15
[question] How does your local cinema look like?
(sopuli.xyz)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 08 Mar 2026
15 points (85.7% liked)
Movies
14389 readers
171 users here now
Welcome to Movies, a community for discussing movies, film news, box office, and more! We want this to be a place for members to feel safe to discuss and share everything they love about movies and movie related things. Please feel free to take part and help our community grow!
Related Communities:
!books@lemmy.world - Discussing books and book-related things.
!comicbooks@lemmy.world - A place to discuss comic books of all types.
!marvelstudios@lemmy.world - LW's home for all things MCU.
While posting and commenting in this community, you must abide by the Lemmy.World Terms of Service: https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
-
Posts or comments that are homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, ableist, or advocating violence will be removed.
-
Be civil: disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally insult others.
-
Spam, self promotion, trolling, and bots are not allowed
-
Shitposts and memes are allowed until they prove to be a problem.
Regarding spoilers; Please put "(Spoilers)" in the title of your post if you anticipate spoilers, as we do not currently have a spoiler tag available. If your post contains an image that could be considered a spoiler, please mark the thread as NSFW so the image gets blurred. As far as how long to wait until the post is no longer a spoiler, please just use your best judgement. Everyone has a different idea on this, so we don't want to make any hard limits.
Please use spoiler tags whenever commenting a spoiler in a non-spoiler thread. Most of the Lemmy clients don't support this but we want to get into the habit as clients will be supporting in the future.
Failure to follow these guidelines will result in your post/comment being removed and/or more severe actions. All posts and comments will be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. This means that some content that violates the rules may be allowed, while other content that does not violate the rules may be removed. The moderators retain the right to remove any content and ban users. We ask that the users report any comment or post that violates the rules, and to use critical thinking when reading, posting or commenting.
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
That is really confusing even for me. For that money you can buy pretty large second hand brewing setup. Like 200-300l everything included.
As a brewer I know you can spend as little or as much as you want on a brewing setup. I can make a decent hefe on my stove with regular kitchen supplies and some bottles. But if I'm going to make a Delirium Tremors clone I'm going to need substantially more professional equipment costing a lot more than $300.
The problem with being in Czech Republic is that you can't make beer for cheaper than they sell it. I remember 20 years ago when I had to explain to a person after person that you cannot brew Budweiser for cheaper than you can buy it. The math really only worked out if you're trying to brew something with a lot of hops or some extra maltiness. That's back when you can buy a six pack of ipas for $7. Those days are gone. But at the same time brewing cheap beer is not cheap anymore.
Hops and malt are expensive now for the home brewer. Cheapest beer I ever made was using just straight corn syrup and bread yeast with a little bit of Brewers gold hopes I had gotten for free. And even now I don't think I can make that beer for cheaper than I can buy it.
It's pretty much why I stopped brewing. Now if I make something it's because I harvested most of the stuff I play on property. I'm eagerly waiting for the year. I get a decent plum harvest off my trees to make some wine. I'll pick up some local honey and harvest my own elderberries to make a mead.
Anyway, back in the late '90s none of that was an option. Especially if you were stationed in Germany. It was definitely cheaper to travel to Czech Republic and pay retail prices at a bar for beer than to make it on your own.
My brew kettle got tax. These days it's more likely to be used for making chicken stock than brewing any beer.
I brew not because the price but because I want to try stuff and do some bit wild stuff that just isn't available here.
I also worked in a professional craft brewery so I know a bit about the pricing and stuff like that. But I don't think you need that much advanced brew equipment to make something bit more demanding.
Back in the day some beer categories were impossible to find and brewing or round trip airfare was the only option to try something. These days you can get pretty much anything other than a Westvleteren 12 or Pliny as long as you have enough money
If I wanted 5 gallons of the original Killian's Red recipe before they turned it into a lager I had to new it myself and as a side benefit I could do it for about half the cost.
Most people don't have a five gallon pot, carboy and 48 bottles and 20k BTU. They definitely don't have a wurt chiller to avoid excessive hop isomerization and self regulating temperature control to make sure their DT clone doesn't taste like bandaid. Basic beers don't need much stuff but try to brew a specific IPA or most any beer above 9% and things start getting expensive real fast.
For me it is still quite hard to find specific product or something which doesn't exist yet - for example last year I brewed beer with wine grape juice and because I doubled it as school project I found out it is quite hard to tax it so nobody is making it.
So yes I get the point but for me it still offers some added bonus compared to commercial beer.
There are definitely advantages if one wants something specific. 20+ years ago it was a very different game. It felt like everything changed after the 2007 hop shortage. Throughout the whole industry distribution systems changed, suppliers merged things that used to be rare were suddenly available within days. The hop shortage and those events are only slightly related but they happened at the same time.
After that breweries started popping up everywhere. Suddenly there were more local options available than anyone could possibly need and with it the need to brew your own to try something completely different. The brew-curious could buy things they hadn't even dreamed of before so the need to home brew decreased. And the prices to brew went up as there was more competition for ingredients.