An Easy & Fun Way to Save Money at University

A Key part of a University Students Life

 

If you are at university, then there is one thing you are going to need to learn if you don’t already.  That’s how to be sociable.

 

A huge part of university life is living away from home, learning how to make new friends and learning how to live your own life and make your own decisions.

 

A huge part of socialising at university revolves around booze.  Whether it be a the local pub, the students union, in the halls of residence or in your shared house.

 

However, with the student fees, cost of living, cost of rent, etc rising, it seems that the social element is suffering a little.  Or if the social part of your uni life is booming, your pocket is probably always empty when it comes to clothes, hair cuts, shavers and deodorant.  Lol

 

For years it has been well known that you can save huge amounts of money by brewing your own lager and beer at home.

 

For the price of a lager kit and 1kg of sugar you can make amazing lager in just a couple of weeks.

 

A Coopers Australian Lager kit costs just £9.95 + 1kg of sugar (at Asda that just 78p) to make 40 pints of fantastic lager, very similar to Fosters works out at just 26p a pint (568ml). 

 

Where as a 440ml can of Fosters costs you £0.75 if you can get it on a great deal, which works out as £0.97 a pint.

 

You can save a huge amount over the course of the term.

 

OK, there in an initial outlay for the equipment, but all of that will cost you about £30 (including your first lager kit) and then all you have to do is save up a few old lemonade bottles to put your brewed lager into and in a couple of weeks you have amazing lager that’s saved you lots and lots.

 

Homebrew has changed a lot in the last few years, the manufacturing process of beer and lager kits have come a very long way and now making homebrew from kits is easy and more rewarding than ever as you end up with a real pint that tastes just like you get in a pub!

 

It doesn’t take up any space either.  Just put it all in a bucket, leave it in the corner of your room to bubble away, then bottle it, leave it for another week (or month if you can) then pop open a bottle and enjoy.

 

But remember to drink responsibly.  Homebrew can be more potent than the beers you are used to drinking, especially if you accidentally add some more sugar ;)

 

And once you get the hang of brewing, you can start to experiment, using brewing sugar, spraymalts, hops, adding treacle and of course trying the myriad of different lager kits out there.

 

So what are you waiting for?  Get brewing!

 

 

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