Pizza is stupid cheap to make at home. Domino’s is currently offering Minecraft pizzas that are less than twice the size for more than twice the cost. But making it at home means no grease soaked collectable box.
Cost per person before toppings: $2.77 It is very hard to fit even a dollar worth of toppings on a pizza.
I have made my share of spent grain goods. I had to stop brewing because it just got too expensive for even basic supplies. I used to be able to make 5 gallons of pretty much any high end beer for less than a dollar a bottle. But at the same time beers started costing $12 a four pack the cost of supplies just didn’t make sense anymore.
I still keep an eye out for fermentables that are too cheap to ignore and try to squeeze a small batch wine out of it if I can. But my beer days are probably gone.
I would be amiss if I didn’t suggest you look at this 10-plus year active thread:
https://homebrewtalk.com/threads/making-traditional-rice-wine-cheap-fun-and-different.361095/
The cheapest easiest homemade alkeyhaulz I ever saw. And if we ever have prohibition back, the secret ingredient flies under the radar.
I have had the homebrew version of that before. Haven’t tried making it myself.
The cheapest I ever made was karo corn syrup, bread yeast and a little Brewers Gold hops. I definitely recommend a long cold fermentation because that stuff had some not great phenols at warmer fermentation temps.
One thing I do miss about that other platform is r/prisonhooch.
You could start c/prisonhooch
I feel ya! I quit brewing when my wife got diagnosed with Celiac. It just didn’t seem right.
Time to check on vinting. You probably have almost all the supplies except maybe a press for cider, some pectic enzyme, tannin and citric of malic acid. The press is only real investment.
I don’t hardly drink enough anymore to make it worth my while. And I tend to choose bourbon for the 2 shots a week that I consume these days.
I hear ya. I’ve been slowly doing it as much. At this point I get beer kits as a gift and that’s pretty much what I do now once a season. What are you go to beer recipes?
Anything from Brewing Classic Styles by Jamil Zainasheff is a winner.
Almost everything else was a one off or I kept changing bit after bit and never settled on a final form.