it’s infinitely easier to become an alcoholic by buying alcohol at a grocery store. brewing is pretty much the least direct most delayed gratification way to get drunk. i guess it can be pretty cheap if you optimize for that but it sounds like jim made enough money and high flying friends it’s unlikely to be major factor.

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fragmede a day ago | parent [-]

Though, after you've home brewed the beer, you've now got potentially gallons of beer in a giant pot that you have to bottle yourself. Or you could be lazy and just drink it yourself. True, you could just go down to the store and grab a 30-rack of mass produced beer if you wanted to be an alcoholic, but having a vat of beer in your kitchen that isn't going to drink itself and is gonna go bad if you don't, is a different kind of peer pressure.

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ip26 a day ago | parent | next [-]

If it's just sitting there in your kitchen beckoning you, I think that's called beer pressure?

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Carrok a day ago | parent | prev | next [-]

A standard home brewing batch is 5 gallons. Or 40 pints.

While it is a crazy world and I don’t want to say no one has ever done what you described, it would be an outlier to say the least.

Home brewed beer is generally bottled or put into a keg and tapped.

(Almost) no one is just drinking warm uncarbonated beer from the fermenter.

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Arainach a day ago | parent | next [-]

Kegerators are easy and quite affordable to build.

I absolutely have friends who stopped home brewing because they realized that having a tap of readily available beer in their house wasn't a good idea.

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s1artibartfast a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Even if someone did it wouldn't be the worst thing. That's a pint a day for a bit more than a month.

The median Drinker / non teetotaler consumes about 0.5 drinks per day.

People with severe alcohol use disorder often consume 10 to 20 drink equivalents a day, most commonly cheap hard liquor.

Basically no alcoholic is going to be brewing a keg every couple days for self consumption.

	▲	sscaryterry a day ago \| parent [-]
		Hard work man.

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lovich 18 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can get handles of vodka for 11 dollars. You can buy listerine for even cheaper and drink that. People brewing their own beer may be alcoholics but they are doing it for the hobby or to customize the flavor. Real down in the throes of addiction alcoholics are not becoming chemists for their fix with how cheap the mass produced stuff is.

If you want to find people doing that you look for the illegal drugs that haven't had wide spread industries drive down the price, like meth.

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phrygian a day ago | parent | prev [-]

beer pressure you meant?