Rocky Prompts, Tennessee - 3. Prompt 132: Starting Over

Digging back to an April 2012 prompt. If anything, I think it's a view of an overly optimistic outcome. I do doubt anyone would need to produce alcohol to drink for quite a long while considering the huge stocks distilleries have maturing at any one time as well as the existing bottled stock along with a diminished population.

1 minute ago, drpaladin said:

Digging back to an April 2012 prompt. If anything, I think it's a view of an overly optimistic outcome. I do doubt anyone would need to produce alcohol to drink for quite a long while considering the huge stocks distilleries have maturing at any one time as well as the existing bottled stock along with a diminished population.

If you were to poll us Kentuckians what we'd ransack first... it's either Walmart or a distillery. 

45 minutes ago, astone2292 said:

If you were to poll us Kentuckians what we'd ransack first... it's either Walmart or a distillery. 

I'm sure you've heard the phrase "your eyes are bigger than your stomach." The US produces over 477 million liters of just whiskey a year, but this is only what goes out the door in bottles. You can multiply that many times over with years of maturing stock and this is just whiskey. You also have to factor in imported stock and what is still in warehouses or on shelves, Now beer is another story.

I'm still working on the stock from twenty years ago here, but I don't drink much.

1 hour ago, drpaladin said:

I'm sure you've heard the phrase "your eyes are bigger than your stomach." The US produces over 477 million liters of just whiskey a year, but this is only what goes out the door in bottles. You can multiply that many times over with years of maturing stock and this is just whiskey. You also have to factor in imported stock and what is still in warehouses or on shelves, Now beer is another story.

I'm still working on the stock from twenty years ago here, but I don't drink much.

I can only imagine what would happen to production from a nuclear fallout. 

What a clever punch-line!  But you were not joking, as we seem to be getting ever closer to an apocalypse of some sort. 

Hope is so deeply embedded in human DNA that we will forever keep pressing on, no matter what. Because that's what humans do.

Zeke

3 hours ago, ZekeNix said:

What a clever punch-line!  But you were not joking, as we seem to be getting ever closer to an apocalypse of some sort. 

Hope is so deeply embedded in human DNA that we will forever keep pressing on, no matter what. Because that's what humans do.

Zeke

I left a lot of room for imagination with this prompt. There was a war involving a virus. Nukes were involved. What the heck happened? Was is revealed it was manufactured? Did allies protect their friends too much? I'll let the readers decide; it might encourage some new authors...

1 hour ago, astone2292 said:

I left a lot of room for imagination with this prompt. There was a war involving a virus. Nukes were involved. What the heck happened? Was is revealed it was manufactured? Did allies protect their friends too much? I'll let the readers decide; it might encourage some new authors...

The encouragement is so noted

Zeke

And there you go, another great impetus for a story...I'm a gonna have to look into using some of the prompts!!!

Sandefur and Clemont focused on agriculture. Those corn farmers are living the high life now. They provide fuel, food, and booze. Everything an American needs, am I right?

1 hour ago, drsawzall said:

And thewre you go, another great impetus for a story...I'm a gonna have to look into using some of the prompts!!!

Sandefur and Clemont focused on agriculture. Those corn farmers are living the high life now. They provide fuel, food, and booze. Everything an American needs, am I right?

Go digging in the old pages of Peeks and Prompts in the Writer's Circle! There are some goodies in there.