Overlord
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Sat May 07, 2011 7:03 am
Post-Collapse Alcoholic Beverage Making
I don't see this type of "Topic " here yet ( or anywhere else on this forum, for that matter ), so thought I'd start a thread about it...
........Because even in the darkest of the Dark Ages, there was still beer.
My friend said that the only way he could get though any kind of Apocalypse scenario ( Robot Uprising / Alien Invasion / Zombie, Nuclear, etc. ) would be if he was totally drunk.
I of course disagreed with the wisdom in that, but now that I think about it, it would make some sense, I guess. There will be a point in time where whatever people were left around in the world of Post P.O. would want to disconnect for a bit, to temporarily escape the chaos or whatever that is happening at that time. And I would think that any type of alchoholic beverage would be valuable as a commodity as well.
I think that fermented drinks would be the easiest to make ( heck, my roomate and I made beer in our dormroom back in college when we we still under the legal age of drinking ( in the U.S., it's the age of 21 ) -the stuff that we made was not that good, but it got the job done! ). Beer is relatively quick to make, and one can make lots of it, with little equipment.
Now wine is a little bit more complicated, and takes a longer time to ferment. But I would think that those two would be the two types of alchoholic drinks that would still be around somewhat in the years after this Collapse thing gets underway.
Now the distilled stuff ( hard liquor like wiskey gin, rum, tequila, vodka, etc. ) would probably be more complicated to make, and would take longer to do, I would think. It would not impossible though - I would think that the knowledge of building stills would still survive post P.O. in the out-of-the-way bondock areas - if what I am told by my relatives in West Virginia is correct...
Any further thoughts on this subject?
........Because even in the darkest of the Dark Ages, there was still beer.
My friend said that the only way he could get though any kind of Apocalypse scenario ( Robot Uprising / Alien Invasion / Zombie, Nuclear, etc. ) would be if he was totally drunk.
I of course disagreed with the wisdom in that, but now that I think about it, it would make some sense, I guess. There will be a point in time where whatever people were left around in the world of Post P.O. would want to disconnect for a bit, to temporarily escape the chaos or whatever that is happening at that time. And I would think that any type of alchoholic beverage would be valuable as a commodity as well.
I think that fermented drinks would be the easiest to make ( heck, my roomate and I made beer in our dormroom back in college when we we still under the legal age of drinking ( in the U.S., it's the age of 21 ) -the stuff that we made was not that good, but it got the job done! ). Beer is relatively quick to make, and one can make lots of it, with little equipment.
Now wine is a little bit more complicated, and takes a longer time to ferment. But I would think that those two would be the two types of alchoholic drinks that would still be around somewhat in the years after this Collapse thing gets underway.
Now the distilled stuff ( hard liquor like wiskey gin, rum, tequila, vodka, etc. ) would probably be more complicated to make, and would take longer to do, I would think. It would not impossible though - I would think that the knowledge of building stills would still survive post P.O. in the out-of-the-way bondock areas - if what I am told by my relatives in West Virginia is correct...
Any further thoughts on this subject?
I will be wandering the wasteland in the last of the V8 Interceptors in search of gas and food.
