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How did you start out? Does it require much space or can I start relatively small and are there any safety concerns I should be worried about?
Like time I tried to ferment anything was a jar of pickles and they were too salty for King Neptune lol
https://beehaw.org/post/727140
Look in brewing community (I linked start guide for beer from there).
For beer you need 2 big pots (I use modified 50l pots) and fermentation vessel. You can start smaller but it takes same time and effort to make 10 or 50l of beer.
Safety - you could get burned. And sometimes need to repaint the kitchen when you make bombs.
Also I started when I was about 15 yo. My dad tought me to brew. He made the brew monster (it is little bit dangerous but it works).
I wrote for now because in 2 months I will be changing jobs - I will be working in brewery.
So I will change from beer to ciders and mead.
There's a fantastic community on Reddit, /r/prisonhooch, that has lots of info and some of the simplist, easiest, least expensive ways to start making your own alcoholic stuff. You can start with a jug of plain store bought apple or grape or pretty much any fruit juice, some yeast (even plain ol' grocery store bread yeast,) and some sugar. It's really fun! & A whole lot safer than I thought it would be before I started diving into researching about it.
There are also cider making and homebrewing and other related communities there that are great, but the one I mentioned is, in my experience, the most welcome to newbies and is not prickly or elitist and weird like some of those booze making communities are.