Beer vs wine

[SaintGilbert]

Wine is more space efficient inside. A cupboard can hold like 120L of buckets, while a barrel holds 100L. But barrels can be moved more easily, stored anywhere, and don't turn beer into vinegar. I also feel that for extended hunting trips or general expeditions, a barrel of beer tossed in the wagon is always handy to have.

Actually, that's 160L 8x8 filled with 2x2 items = a 4x4 grid of items, thus 16 buckets or 160L of filled buckets. However, a barrel's footprint is more compact than that of a cupboard. (And for the argument, a cupboard has a more compact footprint than a large chest someone mentioned somewhere.) I can't rightfully tell you how much more compact the barrel is and if it's enough to make up that 60% increase in storage.

Ah, but while you can carry a barrel and a chest, you cannot carry a filled cupboard.

[Kaze_no_Kamil]

The problem is an LC has a capacity of 120 L of buckets rendering the beer transport advantage null and unless you are running a large village, there are very few situations where you would need 240 L of wine.

[MagicManICT]

Also there is one item that actually requires beer to make and that is bierwurst. Unfortunate it has too many stuff that needs to be combined compared to its FEP counterpart, strength cheese and bakery goods respectively.

Going to have to agree here. You're going to have to have a very large starting FEP value to make bierwurst worth the effort for the type of FEPs it gives. Some of the other foods that take a wide variety of ingredients (birthday cake, creamy cock, etc.) at least provide a good variety of FEPs and/or FEPs you don't get a lot of choices on for variety.