract? I've done some no-boil extract batches that turned out good, but the shortest all-grain boil I've done was 15 minutes.And a very good one at that. I just did a no boil even, excited to see how it turns out.
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