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Originally Posted by Neal5x5
IIRC, there is a blurb in the 2013 book about coffee becoming the new cocaine and export of coffee beans being one of the few highly profitable ventures still going from South America. Coffee is grown in 70 countries, so if there is any contact in the area with contacts who travel around Africa, Arabia, Central or South America, or Asia, it will likely include coffee. Even the artificial stuff will likely be be around (such as Postum was in the US during WWII).
Also, even in times of famine, beer production will likely be around. It's a high caloric beverage (like drinking your bread) and much less likely to infect the drinker with waterborne diseases. If there's bread, then there is likely beer.
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Coffee and tobacco have been grown in Turkey and around the Mediterranean for a long time--main problem in T2K is transport. Once you can get some tobacco seed, it can be cultivated, but at great cost to the soil quality, from what I understand. Beer and bread production have been linked for, oh, about forever--just skim the yeast barm off the top of the brew in process and you've got leavening for bread.
I caught the oblique reference to "Mudder's Milk"
And remember, Ben Franklin got it right when he said that wine (and by extension, beer) "is a constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."