OT: Whiskey, Etc.

[Webstral]

As I stocked up for having my Irish-American and African-American family over for Thanksgiving, a horrible thought occurred to me. In 2000, where is the whiskey going to come from? Who's going to have enough grain to distill it?

For that matter, what will do without tea and coffee? I suppose there is some hope that a few of the communities along the East and Gulf Coasts will be able to obtain some from Brazil through the remnants of maritime trade, but the near-complete disruption of the overland trade networks will mean that folks in the Western states (and probably almost all of the other ones, too) will go without tea and coffee for a long, long time.

Oh, the horror! The horror!

Webstral

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Webstral

As I stocked up for having my Irish-American and African-American family over for Thanksgiving, a horrible thought occurred to me. In 2000, where is the whiskey going to come from? Who's going to have enough grain to distill it?

For that matter, what will do without tea and coffee? I suppose there is some hope that a few of the communities along the East and Gulf Coasts will be able to obtain some from Brazil through the remnants of maritime trade, but the near-complete disruption of the overland trade networks will mean that folks in the Western states (and probably almost all of the other ones, too) will go without tea and coffee for a long, long time.

Oh, the horror! The horror!

Webstral

I guess that's called being SOL. I'd have a worse time -- what would I do without Pepsi!

[jester]

Oh the horror! The horror! I now have visions of masses of unique youth in places like Portland and Seattle lost in a daze, jonesing for their fix. And leagions of baristas wander the countryside like the 100 ronin, without purpose causing havoc.

On a serious note,

Tea can be made from any number of herbs and plants. Coffee can be made from substituites such as chickory, burnt grain, or roasted acorns and even dandelion roots dried and roasted.

And you mention the Gulf Coasts don't forget that Coffee is produced in the Caribean and Mexico too. So, it should be available in and around the East Coast, Gulf Coast, Southern Border.

As I think about this, the Gateway to the Spanish Main module, the ship patrols the area in the Caribean and West Africa, again a good trade route where one could put in a cargo of coffee and rum and sugar from the Caribean, and even Tea from Africa and I would imagine some manufactured goods from the US.

Also, with the hop around Central and S. America you could probably pick up some food stuffs as well.

And lets not forget durring the California Goldrush and even the lumber rush in the 19th century many ships would sail up and down the West Coast of the US to Panama in about a week. So, a couple sailing ships working up and down the West Coast hitting Mexico and other portions of Central America they could easily pick up coffee from such places and bring them back to the west coast cities, and again rum would be available as well


Now, that also leads me to think that within a year or two after things fall apart and fuel being unavailable old clipper type ships will be refitted and pressed into service as well as larger pleasure sailboats and most likely a new cottage industry of newly made wooden schooner and clipper type sailing craft craft for coastal trade.

So, fear not Web, coffee will be available.

[headquarters]

at an equivalent of 1000 US dollars a cup

I think erzats coffee made from roasted peas etc will be possible .Thats what they made do with here during the 5 year nazi occupation -no line to the Caribeean open !

They also made shoes from fish skin .Yes- dried and cured fish "hides"..

all IMHO -of course

ps good point about out of work cranky barristas being the hordes of marauders out to pillage and burn..hairdos already in place just add nmachete and sawed off 12 gage..kidding

Heavens know I have poured enough cups my self during my studies to pay my way .I still dislike people ordering cappucinos.Such a hassel to make .

Originally Posted by jester

Oh the horror! The horror! I now have visions of masses of unique youth in places like Portland and Seattle lost in a daze, jonesing for their fix. And leagions of baristas wander the countryside like the 100 ronin, without purpose causing havoc.

On a serious note,

Tea can be made from any number of herbs and plants. Coffee can be made from substituites such as chickory, burnt grain, or roasted acorns and even dandelion roots dried and roasted.

And you mention the Gulf Coasts don't forget that Coffee is produced in the Caribean and Mexico too. So, it should be available in and around the East Coast, Gulf Coast, Southern Border.

As I think about this, the Gateway to the Spanish Main module, the ship patrols the area in the Caribean and West Africa, again a good trade route where one could put in a cargo of coffee and rum and sugar from the Caribean, and even Tea from Africa and I would imagine some manufactured goods from the US.

Also, with the hop around Central and S. America you could probably pick up some food stuffs as well.

And lets not forget durring the California Goldrush and even the lumber rush in the 19th century many ships would sail up and down the West Coast of the US to Panama in about a week. So, a couple sailing ships working up and down the West Coast hitting Mexico and other portions of Central America they could easily pick up coffee from such places and bring them back to the west coast cities, and again rum would be available as well


Now, that also leads me to think that within a year or two after things fall apart and fuel being unavailable old clipper type ships will be refitted and pressed into service as well as larger pleasure sailboats and most likely a new cottage industry of newly made wooden schooner and clipper type sailing craft craft for coastal trade.

So, fear not Web, coffee will be available.

[Targan]

Originally Posted by headquarters

They also made shoes from fish skin .Yes- dried and cured fish "hides".

There is a company here in Australia that makes high quality leather from fish skins. Also eel skins.

[Canadian Army]

Coffee can be made from substitutes such as chickory, burnt grain, or roasted acorns and even dandelion roots dried and roasted.

I had a roommate who drank chickory for awhile, she was trying kick her coffee addiction; the chickory stank up our kitchen really bad when it was brewed.

[Caradhras]

Lots of substitutes and home-brews would grow no doubt. Dandelion coffee is really good imo too.

I love Jester's idea of trade routes with clippers/sailing ships giving a potential campaign for a T2K group as either pirates or traders.

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Canadian Army

I had a roommate who drank chickory for awhile, she was trying kick her coffee addiction; the chickory stank up our kitchen really bad when it was brewed.

Confederate troops during the Civil War often drank chickory; they felt that it was awful, but better than nothing.

[General Pain]

Originally Posted by Webstral

As I stocked up for having my Irish-American and African-American family over for Thanksgiving, a horrible thought occurred to me. In 2000, where is the whiskey going to come from? Who's going to have enough grain to distill it?

For that matter, what will do without tea and coffee? I suppose there is some hope that a few of the communities along the East and Gulf Coasts will be able to obtain some from Brazil through the remnants of maritime trade, but the near-complete disruption of the overland trade networks will mean that folks in the Western states (and probably almost all of the other ones, too) will go without tea and coffee for a long, long time.

Oh, the horror! The horror!

Webstral

I must admit I allready started stocking up on booze....

[Legbreaker]

Originally Posted by General Pain

I must admit I allready started stocking up on booze....

Of course your problem is the stock gets depleted as fast as it can be built up!

[Webstral]

Originally Posted by Legbreaker

Of course your problem is the stock gets depleted as fast as it can be built up!

To the degree one can call that a problem...

Webstral

[pmulcahy11b]

Originally Posted by Webstral

To the degree one can call that a problem...

Webstral

Though I'm a teetotaler, I would guess that the real problem would occur when you use up your stocks faster than they can be replaced...