Considering how many bars and clubs we come across, feel like there's some plants in indoor grow houses or hydroponic farms for making alcohol. Need some source of sugar for fermenting, herbs and spices for infusions, etc. Probably not high quality considering how Mezz reacts to it but enough to get the job done.
I can see your point, although I imagine there would be cases of simply scrounging up pre-bottled booze from old buildings and such, which feels like the purview of Junkers mentioned in Scratch's computer. I bet this would also apply to other commodities, like pre-rolled tobacco products, canned or sealed foods, soda, even bottled water.
Again, Bitshift obviously decides what is canon. I'm simply speculating based on my own understanding of how these types of worlds tend to work in relation to resources.
You're both somewhat correct. Although I doubt it'll ever matter to the game in a major way, most food in the setting is either scavenged from pre-disaster ruins, or fresh-created stuff. The fresh stuff is mostly either nasty but nutritionally-balanced paste, or extremely questionable street food ala Demolition Man (remember the fried rat the one vendor sells). Pre-disaster society had absurdly good preservation tech, as evidenced by the burger description, so there's still a lot of that to find in the ruins, but it's still somewhat rare and requires work and risk to dig up, so it's more of a delicacy for the rich (with the possible exception of a few items, like the hamburger, that were SO mass-produced they're everywhere). Alcohol keeps well anyway (well, some of it), but I'd guess the bars are stocked with a mix of dug up relics and fresh stuff, since booze, like drugs, probably commands a high enough profit margin to make hydroponics and grow operations worthwhile, especially in The Gutter. Quality and ingredients are obviously going to go down outside of there though; most of what Havens sell is probably only slightly better than moonshine.
Figured it was either high proof but questionable or Mezz was a lightweight considering how easy it is to get him blackout drunk or slutting it up in the host club lol .
Related note, working on some fan cocktails based on the games. Got a couple that aren't finalized yet but when they are I'll have the specs on FA and link to it in the fanart chat I guess.