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On April 1, a tax increase on alcohol known as the "beer tax" will come into effect, meaning Canadians may soon pay more for their beverage of choice.

On April 1, a tax increase on alcohol known as the “beer tax” will come into effect, meaning Canadians may soon pay more for their beverage of choice.

Time to bust out the homebrew kit…

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If you are looking to save money, take the fraction of a cent price increase in stride

Signed: guy who has spent thousands of dollars on home brewing equipment

Nik282000
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Depends on the volume you drink. If you can save a buck a beer and drink 2-3 tallboys a day you could offset the cost of the gear in a year.

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Yes, but that is also contingent on you placing absolutely zero value on your time.

An absolute bottom of the barrel recipe (10lb 2 row, 1lb c-10, 1oz hallertau, s-04) will run you about $30-40 per 20L batch. So after you spend hundreds of dollars on equipment, you are only saving like $40 per 10 hours spent brewing

Nik282000
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placing absolutely zero value on your time

I see you’ve met my boss!

Is it 10 active hours or a 10 hour period during which you nanny an ongoing process? I started turning 2 days a month into bread baking/meat smoking/laundry day. Each job only needs an hour each of active time but spread out over 4-6hrs. I could totally squeeze in an additional project…

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Brew day is ~8 hours, I would say it’s half nannying, there’s usually 2 hours where you can full on walk away, but the rest is either active cleaning or you have to press a button or stir a thing every 10 minutes so you are glued to your pot

Bottling is another ~2 hours or so (sanitizing bottles and capping them, cleaning the used fermenter) - you can cut this down to half an hour if you forego bottling, but that’s another $1500 in capital costs for kegging equipment

Nik282000
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Hmm, that would be a big jump in the workload but it would fit with the twice a month schedule. I’ll have to take some time before I grok this problem.

@Kichae@lemmy.ca
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Oh no, your boss values your time very highly. They just want to keep all of that value for themself.

14-21 tallboys is 19-29 “standard drinks” a week.

That’s a lot of alcohol.

https://www.ccsa.ca/canadas-guidance-alcohol-and-health

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I know, Maybe if we had proper healthcare, and a government that works for it’s people instead of corporations, Canadians wouldn’t have to kill themselves just to sleep at night.

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