What do you like? Thats the real question.

If i had to stock booze. Other than what id want to have in my personal collection. I woukd stock pure grain alcohol. Good solvent, good for medicine. And can cut it with water to make vodka strength so it takes about half the shelf space as 40%abv bottles

 

Are there any tips to keep in mind? .

Bargain priced 1/2 gallons in GLASS bottles by the case.

Whiskey, vodka, rum.

Drinkers aren't going to be that particular.

 

+1 on grain. I keep a few bottles in the preps plus a rotation of bourbon for me.

 

I don't drink alcohol and prefer that those around me don't. It's not a religious thing, it's a raised by a father who was nasty and violent when drunk thing. Drunk people aren't funny, nor fun, and I don't intend to "take care" of someone who did that to themselves.

Ok, mini-rant over.

I stock good liquor in small bottles for trade goods and possible bribe goods. Anyone can make jail house hooch so there's no gain in stocking cheap stuff. Save it for important things. Bourbon and Scotch seem to be the most popular among self-important people. Don't get REALLY expensive stuff, but nice known label stuff could be profitable. Vodka is usable for making a lot of medicines and as preservative in things like mouthwash and cooking extracts.

If you want pain relievers, sanitizers and solvents stock those. There are modern products on the market that do all of those so much better than booze. If you love your injured person use betadine when treating his wound (which you should have in your stores now). If you hate him, use whiskey. That'll teach him. ; )

 

not really alcohol makes a good disinfectint for equipment @70% same for mouth wash,
also you can use it to make other things like ether or chlorophorm in the even you need to perform minor surgery

 

Everclear or Gem 95 percent
Will disinfect, clean, get you liquored-up or run an engine.
I don't drink, but I have a store of the pure stuff

 

Everclear or Gem 95 proof
Will disinfect, clean, get you liquored-up or run an engine.
I don't drink, but I have a store of the pure stuff

i think your confused bro

its 95% abv


its 190 proof

 

Not confused, just a mistake. I do understand proof/%
Ever since I was a teenager
Bacardi 151 and coke
Even then, I knew it was 75.5% alcohol
We accidently lit a small fire at a Kiss concert with it back in the 70s
Stomped it out quick thankfully

 

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Sailor Jerry's & Pyrat Rum and if you can bootleg it, Havana Club!!!!!!!

 

I do not care what Hollywood says: it is not a good idea to pour alcohol into an injury: it damages the cells and slows down healing. A better way is to clean a would with sterile water and then give antibiotic pills.

Alcohol is perfectly useful for killing germs, just not in an open wound. It is a good way to disinfect your dirty hands or a set of forceps if they are not in a sterile package or whatever, but not so good in an open wound.

 

into a injury no but as a topical disinfectant yes, or to clean your med tools

 

into a injury no but as a topical disinfectant yes, or to clean your med tools

I carry 90% isopropyl alcohol. Besides disendecting Instruments, hand and areas adjacent to a wound, it also is a good fire accelerant and fuel for an alchohol stove. Hand sanitizer with a 70% alchohol content is also useful. I carry that too.

 

The bottles used in hand sanitizer are too thin to contain the alcohol long. They tend to offgas quickly - especially if exposed to heat. I've had them go, in a trailer, one summer to the next.

Alcohol for drinking? Exactly what others have said: Vodka for herbals, the darkest rum I can get for Vanilla extract, and whisky, just because. Oh, and beer and whine for actual drinking. (Sorry, was telling to children going to bed, got sidetracked and my fingers typed out actual experience instead, lol) We, incredibly rarely, drink anything hard.

 

I have a collection of booze started for possible bartering reasons, some of it we came by in a silent auction we attended, some of it is the little airline size stuff that I have bought or been given, we have 2 stores that let you pick one with a purchase over x amount.

Most of it is stuff I won't don't drink, but I add to it when I get the urge or come across something that's stupid cheap.

I have often wondered what a jug or a shot of booze would/will be worth if SHTF.

I guess to answer the question in the OP, I have vodka , whiskey , bourbon , brandy, rum and schnapps

 

I like vodka due to the fact it's also great for making medicinal tinctures from plants

 

Does alcohol like vodka, whiskey, rum etc have a shelf life or does it remain constant until evaporated?

 

Unopened glass bottles of booze will store indefinitely in cool, dark, clean, dry place.

 

Jack Daniels

 

Good...I mean really good Bourbon. If the SHTF, simple pleasures are going to far and few between. My simple pleasure is good Bourbon. As for bartering, something cheap.

 

The last time we had grain alcohol in the house my husband beat me up. Even he doesn't dare to get it again.

He is lousy at keeping a good inventory of booze. That's on him, when he's out, he's out. He is much nicer off the booze anyway.

Why would I want to stock something that hurts me?

I have other things, like coffee, sugar, and reading glasses, to barter when SHTF.

 

Everclear or Pharmco, also good stove fuel for your Trangia.

Should be kept under lock & key to prevent "evaporation" and stri ct rationing imposed to curtail abuse.

 

A few bottles of Everclear or another very high proof variety such as Bacardi 151.

Good for making herbal tinctures because it preserves the strength of fresh/dried herbs or even increases it (if folks think herbal tinctures are silly keep in mind Laudanum is/was an alcohol based tincture).

Can also be used as a disinfectant, (expensive) fuel, and of course drinking.

 

A bottle of something will get me a bit futher than money if I am asking someone for a favor. In theory beer would be better. But spirits keep better and are more compact.

 

Diversify, we try to keep some vodka, gin, rum, whiskey and a few specialty alcohols on hand at all times which we rarely use but are there if we want/need them.

I also try to keep at least a half dozen specialty beers on hand (six packs or twelve packs) as well as a keg of whatever I feel like having on tap (right now it is Sierra Nevada Pale Ale).

We do use vodka for making our own vanilla extract and as soon as I get my brewing setup back in operation, I will have a couple more beers on tap as well as homemade soda (I have a four tap kegerator).

 

Moonshine (190-proof) It's great fuel, and the best of all you can always mix it with any beverage :thumb:

 

The 'best' feature is that if you know what you are doing your white liquor should be pure ethanol, and free of all the other 'spirits' like: Acetone, Methanol, acetatea, Propanols, Butanol, and Amyl alcohol.

Those other spirits are the things responsible for hangovers.

They come off in the cuts. Some are in the head cuts and some are in the tail cuts.

Most commercial whiskey distilleries say that the head and tail cuts hold the flavor of the corn or rye, so they make the cuts, but then they add these other spirits back into the batch for flavor. This intentionally causes the product to give you hangovers.

Whereas a good clean white liquor has nothing in it capable of causing a hangover.

A good home distiller will produce a clean ethanol with no flavor. It can be mixed with a much wider variety of drinks, fruit punch, mint tea, etc.

 

I keep about 50 to 75 assorted single serving bottles around for bartering purposes , then party with them during the holidays and resupply every January to keep them fresh . I can't see bartering away a half gallon of good alcohol when maybe an assortment of 10 or 15 small bottles would work for the same trade .

 

dont waste the alcohol use a pressure canner/sterilizer

 

I'm afraid that's not a particularly recommended procedure for disinfecting skin prior to making an incision. (Or hands if the gloves have run out.)

 

Mini bottles of Everclear and vodka so small batches of tinctures can be made... once opened, the alcohol will evaporate from a bottle (even if reclosed). Keep the bottles and put the tinctures in them (labeled).

Mini bottles of 151, bourbon, and amaretto for Christmas cookies

All bottles, including minis, need to be glass.

If you stock moonshine, have the set-up, spare parts, know how to build/use it, and know how to source ingredients.

Ditto if you make wine and/or beer.

 

Mini bottles of Everclear and vodka so small batches of tinctures can be made... once opened, the alcohol will evaporate from a bottle (even if reclosed).

I just had a shot from a 1.75 litre bottle that's been below half an inch left in it and been that low for several years. Tastes just fine and still has plenty of potency.

What you say about evaporation makes sense and I always believed it but my experience has been that it's not a big cause for concern. Actual evaporation seems to be low enough to not be a big issue.

 

I would just stock up a little bit on everything. You never know who you're going to run into and what kind of liquor may be the perfect bartering tool.

For me personally, I would trade a good deal for some captain and coke in a true SHTF situation. Of course, I wouldn't allow myself to get too out of hand as you never know what could happen while you're drinking..

 

Coke's only good for a couple of months post SHTF. I sell soda for a living so I know.