mamabearCali wrote:I am stockpiling tea, sugar, bullet, and flour.....why? Cause I think just about everyone down south we be perfectly happy living on venizon, biscuits, and sweet tea! As far as alcohol goes I am sure putting some up would be a smart idea. I also think that perhaps learning how to make it would be wise as well. Thinking wine here y'all....don't want the feds to bust down my door.
mamabear, you can make wine, mead, beer, or any other kind of non-distilled alcohol up to 200gallons per person per household for personal use. If you have grapes or bees (for honey) you pretty much are all set to be in the post-apocalyptic spirits business!
I already make my own beer and have my first batch of mead fermenting. Wine is even easier! Probably the easiest to make! It can be as simple as pouring grape juice and some water into a plastic bucket, covering it, adding some yeast, waiting a couple months, bottle and cork it, wait 6-12 months, and voila! You have wine!
Beer involves seeping grains, adding hops, boiling wort, so its a bit more complicated but I can go "grain to glass" in about 3 weeks with a 5 gallon batch.
Mead is about as easy as wine, mix honey and water, adding some raisins or spices or other fruit, let it ferment for 6months or so, bottle it for a year, and its ready.
Just gotta plug the "homebrewing" hobby. Its really great, you learn a lot about your favorite drinks (wine, mead, hard cider, beer...). If you don't count the setup costs, the price per batch of beer is a lot cheaper than the premium craft brews, and tastes as good or better. Its of course not as cheap as bud/miller/coors though.