It's actually not that risky. IME You can tell when it's off far before you even get near drinking it, and if it's bad after that, you'll be able to tell pretty immediately. So long as you're able to sterilize the equipment it's safe, and the most common flaws in beer (brettanomyces and lactobacillus infections) aren't poisonous, and are actually cultivated in some styles of beer.
Botulism isn't a problem because the yeast acidify the beer.
Beer is really easy. Mead is comically easy. The hardest part is making super duper sure your fermenting vessels and bottles are as sterile as possible. If you want to be cool and have tons of friends be the "home brewed mead" guy.
Brewing beer is insanely cheap and easy - and really hard to fuck up. My current yields are 5 gallons for approx 25 dollars a batch. The biggest hassle is space and a little bit of time.
Also, if someone really wanted to go ultra cheap, buying grain and ingredients in bulk could bring down the price to probably 15 dollars per 5 gallons. But you'd be somewhat married to a small set of beer styles if that were the route chosen.
Yeh dude I would save so much money if I brewed my own beer but I ain’t fucking around with potentially poisoning myself lol
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It's actually not that risky. IME You can tell when it's off far before you even get near drinking it, and if it's bad after that, you'll be able to tell pretty immediately. So long as you're able to sterilize the equipment it's safe, and the most common flaws in beer (brettanomyces and lactobacillus infections) aren't poisonous, and are actually cultivated in some styles of beer.
Botulism isn't a problem because the yeast acidify the beer.
Beer is really easy. Mead is comically easy. The hardest part is making super duper sure your fermenting vessels and bottles are as sterile as possible. If you want to be cool and have tons of friends be the "home brewed mead" guy.
Brewing beer is insanely cheap and easy - and really hard to fuck up. My current yields are 5 gallons for approx 25 dollars a batch. The biggest hassle is space and a little bit of time.
Also, if someone really wanted to go ultra cheap, buying grain and ingredients in bulk could bring down the price to probably 15 dollars per 5 gallons. But you'd be somewhat married to a small set of beer styles if that were the route chosen.