Whats in your liquor cabinet?
 

Do you have a liquor cabinet?

Whats in it? What do you buy? Why?

A nice bottle of ownage.(Ping Sooner fans ;))

I fear for the "Whats in your wallet" Parody thread

After tonight, no more Knob Creek.

Jack Daniels
Bacardi Rum
Grey Goose

Goose. The frikking Goose. And then more Goose.

My Liquor Cabinet is filled with the emptiness of all the lonely bottles that despair has drunken dry.

mad poetic Sov. Mad poetic!

lots of junk I never drink (leftovers from parties).

the only thing I ever drink is Disaronna Amaretto.

Grey Goose
Versinthe La Blanche
Absenta Serpis
Baileys

Vodka
Kahlua

B&B

The dude abides, man.

When do you guys crack out the bottles?

HA HA HA

;)

Me, well I have :
J&B Scotch, some V&S Brandy and the ubiquitous .....
Albertson's brand Whiskey!

no....

What isn't in my liquor cabinet? :)

Nada. I had one bottle of Amaretto from a friend's wedding 3 years ago that we finally polished off during the holidays. One of these months I'll get around to replacing it.

If you wanna call the freezer in my apartment shared by four guys a liquor cabinet, we have:

Grey Goose
Jagermeister
Goldschlager
Smirnoff Citrus
Blackhaus
2 bottles of Absinth
Southern Comfort
Peach Schnapps

Bailey's, Kahlua, Ketel One Vodka, Level Vodka, Jameson (All were xmas/birthday gifts).

EDIT: Whoa, what does it say about you when you receive 5 bottles of booze in a 3 day stretch? At least everything was different and there were no doubles.

The stuff that I purchased is Bombay Sapphire gin, Jack Daniels, E&J brandy and some Malibu.

Add that to the Newcastle/Murphy's Stout in the fridge and I'm ready for a blizzard of mammoth proportions.

Various single malts.
vodka
gin
bourbon
rye
red wine
white wine
dark rum

Renault Carte Noire Extra
Oban
Talisker
Bowmore Darkest
Laproaigh 11yr old
Lagavulin
Macallan Cask Strength
Caol Ila
Bowmore 12yr old
Ardbeg

three or four of them is not opened yet, though.

yes


Nyquil

the state run car company makes booze too?

I don't know why, but when I saw this picture, all I could think about was the Fritzmeister climbing up on the bar and doing "Coyote Ugly" style dancing...

Not many people I encounter enjoy this terrific single malt. We dont have choices here in the states for this, only the 15 year option. Have you had a chance to enjoy both? If so, are the differences subtle enough to weigh out?

Smirnoff Vodka
Kahlua
Baileys
Cuervo Gold

I'll upgrade on the vodka and tequila when I get a job that actually pays well...

I've tried the standard 10-yr old Laphroaig before and bought this 11-yr old as a special limited "edition" last year, both are very good but the limited edition is a tiny bit more mellower. Both should be more rugged than the 15-yr old, but I haven't tasted that one myself, only listened to opinions from others.

Not much, just the essentials.
Makers Mark for me.
Bloody Mary mix for my wife, with the vodka stored in the fridge.
There's an assortment of "guest beers" in the vegetable crisper too, with a few bottles of "unexpected guest" wine in the little rack atop the fridge.

Crown Royal
Crown Royal Special Reserve

Dan Tucker Whiskey....fuckin nasty
Jose Cuervo
Jim Beam
Black Velvet
Some Carribean Rum

Not much right now...

Johnny Walker (Black)
Souza
Appleton
Cuervo 1800
Baileys

My weekly bottle of Makers Mark and Vanilla Stoli (just started drinking flavored vodka and i have to say Vanilla Stoli is dangerously good)

And when you do, make sure they're Grey Goose and Patron Silver.

Now THAT is a liqour cabinet. The rest of you so far just have some booze in your house.

As for me, I tend to go a little more for the HIghlands than the smoky Islays, but I did finish a bottle of Coal Ila a while back and really enjoyed it.

Chivas Regal 18 yo My favorite Blend
Aberlour 10 yo Great taste and only 10 years old. My staple, and a great "starter" scotch.
Macallan 12 yo Aged in Sherry Casks, the flavour really comes through.
Glengoyne 17 yo My favorite, well of those I can afford to buy
Glengoyne 21 yo A christmas Gift, and my new favorite treat.
Highland Park 12 yo My winter Scotch. Smoky.

Bombay gin (sometimes Saphire)
A cheap ass Brandy my wife bought seemingly a half gallon of...it is undrinkable and won't go away.
Kahlua
Bailey's
Meyer's Dark Rum
Arette Tequila
Grey Goose
Wine, wine and more wine. Mostly Reds, More Zinfandels than any other category.
Maker's Mark
Crown Royal
Oh and a bottle of Old Bushmills single malt for making Irish Coffee.

Here's what I've got in mine:

Kahlua
Godiva chocolate liqueur
Maker's Mark
Bacardi
Grand Marnier
Frangelico
DiSaronno Amaretto
Glenlivet 12yr scotch
Lagavulin 16yr scotch
Carolan's Irish Cream
Gallo Dry Vermouth
Gallo Sweet Vermouth
Beefeater Gin
Peach Schnapps
Hot Damn
Ouzo
Belvedere Vodka
Don Julio Tequila
1958 Krohn Colheita Port
Lots of wine (I'm in the process of building a wine cellar)

I certainly don't have the most refind palate, but the 10 year old with a tablespoon of water tastes exactly like the 15 year old to me.
(It feals good to display my ignorance in public like this.)
Any other suggestions for single malts that are similar to Laphroaig? Are the other Islay single malts similar?

Thats a pretty nice bar and cabinet set-up. That would be perfect in my dorm room. :)

Laphroaig is certainly one of the more unique whiskies, but Lagavulin comes close to that peaty flavor. Most Islay whiskies hint at various degrees of saltwater, seaweed and peat, but Talisker (of the western Highlands) also is somewhat similar.

Lagavulin(16) is the best generally available Islay malt IMO. Most all of them, however, have that smokey/salty taste. It is what Islay malts are known for, and they play it up. Lag will also run you a bit more than Laphroaig.

FWIW, the best bargain single malt that I have had is the Balveine 10 year old. It's pretty cheap b/c it is only 10 years old, but it is also pretty mild and smooth. Nothing like the complexity of an Islay malt, but not harsh either.

The best that I have ever had is the Johnnie Walker Blue Label. That was my present to myself when I got engaged. It's like drinking velvet. I don't see me getting another bottle until I have a kid or win the lottery.

Oh, and since we are swapping stories, I once tasted some Lagavulin that had been "double aged" in sherry casks. It was like normal Lagavulin, but with a heavy sherry taste underneath it all. Way too heavy and complex for normal consumption, IMO, but a very unique experience. (I don't think that it is available here. The guy who had it got it in Scotland).

Oh--and this thread has me itching for some single malts.

Any recommendations generally that people want to throw out would be appreciated. I'm always looking to expand my horizons.

Nothing - I swore off liquor two and a half years ago. Haven't had a drop since.

poor bastard....*sends sympathy VPI's way*


I used to be a fall down drunk, if I had a single beer, I was gonna be at that bar all night long. never failed. I started to drink, I got drunk, I kept on drinking, I passed out.

A number of times I awoke hooked up to machinery at the local hospital.

Took two rounds of therapy to break the addiction/habit, though I still drank. Then my first marriage snapped and I spent 6 months, quite literally , drunk.

I haven't been truly inebriated since I think.....

I can drink all i want now, the urge to over-indulge is simply non-existant anymore.

I do love my scotch though, but I haven't got a collection like some of these. I am envious =)

Ren

Amaretto
Jack
Belvedere
Butterscotch Schnapps
Sour Apple Schnapps

Then I have a nice 30 bottle collection in my wine rack.

Mainly Shiraz, Pinot Noirs, but I also have about 5 or 6 bottles of white as well.

I still drink...Guinness, Newcastle, Harp, Bass, Yuengling...but just not liquor. Too many very bad experiences with liquor made me give it up for good.

Crazy Horse.

I've picked up Balvenie a couple of times. If you like it, I recommend Aberlour's 10yo offering. To me, it has a lot more flavor than the Balvenie. They are roughly the same price, but Aberlour has started to grow in popularity and price.

As for the Blue Label. You speak the truth. It is amazing stuff. I had a couple glasses a few months back when I was being schmoozed by a sales guy over dinner. Never actually possessed a bottle. Maybe when I win the lottery.

No liquor. Just Mad Dog and some forties of Hurricane and Old E.

Nasty ass old liquor left over from my parents.

Few Questions:

When do you guys break out the liquor?
How is the flavored vodkas? I always wanted to try it, but want to hear some feedback first.
What exactly is malt and port?

I have a glass or two a couple times a week.

Most flavored crap is flavored because it wasn't good enough before the flavoring was added. YMMV

Port is a rich sweet desert type wine. It was mentioned above in relation with scotch, because sometimes scotch is aged at least partly in casks that had previously served to age Port or Sherry. The result is the scotch picks up some of the characteristics of the cask's previous "resident".
Malt; well There are two kinds of scotch, single malt and blends.

Well RL calls, I'll get back later with more info in a bit.

Thanks...I am a hotel and restaurant major, and am will study this type of stuff later in my program.

As for the flavored vodka, I always though it was a move to expand the lines and to tap into the "mix" departments. I know Smrinoff and Absoulthas a big line, and though they were quality vodka producers (never had the vodka of either).

I'll have a glass or two a couple of times a week.

As for the flavored vodkas, I've only had a couple. When we were in Helsinki about this time last year, me, my boss, and one of my coworkers pretty much cleaned out the bar at the Scandic hotel in downtown Helsinki. We had some raspberry vodka, lemon vodka, and orange vodka that was outstanding. I don't remember much after that, except for the sauna in my boss's room, then going on to the balcony immediately afterwards in the -20 degree weather to roll in the snow, then throw beer bottles into the construction site next door.

Malt is one of the ingredients in whiskey. There are several kinds of whiskey, scotch, bourbon, etc. It's also broken into two camps, single malt, and blended. Most whiskeys in the US are blended. Seagram's, Jack Daniels, Jim Beam, Maker's Mark, they are all blended whiskeys. Most of the whiskey that comes from Scotland is single malt, and there are distinctive areas that produce varying flavors. I, myself, prefer the Islay style, as they usually have more of a peat moss flavor to them.

As for port, it usually referrs to a specific kind of dessert wine that comes from the Oporto region of Portugal. It is usually much sweeter than dinner red wines. There are several varieties of this as well. The two most known are ruby ports and tawny ports. I prefer the tawny ports. And, as for most kinds of wine, there are certain years that are known to have produced exceptional batches.

Sounds like Europe was fun. :)

Thanks for the breakup, as well the post before. I know the whiskey, but not about the offsprings such as malt and that. Isn't malt consider a "premium" product? So the flavored vodkas are good quality then?

Malt is a common grain. It's one of the base components of beer. However, in regards to whiskey, different kinds of malts have different flavors once distilled into whiskey. Single malt scotches are just that, distilled from a particular kind of malt mash that is brewed only one time. Blended whiskeys are made from a mixture of malt mashes, some of which may be brewed multiple times, which lowers the overall quality of the product, but also lowers the price, allowing for mass production. Since they cost more, generally tast better, and fewer bottles are made, the single malt scotches get the "premium" designation.

Debbie Gibson

ohh good grief...and how come none of the guys of our youth are stripping naked in magazines :rolleyes:

Like who? You really wanna see Tony Danza and Kirk Cameron getting naked? Mr. Belvedere perhaps? :D

Ah to complete my thoughts from above, and add onto what the others have said.

A single malt scotch is the result or product of a single distiller's efforts for a season or year. In other words, they take all of the whisky from a single of their "treatments" for a single year and age it in casks, combine the results of the years work, dillute is a bit, bottle it and sell it as a "single malt scotch".

A blended whisky is made by a distiller that purchases portions of other distillers' single malts, and combines them together. Hopefully the result is a scotch that is greater than the sum of it's single malt parts. Some blends like the Johnny Walker Blue mentioned above are better, well smoother and more complex than many of the single malts.

For anyone starting out with Scotch I recommend trying a variety to determine your specific tastes. Fine liquor stores carry miniature bottles of the single malts and blends, so you can see if you like something for $5 rather than $75.

As a guide
Islay scotches are smoky and peaty with a bit of a saltiness.
Speyside scotches are salty, and smoky and peaty.
Highland scotches are lighter than the Islays and Speysides, much less smoke and peat.

Last but not least. Don't drink it straight, and don't drink it over ice or with cold water soda or other wise. The cold kills the taste. If you are drinking cheap stuff(Scotch or otherwise)to have a good time, ice it up and get lit, that is fine. If you are trying to actually taste the scotch, then cut it with room temp bottled water. I usually go one fourth to one third water. The water really brings out a lot of the flavor and scents of the scotch. I used to think it was silly or at least not very manly to "cut" the scotch, but the difference is quite notable.

well I recently found(dont ask how)Wesley DID turn out to be a pretty good lookin guy :p

That is more disturbing than anything I have EVER said.

pffft you dont think IIII was disturbed by it, keep thinking about him wearing those braces...but he really did end up ok lookin :( omg im not saying any MORE

He's properly referred to as "Brocktoon".

/nobody's gonna get that.

it's from SNL :rolleyes:

Yeah really, the Brocktoon sketch is one of the last great SNL skits.

Hey it's cool, you have a stash of Mr. Beleveder tapes hidden in the closet. :D

The greatest, actually, but I'm amazed and impressed at you both. Well done. ;)

We should start a club.

we should have a name for him that only we call him :cool: .....
yayy me and Suicane got praise for the day, I'll pull out those videos and we can have a Mr Belvedere marathon :eek:

I will admit that before the advent of cable and the internet i often had to resort to fantasies of the moms from Mr. Belveder and Growing Pains engaged in activities.

Just remember, it's OK to to want cook him a simple meal, but you shouldn't want to cut into him, to tear the flesh, to wear the flesh, to be born unto new worlds where his flesh becomes the key.

The bar is made from a Liberty Ship hatch cover. It was a gift from my ex-wife that blocked me from installing what I wanted, which was something with a cool box and a kegolator.

I would be happy to sell you it, plus the chairs for $1200 plus shipping.


When I bought my house it had the wet bar (located behind the bar in my photo) and I decided to buy a mountain of booze to go with it. The liquor is more of a decoration than a statement on my current drinking habits.

To be honest, I expected to entertain a bit more than what happened, and even when I did people rarely drank.

So now, I make a mixed drink every so often. More often, I put something in a coffee.

I think the Stoli flavored vodkas are pretty darn good, but it would be almost as easy to flavor a drink with something else. For instance, instead of having a vanilla vodka it would be just as east to put vanilla in a vodka, or have vanilla schnapps.

Don't worry, those are two of my absolute favorites... *licks lips*

Nah, I need to pay for that dorm room and college tution with the money I barely have. :(


Thanks.

Never had Silver. Is it a vodka, rum, ect?

Grey Goose is the best stuff in the Vodka market I think. But at around the price tag (around $30 a bottle right?), its not something I can afford on my college student salary.

Heh, maybe $30 for a very small bottle of Grey Goose. The stuff certainly ain't cheap.

Patron Silver in a very nice, smooth tequila. Great stuff...

Thats a pretty nice, and pricey, cabinet for 4 college guys.

Man,
I sometimes wonder how profitable liquor stores can be.

A bottle of Goose usually goes for around $30 a bottle. It's one of the most expensive vodkas avaliable.

Wanted to ask...

Is a bottle of something a good gift for a birthday or something? I know you can give wine, but my friends like the rum, vodka, ect.

During the holidays I saw a bottle of Goose for $20 at Rite Aid.

And once I tasted Patron Silver, I walked away from Jose and never looked back.

Your Rite Aid sells Grey Goose Vodka?

How much is Silver?

Patron Silver is about $35-$40 for 750ml
I like, maybe prefer, the Patron Reposado($40-$50) or Patron Anejo($35-$40) as well.

Also a nice thing about the Patron tequilas, is they market 350 ml bottles for about half price. So you can taste and compare these for a bit less than many of the others.

Also really once you have tried any of the above, you will lose any regard for Cuervo Gold. Which is odd, because that is what so many people think Tequila tastes like.

Thanks..I never really tried tequilla, but its something I want to give a taste. Take it "Cuervo Gold" is not the real stuff?

The higher end tequilas are very sippable. Cuervo Gold is best thrown down the back of your throat without touching your tongue. So no. I really like Don Julio. It's a nice change of pace from scotch.

I think she was thinking of Meatloaf.

Desnudo has it right. Cuervo Gold was great while I was in college, and then later when I wanted to get drunk. It is passable in Margaritas, but really the difference in taste and smoothness is remarkable between gold and the more "premium" tequilas. Along with Patron, I find the Herradura offerings to be very good and relatively low priced(a bit cheaper than Patron).

They can be very profitable. Especially when they're right on the other side of the border of a state that doesn't allow alcohol sales on Sunday. Especially on holiday weekends in the summer.

Though working those weekends can be a bitch.

I always wonder about them. You don't need a high level of employee, dont have to pay for anything expect the bills to run the place (rent, electric), the alcohol is your product (so no assembly, ect). Just wonder about the legal work.

An old thread, but I wanted to bump this. Anyone try Cabo Wabo, saw it in the liquor store the other day, but's its on the pricey side. Put up a bottle of Goldschlager instead. I want to try a real tequilla. Never had Patron.

I can't stomach tequila anymore. I stick with the basics:

Jack Daniel's
Malibu
Captain Morgan
Smirnoff

All can be mixed with coke, so I'm all about the economies of scale...

I've Never tried Cabo Wabo, but I've heard good things about it from a not too stodgy at all friend. She says she likes it, because it is much better than Cuervo. In my mind not exactly wild praise, but it tells me it is probably at least a cut above "the Gold".

well i dont have a liquor cabinet but i have a freezer with lots of liquor from a party we had this weekend so they are all between half full and lower

Goldschlager
Jack Daniels
Grey Goose
Malibu Rum
Bacardi

and in the fridge 3 more 30 packs of good ol' keystone and 2 24 packs of bud light. had too much shit left over so we have to have another party this weekend lol

I don't have a "refined" palate, so only the good stuff ;)

4 pints of Everclear
2 fifths of the good Captain
2 fifths Jose Cuervo Tequila
1 fifth Bacardi 151
1 gallon Crown Royal

In the fridge there is about a half case of Bud Light and another case on the floor next to the fridge.

This is about all I drink alcohol wise so I always make sure I have a little bit of all of everything on hand at all times.

EDIT: All the hard stuff isn't in a "cabinet", its all in the freezer.

I had Cabo Wabo about a month ago, and I'd definitely put it with the Patron's of the tequila world...Very smooth and palatable..

I don't have a liquor cabinet yet (combination of college student income, and inability to save alcohol once it's bought)

Same here....:D This will be my last weekend to drink, and enjoy a drink (surgery in about a month) prolly until next summer.

All I have is a quarter bottle of Barcadi Gold rum (actually my roomie's, but we share), and Goldschalger. Anyone mix Goldschlager with anything?

ive mixed it with coke, its not too good but its not too bad either, i personally think goldschlager is just better to drink straight rather than mixing it.

I think so too. It's sweet enough where you don't really need to add a sugar drink. I've actually tried sipping it before, and it's not half bad. I wouldn't recommend more than one glass though.

Yeah, one glass and you would be pretty tipsy, if not drunk.

I once played "Asshole" while drinking Goldschlager. Not a good night...

Your a brave man.