Grapes, sugar, yeast, water, a great dose of patience—over centuries, mankind has perfected the art of homemade alcoholic brews, or the gentlemen’s moonshine. Brewing homemade beer is not a common phenomenon in India, maybe because carbonation has the scary ‘side-effect’ of making glass bottles explode or maybe because beer is not the most popular drink in the country, only accounting for 7 per cent of all liquor consumed in India. On a recent Sunday morning, a couple of 50-year-old beer enthusiasts—a publisher and a chip designer—brewed two cases of beer at their home in South Delhi.