The most economical alcoholic beverage?

Tomato

Hi

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Question for ppl consuming alcohol: if you could drink anything (wine, spirits, beer, etc), what do you think is the most economical alcoholic beverage?

I kinda think it could be a bottle of rum.

it would be interesting to know, plus how much you usually pay and where you sorce it from.

thank you.
T:beer:

zarazara

Home made elderflower champagne,very cheap,especially when you get the brewing equipment,bottles etc off Freecycle. Also HM Blackberry Wine.

HappyMJ

Second the home brew. I make my own home brew beer. £10 for the can including yeast from Wilkinson, less than £1 for the 1kg of sugar, plus about 20p for the sterilizing powder and 10p for each CO2 canister. Probably about 50p for the loads of water needed to clean, sterilize and fill the fermenter. That makes it less than 30p for each pint at about 5%ABV. It's quite nice as well. It's not like a commercial lager but it's much better than Sainsburys basics or Tesco value lager.

Mankysteve

Cheap cider. What all the local alcoholics drink don't expect it too very nice.

allthough home brew got the cheaper long term costs.

Farway

A second for cheap strong cider, product of choice, along with Special Brew, and they must have tried them all at some stage

tomterm8

Tomato wrote: »

Hi
Question for ppl consuming alcohol: if you could drink anything (wine, spirits, beer, etc), what do you think is the most economical alcoholic beverage?
T:beer:

You can make a turbo cider for the price of tesco value apple juice + 20p.

Trinny

Hi Tomato

I am going with the others on the forum who say home made wine. We started last year - only using hedgerow ingredients where possible. so far we have made:

Nettle wine, dandelion wine and elderberry wine, elderflower is fermenting at the moment and honeysuckle wine is due to be made shortly.

We got all our demijohns and brewing kit from wilkinsons and from charity shops - good for demijohns, casks etc. We asked on freecycle for used wine bottles and then its just a matter of buying yeast, stoppers, corks etc from wilkos.

The initial layout is probably £20 but all the kit is reusable - freecycle may be a good place to look for kit. We make 8 bottles of wine for about a fiver. Not sure if you could top that.

Cheapest is Hugh fearnley whittingstall recipe for nettle beer and for elderflower champagne - easy to make, minimum of kit and quaffable very soon after making.

HTH

Trin

mandragora_2

Best value pound for pound? Something like rum, as I don't like it, wouldn't drink it, and it would stay in the cupboard for decades.

Best value for stuff I'll actually drink? I buy the best red wine in wine boxes I can afford when shopping in France - keeps for ages, and is good quality. The biggest problem is self-discipline, as we can easily end up just drinking lots more than usual, so what I do now is decant off a bottle's worth, take that to where we are, and keep the box itself tucked well out of the way in the dining room or somewhere! Out of sight, out of mind - it works!

DaisyClaire

Sorry to thread hijack, but its all relevant! Can anyone talk me through what I would need to buy to make my own homemade wine and beer? I see you can get a beer kit to make 40 pints from Wilkinsons for just over £8.00 but what else would I need? What would I need to make wine? Would love to give this a go, hubby and I are trying really hard to cut our monthy budgets and whilst this may sound as if im a alcoholic :rotfl:we do spend a bit on keeping wine and beer in the house for friends visits and especially this time of year with BBQ's, so need to cut back on what I spend on alcohol!:D

Coopdivi

The cheapest way to get drunk is home brew.
The cheapest from a shop is cider.

Asda sell 2 litre bottles of Frosty Jack (7.5%) for less than 3 quid. 2 bottles should finish you off.

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/asda-compare-prices/Cider_And_Alcopops/Frosty_Jack_Cider_2L.html

I believe it's even cheaper in Iceland. 3 litres for 4 quid?

And DaisyClaire homebrew kits are easy peasy.

Get a 5 gallon plastic bucket (about £8) a syphon tube (£!ish) sterilising powder(£1.50) a long handled plastic spoon (£2) and a pressure barrel (£19ish) If you use 2 litre fizzy pop bottles you can go without the barrel but it's difficult not to get sediment in your glass.

All the instructions are on the beer kit label. It'll take 20 minutes max to make it. Leave the full bucket in the kitchen for a week, then syphon it off into the barrel or bottles. Add sugar as per instructions then leave for at least a week but preferably 3 weeks in a cool place.

Get drunk. It won't be as fizzy as shop bought but the taste is virtually the same.

parsonswife8

Elderberry, elderflower and blackberry wines. Got free demi johns at a glass recycling point and all the fruit is out on the field. My OH is very good at making wine and cordial.