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 can’t be Improved, it can be changed to a Brick Wine bootlegger or an Expanded bootlegger selling Fruit Wine and Brick Wine, but there is no option to make it return crocks.
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.
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 (Brick Wine) | Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger (Cider) |
|---|---|---|
| Produces | Money (and Stoneware Crocks) | Money (and Stoneware Crocks) |
| Sells | 40 Brick Wine + (choice of one below) | 40 Hard Cider + (choice of one below) |
| ?? Applejack (Pittsburgh) ?? Fruit Wine (Detroit) 45 Hard Cider 60 Homemade Beer 30 Moonshine | ?? Applejack (Pittsburgh) 25 Brick Wine ?? Fruit Wine (Detroit) 45 Homemade Beer ?? Moonshine | |
| every 49 days (7 turns) | every 35 days (5 turns) | |
| Requirements | Skill: Expanded Bootlegging | Skill: Expanded Bootlegging |
| Upgrade cost | -$2500 10 Furniture | -$2500 10 Furniture |
| Build time | 21 days (3 turns) | 21 days (3 turns) |
| Expansions | 2? | 2? |
| Upgrades/ Downgrades | Backroom Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy | Backroom Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy |
| Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger (Homemade Beer) | Expanded Homemade Booze Bootlegger (Moonshine) |
|---|---|---|
| Produces | Money | Money |
| Sells | 50 Homemade Beer + (choice of one below) | 20 Moonshine + (choice of one below) |
| ?? Applejack (Pittsburgh) 20 Brick Wine 24 Fruit Wine (Detroit) 25 Hard Cider 20 Moonshine | ?? Applejack (Pittsburgh) 25 Brick Wine ?? Fruit Wine (Detroit) 25 Hard Cider 40 Homemade Beer | |
| every 28 days (4 turns) | every 28 days (4 turns) | |
| Requirements | Skill: Expanded Bootlegging | Skill: Expanded Bootlegging |
| Build cost | -$2500 10 Furniture | -$2500 10 Furniture |
| Build time | 21 days (3 turns) | 21 days (3 turns) |
| Expansions | 2? | 2? |
| Upgrades/ Downgrades | Backroom Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy | Backroom Bootlegger Corner Speakeasy |