This is not an expedition, remember? This is a colonisation. The organisers of the trip are realists.<br/><br/>In prisons, you take a slice of white bread and put it in a bottle, then add a carton of fruit juice. You hide it somewhere and leave it for a few days/weeks, occasionally letting out the CO<sub>2</sub>, and eventually, I have been told by those who know these things, you have something that will get you drunk, and if you're very lucky, won't make you go blind!<br/><br/>Point being that making alcohol is a normal human activity. Ban it and you make it dangerous - as the USA found out in the 1930s.<br/><br/>Oh and the legal drinking age on Mars is 18, in line with the rest of the Solar System except one little portion of one planet where it's 21.<br/><br/><div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=148593.msg7025471#msg7025471">Quote from: mia h on 05-10-2012, 23:58:37</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">The booze in the crates is fine, but the stuff that's been left behind 30 years stored at below freezing won't have done it any good and glass bottles would likely have shattered as the contents froze. Best stick to the stuff in the crates :p<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Uh... yeah. Hadn't thought of that. I don't think it's the freezing that is the problem, necessarily, but the constant freeze-thaw because the freezing-point of alcohol is in the middle of the Martian temperature range!