Sugar is what yeastie beasties convert into alchohol. In whatever form, grape sugar for wine, malted barley sugar for beer, cane sugar for rum, corn sugar for (standing, hat in hand) Tennesee Sour Mash.
As far as tobacco goes, you might want to have some on hand to trade for booze. ;)
/johnny
>>As far as tobacco goes, you might want to have some on hand to trade for booze. ;)<<
If I am trading tobacco for booze then we have gone to a prison economy. It may happen but there are other ways of influencing such an economy.
But I appreciate your wanting to help me keep the booze flowing: home made (using the sugar) or left in stores after the “collapse.”