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I'm about to begin a reign of winter home campaign with a drunken brute barbarian (mostly autobiographical). I'm working with the GM to give him an "alcoholic" flaw where he would be sickened if he goes more than 24 hours without a drink. as such, he is carrying a fair amount of booze with him.
I love the "fluff" of kumis (fermented horse milk) for him, but planned to supplement with mead as well. the cost of a gallon of mead is 2 gp, while the cost of a mug of mead is 5 cp. I find it hard to believe a gallon of mead would really be forty servings. I doubt it would be eight (pints) as mead is strong stuff, but it's not a spirit either. even if I assume the 2 gp cost includes the cost of a jug (3 cp), that still equates to a serving of mead being about 3 oz per serving, less than a glass of wine. assuming mead of 15% or so, a "serving" should be in the 5-6 oz range, or about 24 servings per gallon. that still works out to far less than the cost of buying in bulk, so I'm confused?
kumis gets even more weird... it's 1 gp for a 1.5 lbs wineskin, or 24 oz. the description says it's the same strength as beer, which would mean about 5 sp per glass, not even a pint. (again, assuming real world math of a pint = 1 lb)
maybe I'm overthinking this, but fermenting honey for booze is a lot more difficult and costly than fermenting milk. why would the kumis cost 10x as much as mead for the same punch?
basically, I want to be able to plug in individual servings into hero lab, so I can check off boxes as I consume the various drinks. I just need to know how many "servings" each type of booze offers.
Think about the difference in price between buying drinks at a bar vs buying at the store. Assuming "maintenance" drinking while traveling and adventuring in areas where death is a good possibility, as opposed to "we're having a party" or "I have too much downtime" or "I miss my _______ " or "its been too long since I binged", I wouldn't charge the person more than a 2 or 3 s.p. per day. Alkies can lean to medicate in a fairly cost effective manner. Of course, if the character prefers to drink the high end stuff, then charge as much as he wants to pay.
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I don't think the devs pay much attention to the prices of stuff other than adventuring gear - there's a bit of discrepancy in livestock costs within the same book.
Point out the illogic to your GM and ask what they would consider appropriate. I'd probably drop the cost of a gallon of mead to 5sp or so and call it 20 servings a gallon (half cost for buying in bulk).
If you're using monthly cost of living you can include drinking costs in that. Food purchases under 1gp are included in the average cost of living, though your GM might decide to add a few gp to account for unusually frequent drinking. Then you just decide how much of your carrying capacity you're allotting to booze when travelling (to determine when your supply runs dry).