Originally Posted by PR_Tom

I dont know how someone would get a burn other than being careless quite honestly. There are several methods that would be considered "brewing" at home.

From mixing up a simple beer concentrate with water and adding yeast, to full hour long boils. Usually a full boil is done on a propane turkey fryer style rig. Sure you could get burned, but no more so than if you're just boiling water for an hour.

I do a method on the stove top in a 5 gallon pot. Steep some grains, add some extract, add hops at specific intervals, chill, add yeast, wait a few weeks. Thats about it.

The most common issues I've read of are failure to be 100% sanitary and getting an infected batch. Or over-priming glass bottles to the point where they fail and explode. It's pretty simple to avoid both of these things though.