Listen - I don't know how to be any more blunt about the advantage of having alcohol available in a disaster. If you got alcohol after a disaster, you can get laid. Easily. So I hope you are chuckling at that comment, read on and watch the video I have on alcohol production, its SO easy, and listen to the 2 audio classes I have on it. You'll learn a lot more than you could imagine. The video is only 21 minutes long, and that's as long as it needs to be, I am very very to the point and step by step on how to ferment and distill triple distilled alcohol. Ok...so we know that alcohol, moonshine, etc is a great trading commodity during a disaster. After Hurricane Sandy hit Pennsylvania, the "State Alcohol Stores" were shut down for 2 days. On day 3 there was a line of people going in and out of it like ants. Half the shelves were empty. Boy do we have an alcohol issue in this country. People will do anything for alcohol especially if everything is shut down for a week. You can trade a water bottle full of moonshine for just about anything; toilet paper, ammo, fuel, you name it. (I'd put in 80 proof 'moonshine' in bottles, NOT 180 proof I show how to make, that is for making triple distilled top shelf stuff). TWO THINGS 1. It is NOT illegal to own a Moonshine Still in the USA. 2. It *IS* 100% ILLEGAL to DISTILL ANY amount (even 1 drop) of moonshine in the USA without a permit. So if you want to make moonshine I'd suggest you store it in regular water battles, 8 or 16 oz water bottles. Put them back in the case and put them on the shelf with your regular water. They will look the same. I show you HOW 100% in the video above how easy it is to make alcohol fuel for cars, and that is 100% the same as moonshine or vodka. So if you do this in the privacy of your kitchen, do not tell anyone, do not drink it, do not sell it. Make it and store it for an emergency. Loose Lips Sink Ships and get you in Jail. When the world has collapsed and its time to trade it, take a sharpie and put X X X on the bottle and trade it for anything you want. X X X use to by the marking for moonshine, it mean distilled X times, so X X X is three times. WANT TO STORE ALCOHOL LEGALLY For Disaster Trading??? Ok.. so if you want to do the above legally you can do the following. 1. Buy big bottles of cheap vodka and keep small 8 oz water bottles for distributing it later. Trading in smaller portions is a higher value than trading a whole big bottle. Right now, in Alaska, in many native towns it is ILLEGAL to OWN, let alone DRINK alcohol. "Boot leggers" or Alcohol "Smugglers" will get $400 or more for a 5th of Vodka they pay $15 for. That is how valuable alcohol is where there is none. So trade in 8oz bottles, not whole 5th's or 1.75 liters of vodka. ( Don't believe me ? Watch Alaska State Troopers on the NATGEO Channel ) 2. Get 5 gallon pails with sugar and water as described above and add grape juice and make wine. IT IS *LEGAL* to make wine in the USA for personal consumption. When the world fails, who's going to care what you do with it or trade it for. That is ALL Wine is... water, sugar, yeast and grape juice concentrate. 3. Learn to brew beer, plenty of videos on youtube on how to do this. Brew beer and store it and use this for trade when the world ends. Again, you can make beer and wine for personal consumption. You can't legally sell it without a license. 4. Its smarter (but more illegal) to make moonshine BEFORE a disaster and store it as I described. However there is nothing illegal about storing sugar, yeast and water and then you can illegally make moonshine after the world has collapsed and there is no federal law enforcement. You'd HAVE to have a fair amount of electricity to do it. So if you have a generator that runs on natural gas then you have all of the power you need to make the moonshine. If you have a large solar system, that will work as well. It takes about 600+ watts to run the still for 45 minutes to make your first batch. 5. For the RECORD. I am talking about possibilities for what some people might want to do, both illegal and legal, but we are talking about living in a time when there is no law except for your 870 shotgun. For the record, I have 100% NEVER ever taken an illegal drug in my life, not even pot, nor will I ever do so and I have never made alcohol outside of a location where we were making it for Alcohol Fuel purposes with a Federal TTB Alcohol Fuel Permit. I am NOT telling you to make illegal alcohol in the USA. I AM telling you that it is a Federal Crime to make it without a federal permit and and in many cases a state permit. 6. If you want to know how to make alcohol LEGALLY in the USA for Alcohol Fuel Purposes, see ALL of my explicit details at http://www.iMakeMyGas.com I talk about how to get a permit (free from the US Government) and make Alcohol Fuel. Note: that is an ALCOHOL STILL on iMakeMyGas.com These are NOT WATER DISTILLERS.... you CANNOT use a WATER DISTILLER for the production of alcohol. Water distillers have a higher power level, a higher temperature and they have chlorine vents and stuff that will let the alcohol out when trying to distill it. DO NOT use a 'WATER DISTILLER' for production of alcohol.