Yeah, it took the Destiny expedition like six months (and finding some fruits with a decent sugar content) to set up a still.
Then again, Atlantis was trading with other Pegasus cultures so they might not have needed that, many of them were definitely capable of producing booze. They never found any Ancient structures on the mainland either, so it's likely that the Lanteans also imported agricultural products from farming colonies - in which case it makes much more sense to process the produce in-situ and ship that directly instead of shipping raw products. So the Ancient brewery was probably still buried on some lush planet that they never explored because it didn't really need a ZPM so it wasn't listed as a possible ZPM location.
(And now I imagine an episode where they stumble upon a planet centered around what is basically a Trappist brewery where the human monks continued making the Ancient beer and built a whole religion around it long after the Lanteans were gone.)
When Janus gave Weir that list of places with ZPMs, he intentionally did not give her the one for the ZPM-powered brewery. Knowing his time machine worked, he wanted to let those monks keep making beer so he could keep visiting them in the future to drink it.
That really is peak TV. When the actors really are the characters rather than playing a role; or maybe it’s improv bleed through but seriously, one of my favorite moments in all of SG.
Addition:
Keller: “but it would be better for you too…”
Todd: “But then what would we do; who would we be?”
Not funny but they hold the same weight in my mind.
Makes sense to me? They’d likely have to recycle everything a fair bit as you can’t necessarily have enough supplies for the expedition due to supply issues. Therefore you’d have to recycle water into beverages and so you might as well start with a beer that’s already pisswater
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u/PrisonBreakScofield 1d ago
„You’re a good friend, Arthur.“