Making some booze today.
A basic kit (pure sugars, yeast, filter media) is $55. (I could do this cheaper, but it's not worth trying to source pure dextrose in the small quantities I need. The storage alone would be a pain in the arse.)
Add $4 for carbon slurry, and maybe $5 (generous) for steriliser and power.
For this, I end up with 10 litres of 40% neutral spirit. Flavouring costs me about $1 a litre to make bourbons, it's mostly time.
So the upshot is that I can make bourbon that fools people that it's Jim Beam black for $7.40 a litre.
Dan Murphy's wants $41 a bottle... for 700ml, or $58 a litre. And of that, the government has their hand out for over $20 of that 700ml bottle.
No thanks, time to check the condensor temp on the still, and put another batch down in the fermenter I think.
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