[jitl]

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.

[fragmede]

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.

[ip26]

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

[Carrok]

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.

[Arainach]

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.

[s1artibartfast]

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]

Hard work man.

[phrygian]

beer pressure you meant?