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How would home distilling improve the liquor companies' bottom line?

Addicts won't have the time to glue in the time to distill, unless they're addicted to making the liquor and not necessarily consuming alcohol

If people who normally don't drink or drink very little may start drinking more which leads to increased alcohol purchases when out at restaurants or at the grocery store.

If people don't drink why would they make liquor?

That's like saying vegetarians would eat more hamburgers at restaurants if you gave them free barbecues.

nah it's more like the homebrewer / home distiller / homesteader types

big push started in Texas

why would companies want you to make it on their own when their own sales are falling? you need to be buying their triple-fruity-sour-IPA or vodka in a skull or something.

the fact that there are so many accounts that are < 6 months old arguing about methanol here suggests that they're concerned, and are unleashing the marketing bot armies to scare the rubes

I spend much less on alcohol now that I brew my own.

Big Honey and Big Apple are making off like bandits, however.

Not to mention, Big Bathtub.