Curmudgeon wrote:
3 months here and such a lot learned.
2nd hand airstill was £85 including postage, spirit hydrometer £5 ish and everything else I had already or would have used for beer/wine/cider anyway.
It's hard to put a monetary figure on money saved but I'm a pretty heavy drinker so in month 1 and 2 I was probably only equaling cheapo supermarket booze type product and now I know I'm making way better, but call it £5 a day saving not counting quality and that equals £450 saving (assuming still could be re-sold).
Moving forward, depending on drink of choice, £5 - £10 a day saved in pure personal financials. Reward of good produce harder to define, especially when credited by mates.
3 months here and such a lot learned.
2nd hand airstill was £85 including postage, spirit hydrometer £5 ish and everything else I had already or would have used for beer/wine/cider anyway.
It's hard to put a monetary figure on money saved but I'm a pretty heavy drinker so in month 1 and 2 I was probably only equaling cheapo supermarket booze type product and now I know I'm making way better, but call it £5 a day saving not counting quality and that equals £450 saving (assuming still could be re-sold).
Moving forward, depending on drink of choice, £5 - £10 a day saved in pure personal financials. Reward of good produce harder to define, especially when credited by mates.
I work out my "how much saved" price from the actual makings. Sure you could use the cost of the still and hardware too, but I just follow business practice using the operating cost of the consumables (anything else would qualify as capital budget i.e. you have to basically spend that before you can start making savings).
Of course, it depends on how long you manage to keep the still and hardware working but once they're dead/broken etc you have the numbers for how much additional cost they work out at.
Some of us will use more consumables than others, that's dependant on choice of kit and method.
If you did do the double distill method with your airstill, it would show it as being a bit more expensive, but IMO the improvement in quality of neutral is worth it.
When you're paying at least £12 a bottle for cheapo vodka and you work out that it costs you less than £3 to make one, that sort of saving is worth the effort IMO
But even without quoting the current excise duty (not forgetting the VAT of course), you can see immediately how much you're likely to be saving.
Statistics: Posted by Phantom — Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:07 am
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your in the right place...like a lot of us I started off with the Airstill. I still have it, and should use it a little more...but again like a lot of guys I moved on up to a T5.