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Answers: I was wondering if it costs the beer manufacture more to bottle the beer in glass then it does to actually make the beer. So what cost the beer manufacture more, the ozs of beer or the glass?

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The bottle costs more.

The cost of the ingredients, the cost of the equipment, the cost of the utilities, the time, and the labor of the brewer combined do not add up to the cost of the bottle on a per-unit cost...and that's true on a micro-brewery scale. Large scale operations use even cheaper ingredients, and do a larger volume per employee so it costs them EVEN less per unit.

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I'm guessing the bottle. By the time you factor in the bottling machines, that's a major cost.

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This really is a pretty good question. How long did it take you to think it up. I don't have exact costs but I spent 30 years in the food industry creating products and packaging. I will bet the product costs more. But they bottle is fairly expensive. What really makes a difference is the shipping weight. Glass is very heavy and expensive to ship. Have you ever noticed that more and more foods (and beer) are going to plastic bottles and jars (and in the case of beer, aluminum cans) mostly that's because of shipping weight.
PhD Food Chemistry and Nutrition

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Foreign/domestic/micro???

I'd have to say it would depend on the quality of the beer.

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I've read that the bottle, advertising, packaging and shipping is way more costly than the contents.

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The beer costs about 3 cents,the bottle about a quarter and add another 15 cents for the label.

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