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Black Leviathan · 07-09-2019, 10:51 AM

Wine/cider is easy, in fact you can make it by accident if you don't keep things orderly in your orchard. However you don't see a lot of orchards in post apocalypse movies and if there's fruit around people likely need it for nutrition. "Beer" can be made from a variety of grains that are more durable than fruits. But it would be a lot harder to drink than what we bottle today and can be a bit toxic.

Meads just taste great, and whatever in the environment that doesn't kill the bees won't kill you if you drink they honey.

Ethanol is the intoxicant for most liquors. Any survivor group that is making ethanol to power machines has all of the building blocks to build clean distilled liquor and probably the expertise to do a good job of it. There's still some risk from toxicity but multi-pass distilling would greatly reduce toxins and make the hooch much more smooth.

07-09-2019, 10:51 AM	#39
Black Leviathan Join Date: Sep 2018	Re: Post apocalypse alcohol Wine/cider is easy, in fact you can make it by accident if you don't keep things orderly in your orchard. However you don't see a lot of orchards in post apocalypse movies and if there's fruit around people likely need it for nutrition. "Beer" can be made from a variety of grains that are more durable than fruits. But it would be a lot harder to drink than what we bottle today and can be a bit toxic. Meads just taste great, and whatever in the environment that doesn't kill the bees won't kill you if you drink they honey. Ethanol is the intoxicant for most liquors. Any survivor group that is making ethanol to power machines has all of the building blocks to build clean distilled liquor and probably the expertise to do a good job of it. There's still some risk from toxicity but multi-pass distilling would greatly reduce toxins and make the hooch much more smooth.