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submitted 9 months ago by sik0fewl@kbin.social to c/canada@lemmy.ca

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.

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[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Time to bust out the homebrew kit...

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] DerisionConsulting@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

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

[-] nik282000@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

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...

[-] bjorney@lemmy.ca 3 points 9 months ago

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@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

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 2 points 9 months ago

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

[-] doylio@lemmy.ca 5 points 9 months ago
brew create --cask molson
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