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[Zarhon]

Sunshine: A brew of elven origin, made from the elusive "Sun Berries", berries that grow only outside, in the sun, in a wet & good biome. By all accounts, this pansy beverage should be the bane of every dwarf in existance, a mockery of beverages everywhere. Yet for some reason, this beverage is the most valuable beverage, with a value of 5 dorfbucks (compare underground mushroom beverages, which value at 2 dorfbucks, or the 2nd most expensive beverage, "Whip Wine", which only costs 3 dorfbucks)! How can this be? Is this beverage, despite it's pansy origins, in fact the ultimate beverage, one that can cause the dwarf who drinks it to weep in joy? Or is it a cruel joke, played by the creator, the great Toady One, upon his own booze-loving creation?

[Il Palazzo]

Sunshine is so expensive, because good laxatives are so hard to come by in DF.

[Ultimuh]

Who say's that it's anti-dwarfy to drink just because it's made by the elves?

[Deon]

I also made moonshine in Genesis. I don't know why is there sunshine and no moonshine...

Well, it must be another mystery like many others... For example, why did Toady One remove ratmen .

[HideousBeing]

A dwarf must brave his two biggest enemies to acquire sunshine: elves and the sun. Only after bloodying the brew in battle, can sunshine be made. This is the most dwarfy drink possible.

[abculatter_2]

A dwarf must brave his two biggest enemies to acquire sunshine: elves and the sun. Only after bloodying the brew in battle, can sunshine be made. This is the most dwarfy drink possible.

Or you could just find it next to a pond and grow it. You still have to confront the sun at some point, though.

[Ilmoran]

I also made moonshine in Genesis. I don't know why is there sunshine and no moonshine...

Well, it must be another mystery like many others... For example, why did Toady One remove ratmen .

Well, you could call all the alcohol moonshine
But sunshine is made from sun berries, and there's no moon berries, so no moon shine :-p
Also, is there a moon? 

[Caldfir]

DWARVEN sun berries are grown by collapsing a 3x3 region that extends to the surface into the magma sea, and watering it to make a muddy obsidian floor. 

[The_Fool76]

It's all about supply and demand. No self respecting dwarf would farm on the surface and no self respecting dwarf would actually trade with the elves (Magma baths do bad things to berries).  Thus sunshine is quite rare which makes it more expensive.

[Nikov]

Sunshine sounds like 120 proof glowing happiness in a bottle. Now compare that to fermented pig tails.

[Rotten]

Who say's that it's anti-dwarfy to drink just because it's made by the elves?

Yeah, my adventurers drink the blood of their enemies (read: elves) all the time!

[Deathworks]

Hi!

Sunshine sounds like 120 proof glowing happiness in a bottle. Now compare that to fermented pig tails.

For once, Nikov and I agree on something :) :)
I couldn't have worded it half as well as you have done in the above quote.

Deathworks

[Nikov]

Hi!

Sunshine sounds like 120 proof glowing happiness in a bottle. Now compare that to fermented pig tails.

For once, Nikov and I agree on something
I couldn't have worded it half as well as you have done in the above quote.

Deathworks

I was being sarcastic. Everyone knows the best booze is Sailor Jerry Spiced Rum, and the best booze in Dwarf Fortress is Dwarven Rum. Not some namby pamby herbal 'liqueur'. And the implication we would ever agree on something is, frankly, obscene.

[Satarus]

Sewer Brew, king of booze!

[Djohaal]

Actually herbal brew sounds interesting. Dwarven absynth anyone?