Now, hear me out. But, I think that Vault 111 might actually be based on a brewery.

Boston actually has a very long history of breweries. In fact, prior to the in 1920 Prohibition law passed in US Congress and ratified by 2/3'rds of the US States at the time of its passing, it was known as basically the US beer capital. Where you could go and try out various beers that weren't available anywhere else (until the creation of refrigeration).

Breweries were in fact built atop or even into hills, and often had big deep basemants. These basemants were used to store and keep the beer cold before the advent of refrigeration. I'm willing to bet the cryostasis or whatever form of stasis they are using too keep the PC and others alive (as long as the system was working and maintained), is on the lower floors of the vault.

Beer bottles are pressurized, much like how it appears the Vault might be pressurized from the outside world. And when the elevator door opens too the outside, it sounds a lot like a beer bottle opening up. It even looks like a beer cap that hasn't been pressed yet!

Speculation? Yes. But if you think about it, both preserving beer and preserving people through cryostasis, would require cold temperatures. And when you consider Boston's history as being early America's Beer capital, and as far as we know it, there hasn't been a mention of Boston's long brewery tradition.

If there's been one good thing that's come out of the nuclear holocaust, it's that all the alcohol has been aged to absolute perfection.

This... Is absolutely and amazing idea! I don't think this will be the case, but its creative at least! All these people praying for alternative start mods, here's a fine example of one I would download and play.

back to the roots... screw cryogenics, conserve in alcohol... (must've been the mother of hangovers, after 200y in the bottle) )

I'm just saying the Vault could be designed after a brewery... not that it is.

I've also never seen the sole survivor and batman in the same room.

It would certainly explain his knack for making all kinds of crazy things.

He even has a British butler. I think the connections are obvious.

After being revived from his cold slumber, the vault dweller of 111 emerges into the ashes of everything he once loved... but he couldn't feel anything as his senses have been dulled by gallons upon gallons of Alcohol.

One shot of vodka, and you'd be pretty drunk. I think it'd be funny if the pc drank a bottle of vodka and got insta drunk... Saying something like "what is this, turpentine. I don't feel too good.."

I bet if that's the case, the vault is designed by a German... Hey, wait.

Stanislaus Braun? Now it all makes sense hahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhahahahhaa

I'm not sure if you're serious...or just making fun other "Theory" threads that are just mad speculation

Cold-filtered Stanislaus Braun. Mmmm... delicious.

"After you drink that thing, you suddenly realised that your son, Shaun, has been turned into a dog"

*gasp*

Red Dwarf except in the cold storage

I'm being serious... try looking up where old school breweries before modern refrigeration were built, and you'll find that they were built on top of hills, and with deep basemants where they kept the brew cold. Combine with the fact that Boston was, at one point, the beer capital of the US, it wouldn't be far fetched if the idea for this Vault was inspired by old school breweries.

Samuel Adams Brewery?

Alcohol doesn't age anymore once it's in the bottle

Nah, the dog is just messin' with ya. He knows you are drunk, and is playin' with yer mind.

maybe because you're batman...?

german beer's heavily overrated.

stick to czech