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During those various prohibitions, was it illegal for anyone to either possess or manufacture alcohol for personal use?
I can't answer that offhand with assurity, I'd have to look into it.
As an offhand response...THE EIGHTEENTH AMENDMENT AND THE NATIONAL PROHIBITION ACT
Snip...The amendment does not directly prohibit the purchase or possession of alcoholic liquor for beverage purposes. Nor does the National Prohibition Act prohibit the purchase for such purpose, although prohibitions against purchase are contained in many state laws. "Section 25, Title II of the Act does expressly declare it to be unlawful to have or possess any liquor or property designed for the manufacture of liquor intended for use in violation of the Act, or which has been so used and makes such property subject to confiscation. Section 33 provides that after February 1, 1920 the possession of liquor not legally permitted shall be prima facie evidence that such liquor is kept for disposition in violation of the law. This latter section excepts from its operation liquor in one's private dwelling, while the same is occupied as his dwelling only provided such liquors are for use only for the personal consumption of the owner thereof and of his family residing therein and of his bona fide guests when entertained by him therein, placing the burden of proof upon the possessor to prove that such liquor was lawfully acquired, possessed and used.

THE VOLSTEAD ACT
Medicinal alcohol??? And people scoff at the concept of medicinal marijuana! HA!
SEC. 6. No one shall manufacture, sell, purchase, transport, or prescribe any liquor without first obtaining a permit from the commissioner so to do, except that a person may, without a permit, purchase and use liquor for medicinal purposes when prescribed by a physician as herein provided, and except that any person who in the opinion of the commissioner is conducting a bona fide hospital or sanatorium engaged in the treatment of persons suffering from alcoholism, may, under such rules, regulations, and conditions as the commissioner shall prescribe, purchase and use, in accordance with the methods in use in such institution, liquor, to be administered to the patients of such institution under the direction of a duly qualified physician employed by such institution.
All kinds of stuff could be done with alcohol if permits were aquired.
I would have to look into the other prohibitions to see what they entailed and I'm not real sure if that info can be found on the net. I'll try.

Michigan Reconsiders Drug-Lifer Sentencing 70 Years after the "Life for a Pint" Law
Snip...In 1927, the Michigan legislature revised the state criminal code to require that "habitual offenders" must serve mandatory life-time prison terms. Being slightly more lenient than the popular "three strikes" laws of the 1990s, the 1927 law defined habitual defenders as those who had committed four felonies. Under Michigan's state Prohibition law, possessing alcohol was a felony. Any person who had committed three felonies, whether alcohol violations or other crimes, was automatically sent to prison for life if he or she was caught with as little as a pint of an alcoholic beverage.