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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.

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.

knotquiteawake wrote: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.

What are the setup costs?

Dave2 wrote:

knotquiteawake wrote: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.

What are the setup costs?

I order from Austin Homebrew Supply, they have been a great company to work with. On their site a starter kit (fermentor, bottles, sanitizer, etc) is going to range between $78-$138 and $200-250 for some of the deluxe type kits.
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I started brewing 4 years ago so I consider it all a sunk cost at this point. For a 5 gallon batch of all grain (no extracts) its about $25 for 5 gallons which is about 50 beers. So about $0.50 for a good craft beer you made yourself. Craft beer in the store is usually $1.20 a bottle. If you do extract batches (basically somebody gets the sugars out of the grains for you and turns it into a syrup instead of you soaking grains in hot water) its a little more expensive, maybe closer to $0.80-$1.00 a bottle for homebrew. Still worth it IMO. The stronger your beer the longer the shelf life. So if you brew some strong stuff it will probably make it with you through the apocalypse.

We are putting in blueberries and peaches....can one make blueberry or peach wine?

mamabearCali wrote:We are putting in blueberries and peaches....can one make blueberry or peach wine?

yes, either one works
Making Blueberry Wine: Tips from the Pros
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Peach
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Mmmmmmm. Sounds yummy! Will do!

Me and the wife just started to prep.....

Just out of curiosity what are you all putting away in the area of gun mx? I want to buy spare parts for my AR and glocks. Also on my list is trying to buy alternative forms of lubrication in lue of using the name brands like hopps 9 ext. I figure normal CLP might be hard to find so I was going to stock up on a cheaper alternative that I can readily find in hardware/automotive stores. Any suggestions?

Bennies wrote:Me and the wife just started to prep.....

Just out of curiosity what are you all putting away in the area of gun mx? I want to buy spare parts for my AR and glocks. Also on my list is trying to buy alternative forms of lubrication in lue of using the name brands like hopps 9 ext. I figure normal CLP might be hard to find so I was going to stock up on a cheaper alternative that I can readily find in hardware/automotive stores. Any suggestions?

I can't claim to recommend it, but I know that some people go for plain old motor oil. I'm not sure how it'd hold up in a sustained fire fight, but I'm pretty sure that barrels don't normally get hotter than engines during regular use. And I've heard of people putting Glocks through the dishwasher (maybe that was just the slide or frame, though... I can't remember, sorry).

To lubricate a Glock don't you just ... "rub some dirt on it" ?