[pgwrrhtg] Cheap alcohol

A few loosely related thoughts:

College dorms appear to be the killer app for homebrew, with poor students unwilling to pay the excise tax on alcohol, but willing to sacrifice on taste just to get drunk.  Can technology make the process accessible to the lazy, like a pushbutton device? A device willed from student to next, like refrigerators.

Homebrew typically requires weeks.  But, with a lot more yeast, one could imagine making brewing almost instantaneous, and this is in principle not a problem, because yeast multiplies on its own.  One might need a still (these days illegal) to boost the alcohol and remove impurities, since the brewing probably won't go until the yeast poisons itself.

Stills are prohibited ostensibly because of their danger.  Can technology obviate this danger?

In the bigger picture, it seems like a waste of human ingenuity spent on circumventing a sin tax on a good whose production has economies of scale.