[crusher]

“a good local microbrewed beer or ale.”

I’ve been a good teetotalling protestant all my life, but recently I heard an episode of The Survival Podcast about brewing that actually had my mouth watering. So being an info junkie I ordered the brewer’s bible, and have assembled plans for a still. We’ve got tons of heritage apples out in the country, and can only process so many. I’m thinking aple jack and brandy will have some serious barter value in the coming medieval economy.

[Still Thinking]

Jesus made (and even drank) wine, you know. It’s drunkenness you have to avoid.

[Still Thinking]

Sorry, my last post was a little blunt. I really shouldn’t dismiss others’ religious convictions, well, dismissively i guess. Still, I am curious. What’s the doctrinal foundation?

[Publius]

In the early days of America, the Continental Dollar, which had become nearly worthless through inflation, didn't even circulate on the frontier, which in those days was western Pennsylvania and New York. So people used barter. Farmers preserved the value of their fields and orchards by brewing beer products or distilling whiskies and brandies from grains and fruit. A barrel of beer or cask of whiskey or brandy had a known value at a general store or trading post when traded for a barrel of flour, a bolt of gingham or hemp cloth, machine tools or a side of bacon.

The frontier was on the Alcohol Standard, which was why the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794 was such a big deal. You've made good choices.