I started brewing my own beer when the pandemic started. It's a fun new hobby, and I get to just re-use the glass bottles I bought, so it's also not wasteful.

I started brewing my own beer when the pandemic started. It's a fun new hobby, and I get to just re-use the glass bottles I bought, so it's also not wasteful. It's also surprisingly inexpensive to get started. Like any hobby you can spend as much money as you want, and supply stores will try to push you to the latest and greatest. But I think I'm going to remain happy with my simple siphon, pair of one gallon (~3.75L) glass fermenters, and glass bottles for a long time. Also, for whatever reason the homebrewing community in the US seems to have standardized around the five gallon (19L) batch size, but there's nothing wrong with smaller batches. I like being able to have more than one kind fermenting at once, and the space to variety ratio is great. Who really wants five gallons of the same thing when you gave have a few gallons of different beers?