Title says it all. A sixer costs 12-15 dollars these days. I just brewed 5 gallons for under $30.
I’ve been doing this shit for decades. If you’re curious how to get into it (hint: it’s easy) I can point you in the right direction.
Title says it all. A sixer costs 12-15 dollars these days. I just brewed 5 gallons for under $30.
I’ve been doing this shit for decades. If you’re curious how to get into it (hint: it’s easy) I can point you in the right direction.
just piggy backing off your post: a cheap bottle of apple juice + yeast is easy (and cheap) hard apple cider. literally just get bread yeast and apple juice and let it ferment for a week or so. it’ll be funky, but this is the “first time get your feet wet just try it out keep it simple” recipe.
once you get the hang of it you can do other shit: add sugar, yeast nutrition, proper apple cide yeast, wine yeast, better quality apple juice, post-yeast fermentation, aged cider, apple wine, etc.
~1 gallon of apple wine is ~$3.50 whereas if I bought a gallon of apple wine it’d be 25-35.00$.
Since its fall I usually just pick up the pressed cider from the orchards. Obviously not available year round, but that makes a good hard cider for me with minimal effort. I’m not huge into cider, so I keep it simple.