Originally Posted by
.429&H110
Let me try to retell 1792...
1792 we didn't have much, but by God, we could grow corn.
We could eat it, barnyard pets could eat it, but the wife wanted more stuff. Wives being what they were, America went out back, made whisky. I blame women for indoor plumbing, too. Anyway, whiskey was portable, the henpecked husband could swap whiskey for anything on earth that she wanted. Whiskey is better than money, you can't drink gold, but you can sell whiskey for gold. Our brand new Federal gov't wanted to have banks currency oligarchs tolls and taxes, so George Washington taxed whiskey, then settled the Whiskey Rebellion more or less.
Nowadays, most places, you can own a still. You just can't sell untaxed whiskey.
Beer is good stinky fun to make, my mother made 20 proof ginger beer.
You need some clean blue barrels, fire, water, real glass deposit bottles, a recipe
and the hoarders will bring you their gold.
Come the revolution it won't be safe to drink the unchlorinated city water.
We have forgotten about typhoid, Abe Lincoln's son Willy died of that.
Maybe don't bother with whiskey, if you have a spring, sell water.
There will be no gasoline, diesel, propane, electricity, it's not something I want to live to see.
My dad taught me "Everybody needs a schtick". What can you do that is useful.