Long time hobbyist home brewer here. Nobody is stopping you from home distilling. The required gear has long been publicly available. With either boozy category, one doesn’t take up this hobby to save money. There’s a large investment in gear and time to get it done.

It’s taken me close to 10 years of home brew experience, and probably over to $20k in supplies and equipment over that time to make beer that’s on par with craft breweries… 5 gallons of beer at a time.

The conversation ratio on mash to beer is mostly beer. The conversation ratio on mash to finished drinkable liquor is a joke in comparison. Multiple distillations if you want something that’s at best bottom shelf. Forget about aging.

Yep. When you heat distill with care you can maintain a couple degrees of precision to better separate ethanol from the ugly stuff. Freeze distilling concentrates all the nasty bits and just removes water.