Skip the porn. There will be plenty of post-shtf hotties available to give the real thing. Think Burning man, but with no end..

I agree, stockpiles of beer are not as practical as regular liquor. Storage is definitely an issue though if someone with an alcohol problem has access to your cache.

As for particular brands, I think maybe you could do well just to get advice from local liquor store employees. They would probably be happy to point you in the right direction of what is on sale, what makes for good storage, and which types can do better in long term storage.

California is a very Liquor friendly state, and in spite of high taxes actually has some of the lowest net prices in the nation because so many places sell liquor to the point that the plastic gallons are fairly common, although I understand they can have long term storage issues. Glass stores well, but if you really wanted to be on to something the game would be having it in the wooden barrels. I have never done it that way and could imagine it would be difficult to set up but once you have that, then ten and twenty years down the road you really have something of value.

Just taking the advice of liquor store owner/employees helped me save a few hundred when I was stocking my home bar and that stuff adds up very quickly. I would also consider advising people to look into wines at the discount stores, since there are bargains in those places too, but some wines are better than others when it comes to longer term storage.

The only route I never personally stepped up to was stocking a wine cellar direct from wineries buy purchasing case lots.

A lot of this is going to depend on the storage space that you have available, and whether or not you plan on being mobile. The whole idea of having a moonshine still is a lot like being set up for reloading. One upon a time, I had well over $1200 in Dillon reloading equipment that I hardly ever used in a time of $89.95 cases of Wolf ammo. I eventually passed off the equipment to a fellow survivor on the agreement that he would get it at a special discount, as long as he did some special loads for me from time to time, like my target ammo and tracers. He of course sold the equipment the day he figured he could make a profit on it, then brought back my unloaded tracer bullets a few months later, saying he never found out what sort of powder would be the best to use, so he never did the reloading. In the meantime, I was buying cases of ammo every time I went to a gun show and trucking the ammo to my home area and selling it at a nominal markup. Thus my SHTF supply got bigger, fresher and factory made.

On the alcohol side, I think it might not be such a bad idea to get involved businesswise in some sort of small roadhouse/bar, either official or private. Privately, this is done as a "clubhouse" which can then be rented out by people for parties, or private events. Laws vary a little bit on it state by state but generally there is not going to be a law against stockpiling the liquor and having a bar in your house.