[globular-toast]

> in a way that baking bread, for example, was not.

This probably just comes down to availability of equipment. Bread making in the home has been common in places like England and India for a long time. In places like Austria and France the preference is for bread that is best from special ovens that people don't have at home, but even there people would make things like brioche at home.

[Scaevolus]

Baking in large ovens has massive, obvious economies of scale in terms of fuel use per gram of bread. It's very natural to become centralized.

Brewing is more efficient in terms of labor as you scale up to larger containers, but it's less extreme.