Brewing After the Zombie Apocalypse

[Ouroboros]

The existing beer will be gone over or destroyed in 1-2 years.

While you guys are wishing you were hung over, I will be kilning my malt, harvesting hops, making barrels, and hopefully procreating, and eating well.

Where will you get your barley or hops after the collapse of civilization? I know you'll grow them, but where do you get the seeds/rhizomes? Unless you already have a stockpile in your "doom bunker," you're going to need to brave the horde to get your startup supplies. So you'll need gasoline for your urban assault vehicle and chainsaw, shells for your shotgun, and polish for your cricket bat.

 

[shamrockdoc]

Hence preparation now along with a gathering of highly trained operative friends should be the answer. Were all gonna need security right how else will we harvest our crops

 

[Jughead]

I thought the scenario involved gathering supplies and bouncing off to your own secluded fortress of solitude island? If so you should be able to get supplies in one swift kamakaze run: Sporting goods store, Beer Distributor, LHBS (maybe), grain store for seeds, local college campus (hey you need breeding stock). Oh and a hardware store for the cricket bat polish, haha. Ah screw it, I'm just gonna get all this together now, 2012 isn't too far away. I'm heading to PSU. FWIW, something is gonna happen dec. 2012, don't know if it will be zombie Aporkalypse, but might not be too far off. Or maybe instead of rain, we'll have beer fall from the sky....we can hope!:rockin:

 

[cheezydemon3]

Where will you get your barley or hops after the collapse of civilization? I know you'll grow them, but where do you get the seeds/rhizomes? Unless you already have a stockpile in your "doom bunker," you're going to need to brave the horde to get your startup supplies. So you'll need gasoline for your urban assault vehicle and chainsaw, shells for your shotgun, and polish for your cricket bat.

Good questions.....

I thought the scenario involved gathering supplies and bouncing off to your own secluded fortress of solitude island? If so you should be able to get supplies in one swift kamakaze run: Sporting goods store, Beer Distributor, LHBS (maybe), grain store for seeds, local college campus (hey you need breeding stock). Oh and a hardware store for the cricket bat polish, haha. Ah screw it, I'm just gonna get all this together now, 2012 isn't too far away. I'm heading to PSU. FWIW, something is gonna happen dec. 2012, don't know if it will be zombie Aporkalypse, but might not be too far off. Or maybe instead of rain, we'll have beer fall from the sky....we can hope!:rockin:

Great answer!

 

[Mischief_Brewing]

The existing beer will be gone over or destroyed in 1-2 years.

While you guys are wishing you were hung over, I will be kilning my malt, harvesting hops, making barrels, and hopefully procreating, and eating well.

I'll just become a beer pirate and raid your little island brewery...

 

[Ouroboros]

I'll just become a beer pirate and raid your little island brewery...

I have quite a bit of molasses at my place. If ye be pirtatin', ye best take with ye a few barrels o' rum.

 

[cheezydemon3]

I'll just become a beer pirate and raid your little island brewery...

Come get some..... Just bring something to trade.

I have quite a bit of molasses at my place. If ye be pirtatin', ye best take with ye a few barrels o' rum.

Truth be told....I would be fermenting a ton of brown sugar and water at some point. Quasi rum.

If there is some room (what with all of the barley, wheat, and hops springing up)growing some sugar cane, and maybe some FOOD....might be wise.

 

[QuixoticDevice]

What do zombies brew with?

GRRRRAAAAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS!

*badum-chissh*

 

[captianoats]

What do zombies brew with?

GRRRRAAAAAAAAAIIIINNNNSSSS!

*badum-chissh*

Worst...Joke...Ever

I would just brew whatever I could get my hands on. Let's face it, making fermented pine needles would make you the coolest refugee around.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Worst...Joke...Ever

I would just brew whatever I could get my hands on. Let's face it, making fermented pine needles would make you the coolest refugee around.

The joke wasn't that bad.

And yes, trash can rum or pine needle whiskey would be far better than eternity on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm that would cause.

 

[Ouroboros]

And yes, trash can rum or pine needle whiskey would be far better than eternity on the wagon, and all the irreparable harm that would cause.

I imagine you'd figure out how to ferment practically anything under the sun. All you need is a source of simple sugars, right?

 

[cheezydemon3]

I imagine you'd figure out how to ferment practically anything under the sun. All you need is a source of simple sugars, right?

No TV and the inevitable loss of "the internets" would leave me craving a drink at some point.

Is that so WRONG?

 

[Ouroboros]

No TV and the inevitable loss of "the internets" would leave me craving a drink at some point.

Is that so WRONG?

Absolutely not... loss of the internet and TV will suck, no doubt, but not having power to listen to music and not being able to take books with you when you evacuated (since they would slow you down)... that would make it even worse.

When the power goes out, I know I can just put on my ipod and read. But when Z-day arrives, the power is never coming back on. Of course, you'll be able to avoid boredom for the first couple of years by shooting zombies. But after that, the horde will start to thin out and disperse. Then you'll have to worry about going stir crazy. If you don't have some way to get some music going and have a few drinks, it's gonna suck.

 

[cheezydemon3]

Good point. An acoustic guitar will also be a must, as well as 30 or so sets of strings.

 

[Ouroboros]

Oh, yeah. I'd definitely be looting the music store before the outbreak gets out of hand.

 

[cheezydemon3]

My set of Bocce balls and Croquet set could double as blunt weapons, so I would manage to take them as well, however heavy.