Dwarves are big importers, especially of charcoal. Like herdsmen, dwarves and city-dwellers, dwarves like in societies that are highly dependent on trade or tribute. Fortunately, dwarves have all this gold...Hussar said:But, hang on. Dwarves live underground. They don't farm wheat or barley, or at least, they're not known for it.
Actually, the main thing that limited European beer production in the Middle Ages was charcoal -- energy needed to be cheap and available to produce beer on the grand scale. Clearly, the dwarves have available (if not cheap) energy on a grand scale, given all their smelting.Where does all that beer come from?
Why do Dwarves drink Whiskey or Ale?
Storyteller01 said:There are stories of jail prisoners making alcoholic drinks by tossing bread and fruit/desserts into a bag, letting the yeast ferment (typing from memory, so if anyone has the details let me know).
It isn't much of a stretch to believe that they have tubers/fruits for a base, and some fungus that acts as the yeast. Get past that, and the distilling shouldn't be a problem (dwarves do get a bonus for metalworking... )
Ants and bees are very closely related. They belong to the same suborder, and most ants possess a vestigal stinger from when ants, bees and wasps were all the same creature. They have the same life cycle, colony structure and powerful brains developed to communicate with each other. They are also both very skilled farmers and manufacturers of food.Warehouse23 said:2) Honey harvested from cliff-roosting bees.