Your very first foray into the world of speakeasies. It gives you a way to sell your booze without having to spend every turn going around trying to sell what you make, so you can focus on exploring, getting to know people, and expanding territory.
The bootlegging ops don’t sell a lot each turn, but they do sell your goods for twice the price you get when you sell to businesses, so it’s a nice way of producing money in the background.
Full name of operation depends on type of booze sold, e.g. Backroom Brick Wine Bootlegger, Backroom Hard Cider Bootlegger, etc.
| Backroom [T1 alcohol] Bootlegger | |
|---|---|
| Produces | Money |
| Sells (choice of one) | 20 Brick Wine every 49 days (7 turns) 20 Hard Cider every 35 days (5 turns) 25 Homemade Beer every 28 days (4 turns) 10 Moonshine every 28 days (4 turns) 30 Applejack (Pittsburgh) every 58 days (9 turns) 24 Fruit Wine (Detroit) every 35 days (5 turns) 24 Homemade Brandy (Philadelphia) every 35 days (5 turns) |
| Requirements | Skill: Backroom Bootlegging |
| Build cost | -$1000 10 Lumber |
| Build time | 42 days (6 turns) |
| Expansions | 2 |
| Upgrades/ Downgrades | Improved Backroom Bootlegger Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy |
Please note that the Fruit Wine bootlegger in Detroit and the Applejack bootlegger in Pittsburgh can’t be Improved. There is no option to make them return crocks. Their only upgrading/downgrading options are:
| Applejack (Pittsburgh) | Fruit Wine (Detroit) | |
|---|---|---|
| Downgrade | Hard Cider (only) | Brick Wine (only) |
| Upgrade | Applejack Hard Cider | Brick Wine Fruit Wine |
Improved Backroom Bootlegger
The Improved version returns as many Stoneware Crocks as the base number you sell, but this doesn’t scale up if you add expansions and level up the manager, so even if you get it to sell 20 Moonshine, you’ll still only get 10 Stoneware Crocks back.
Please note that the Fruit Wine bootlegger in Detroit and the Applejack bootlegger in Pittsburgh can’t be Improved. There is no option to make them return crocks, as detailed in the previous section.
Upgrading from Improved to Expanded gives you twice as many returned crocks.
 | Improved [T1 alcohol] Backroom Bootlegger |
|---|---|
| Produces | Money and Stoneware Crocks |
| Sells | (Exactly the same as the Backroom Bootlegger above) |
| Requirements | Skill: Sanitary Measures |
| Upgrade cost | -$250 5 Pipes |
| Build time | 14 days (2 turns) |
| Expansions | 2 |
| Upgrades/ Downgrades | Backroom Bootlegger Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy |
Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger
An Expanded Bootlegger sells two types of T1 alcohol. The option you get to upgrade to is based on what the original one was. For instance, if you had a Backroom Brick Wine Bootlegger, your option will be the one that primarily sells Brick Wine, but you get to choose which other alcohol it sells.
Upgrading your basic or improved bootlegging op to this will trigger the mission to gain the skill allowing you to build (or upgrade to) a Corner Speakeasy.
If you upgrade to this from an Improved Backroom Bootlegger, you will keep getting crocks returned, but double the amount. If you upgrade this operation to a Corner Speakeasy, the crocks return stops.
| Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger |
|---|---|
| Produces | Money (and Stoneware Crocks) |
| Sells | (see below) |
| Requirements | Skill: Expanded Bootlegging |
| Upgrade cost | -$2500 10 Furniture |
| Build time | 21 days (3 turns) |
| Expansions | 2 |
| Upgrades/ Downgrades | Backroom Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy |
All versions of the Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger have the same requirements and build cost/time, so I’m only listing what the different versions sell:
| (Brick Wine) | (Hard Cider) |
|---|---|---|
| Sells | 40 Brick Wine + (choice of one below) | 40 Hard Cider + (choice of one below) |
| 45 Hard Cider 60 Homemade Beer 30 Moonshine | 25 Brick Wine 45 Homemade Beer | |
| every 49 days (7 turns) | every 35 days (5 turns) |
| (Homemade Beer) | (Moonshine) |
|---|---|---|
| Sells | 50 Homemade Beer + (choice of one below) | 20 Moonshine + (choice of one below) |
| 20 Brick Wine 25 Hard Cider 20 Moonshine | 25 Brick Wine 25 Hard Cider 40 Homemade Beer | |
| every 28 days (4 turns) | every 28 days (4 turns) |
| (Applejack) | (Fruit Wine) |
|---|---|---|
| Sells | 35 Applejack + 25 Hard Cider | 36 Fruit Wine + 25 Brick Wine |
| every 58 days (9 turns) | every 42 days (6 turns) | |
| Requirements | Map: Pittsburgh | Map: Detroit |