Selling to businesses

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Ingredients and containers

The price to sell is the same as the price to buy, e.g. you can buy a barrel of Corn Syrup for $4, and if you were to sell it, you get $4. No difference.

Your best bet for finding buyers is to open the resource overlay (top left corner, button on the left), select the resource and look for any green triangles on your map – if there are any; there are very few different ingredients and containers you can sell.

While it can be difficult (or even impossible) to get someone to buy a resource off you, the kind of places that will buy are usually the same kind of places that will sell the same resource to you. There are some differences – I found a junkyard in New York that wanted to buy Stoneware Crocks and Small Bottles, but doesn’t sell them.

I have explored the entire map in my first Chicago game, and have two places that are willing to buy crocks or small bottles – none in my territory. Only one business – in rival territory – wants to buy Grape Concentrate (see picture above).

Small barrels are the easiest to find people who will buy off you: I have nine places in Chicago, and only two are in rival territory. Businesses in rival territory don’t really want to do business with you, so selling anything there is effectively off the table.

“How can we make it up to you?”
“Nothing says I’m sorry like money.”

Alcohol (and cigarettes)

Price refers to the base price you get when you sell 1 item to a business on the map. If you sell it in a speakeasy, you should get double the price listed here. That’s why it’s good to get a bootlegging op going as soon as possible, preferably when you have a second building. It means you don’t have to go around selling your goods every turn just to raise some cash. Instead you can take some of that pressure off and focus on exploring and expanding territory while the bootlegging op gives you money in the background – and you’ll get more money too. You’ll still have to sell some goods manually, because bootlegging ops don’t sell a lot each turn, but it opens up options for you. Especially when you upgrade it.

If it says an alcohol requires a nationality, it specifically requires The [Nationality] Outfit DLC to be able to produce it. Playing as e.g. Irish without having The Irish Outfit DLC will not allow you to produce Blended Whiskey. Polish and German booze exclusives includes their skill premium in the price, as they’re the only ones who can make and sell it.

While Detroit and Atlantic City are the only map that can readily import Canadian Whiskey, I did come across some in New York once, along with Scotch whiskey. Sometimes other outfits have good connections to other cities! My Chicago resource overlay includes German Schnapps (learned about it from a gambler), but I haven’t found any – or anyone who wants to buy it.

It appears who buys what might differ slightly between maps. I can only sell Grappa through supper clubs in New York, for instance, but no problem selling it to businesses in Chicago.

There were so many different businesses buying T1+T2 that it was pointless listing them all, so instead I focused on the ones that are harder to find. You normally learn fairly quickly which businesses on the map buy the alcohol you produce, though, and the rest you can always look up on the resource overlay.

IconItem nameTypePriceTypically bought by
Absinthe (New York)Bottles$60 (T3/T4)
Aged WhiskeyBottles$90
Amaretto (New York)Bottles$32Many places except
(T2)
Applejack (Pittsburgh)Bottles$20Many places except
(T1/T2)
Backroom BeerBottles$25Many places except
Bathtub GinBottles$24Many places except
Beer KegsSmall Barrel$120
Blended Whiskey (Irish)Bottles$84 (so far I only have those 2 on my AC map)
Bottled BrandyBottles$30
Bottled RumBottles$28
Bottled VodkaBottles$30
Bottled WhiskeyBottles$30
Bourbon (Cincinnati)Bottles$95
Brandy BarrelBarrel$1200
Brick WineCrocks$15Many places except
Canadian Whiskey (Cincinnati, Detroit)Bottles$60
Caribbean Rum (Atlantic City)Bottles$90Many places, including
ChampagneBottles$50
Cigarettes (production is English)Carton$5Many places except
CordialsBottles$70
Corn Whiskey (Cincinnati)Bottles$22 (T2?)
Counterfeit WineBottles$28Many places except
English Gin (Atlantic City)Bottles$90Many places, including
Fruit Wine (Detroit)Bottles$18Many places except
(T1/T2)
German Lager (German)Bottles$35.10 (T2/T3)
German Schnapps (Atlantic City)Bottles$95Many places, including
GinBottles$70
Grappa (Italian)Bottles$22
Hard CiderCrocks$12Many places except
Homemade BeerCrocks$8Many places except
Homemade Brandy (Philadelphia)Crocks$18
Irish Whiskey (Atlantic City)Bottles$100
MoonshineCrocks$20Many places except
Nalewka (Polish)Bottles$41.80 (T3?)
Rakija (Pittsburgh)Bottles$30 (T3?)
Rum BarrelBarrel$800
Scotch Whiskey (Atlantic City)Bottles$110Many places, including
Sparkling CiderBottles$25Many places except
Spiced RumBottles$85
Vodka CaskBarrel$1000
Whiskey BarrelBarrel$2000