Hello Annie,
you are quite right about the sloe/blackberry gin being good for gifts, but most of my family have either given up drinking almost completely or they have a problem there , so I wouldn't want to be the one to add to it...
. The bartering side may well come in handy though , if things keep going as they are . The only problem there is I am almost completely broke and couldn't afford the gin in the first place.....I have thought about making a still though , to make ethanol for fuel . Ethanol being alcohol so I could go into the moonshine buisiness...lol (that was a joke any customs men reading). I have enough scrap to make a still , and can grow enough stuff to convert so , maybe worth having a go.....er for fuel that is ... not moonshine ....
I watched the new version of Survivors on tv recently, and remembered the original from the seventies,so looked on youtube and there it was. It struck me about halfway through the first series, that I am doing what they were trying to do in the program...lol ...Oh well , if armageddon strikes I will be ok .
Now where are those still plans.....?
cheers
Russ