Hoarding Liquor in Time of Financial Crisis

It seems like all of the doom sayers are speaking a little louder these days - I've been seeing increased discussion about "survivalists" who are preparing their gold, guns & ammo, freeze dried food, and bottled water to prepare for the imminent fall of mankind, due to whatever it is exactly that all of the business news programs are talking about these days.

I wonder how valuable a commodity liquor (e.g. bourbon, or rum) would be in times of total societal meltdown? My guess would be pretty high. I bet I could get a whole year's worth of freeze dried mashed potatoes & gravy in exchange for a fifth of Jack Daniels. Rum was actually used as currency during American colonialism. Some historians even credit alcohol (beer) as the motivation for establishment of human civilization. It's true; look it up.

I'm opposed to buying anything in bulk and building any type of emergency supply because I think it is one of the pinnacles of Supersized Americanism. But if there is one thing I would buy up in bulk if I felt that world civilization were on the verge of collapse: rum. I would fill my apartment with bottles of the best stuff, and hire a militia of illegal immigrants armed with AK47's to protect my stash. True, I prefer bourbon, but I figure it would be tougher to get rum into the country if there was some sort of total apocalypse, making it more valuable. Like cockroaches, the only intact body of the US federal government would be the Department of Homeland Security.

You can relax. I have only one bottle of rum in my home, because, according to me, things are just dandy right now.