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Originally Posted by WallShadow
-Jamaica, mon, for some Red Stripe beer. (Yay, beer!) And the bauxite. And the Blue Mountain Coffee--big time luxury item!
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THIS!!!-The coffee, not so much the beer. For as much as I like a good Red Stripe with shrimp or mahi, one could homebrew pretty much anywhere other than the polar ice caps. In fact, local brews would pretty much be it given the inability to transport beer effectively in a hot climate (there was a reason why I discovered African beer in HOA, that is, Miller Light does not respond well to being shipped from the US and then sitting out in 120 degree heat for weeks on end before going into the cooler at Camp Lemmonier).
HOWEVER, it is my understanding that growing coffee beans requires a specific climate that does not seem to exist in much of the US. If I was a local powerbroker with aspirations of being the President of the Texas Republic and I wanted to show that our Republic is the future of civilization, reintroducing coffee to a populace that has gone several years without it would be a big feather in my cap. Enough to pay others to kill for.