But there’s always something about a restaurant curry that you can’t quite replicate at home and I think it’s the same with home brew.
Mrs NI used to do the wine thing back in the 80s but demijohns bubbling away in airing cupboards wasn’t great once you had kids, so she got rid.
Never been back to home brew since but that’s probably got a lot to do with good wines being much more available and affordable which wasn’t the case back in the 70s and 80s.
Same goes for beer. So many microbreweries and independent “taps” around now that you’re spoiled for choice.
Now home made jams and chutneys. That’s another matter.