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Friday night and cocktail hour is upon us. So what do you have in your drinks cabinet?

Mine currently has:
Gordon's Gin
Grant's Sherry Cask Whisky
Morgan's Spiced Rum
Calvados
Absinthe
Triple Sec
Cherry Brandy
Benedictine
Noilly Prat Vermouth
Stone's Ginger Wine
Angostaura Bitters
Orange Bitters
Creme de Cassis
Rose's Lime Cordial
Grenadine
Tonic Water

Mmm what cocktail should I make?

In my liquor cabinet

vodka
rum

I need to go shopping.....

I've got a bar in my front room, but all that's there is some cider and some horrific ouzo. Alcohol doesn't last long here.

Well my parents have a nice supply of:

Glenfidich
Famous Grouse
Bells

^Whiskeys

Smirnoff

^Vodka

Some specialist or uncommon beers, such as Kingfisher.

Grenadine.

Semi decent bottle of champers.

And next to that cabinet I have my two crates of lagers. Being the heathen I am. Oh, and some decently priced Aussie wine.

Vodka and Gin.

Pour them all into a bucket. Add ice. Drink.

Repeat until dead.

I only have 3 bottles of Magners left :(. Not enough money for lots of alcohol.

Friday night and cocktail hour is upon us. So what do you have in your drinks cabinet?


Bourbon. What else does one need?

And cocktails are for girls.

Cheap beer, a bit of rum from Belize, and a large bottle of vodka that I will never touch.

Southern Comfort
Sambuca
Hierbas Tunel
Jack Daniels
Peach Schnapps

and I have a bottle of champagne somewhere given to me by Disney, tempted to open that tonight.

Rum
Vodka
Tequila
Cointreau
Gin
Armagnac
Amaretto
Vermouth

Also a few bottles of beer, and several bottles of wine.

Friday night and cocktail hour is upon us. So what do you have in your drinks cabinet?

Mine currently has:
Gordon's Gin
Grant's Sherry Cask Whisky
Morgan's Spiced Rum
Calvados
Absinthe
Triple Sec
Cherry Brandy
Benedictine
Noilly Prat Vermouth
Stone's Ginger Wine
Angostaura Bitters
Orange Bitters
Creme de Cassis
Rose's Lime Cordial
Grenadine
Tonic Water

Mmm what cocktail should I make?

Nice. Can I come visit?

I'm looking at a Heineken mini-keg and a half bottle of red wine, myself.. a rather pathetic display of liquid party favours. Luckily, the herbal variety of entertainment is never in short supply this side of the Rockies..

Mmmm.... I haven't restocked in a while... but currently, I think there's:

2 bottles of sake
soju
4 different kinds of rum
Amarula
Chambord
Sambuca
Chartruese
Some Starbucks liquer someone brought and left
3 bottles of ice wine
Green apple sour puss

... >.O that seems pretty light. I really need to go replenish.

Various Rums and Irish Whiskey's with a bottle of Tequila for the wife.

I have a single can of Bravaria under a pile of dirty socks.

*Is jealous*

Friday night and cocktail hour is upon us. So what do you have in your drinks cabinet?
It's not a small one, nor an empty one. More precisely, most beers are in the fridge.

Gordon's Gin
Good stuff. Cheap, nice flavor.

Absinthe
What, unmarked? Absinthe ranges from bitter piss to great stuff.

Noilly Prat Vermouth
Not a fan of the omnipresent Martini&Rossi?

Also, where are beers and wines?

Nice. Can I come visit?

Bring some Tacos

It's not a small one, nor an empty one. More precisely, most beers are in the fridge.


Good stuff. Cheap, nice flavor.


What, unmarked? Absinthe ranges from bitter piss to great stuff.


Not a fan of the omnipresent Martini&Rossi?

Also, where are beers and wines?

Normally have Plymouth Gin but the Gordon's was on special offer

The absinthe is La Fee Parisienne

Noilly Prat makes a better martini

I have a wine rack as well, but no beer in the house at the moment.

Vodka, Heineken, Jager and Crown Royal

Irn Bru and Red Bull.

Bring some Tacos

Don't I always? :)

The absinthe is La Fee Parisienne
Not the good stuff... Very much so IMHO, not that it's really bad, but I don't find it to have any appreciable taste really.

Ever tried Libertine and Toulouse?


Noilly Prat makes a better martini
I'm partial to it too, but you kinda must have big-name London Dry Gin, Martini&Rossi vermouth, Smirnoff vodka, Jim Beam and Johnnie Walker, etc., if you ever have guests who aren't seasoned drinkers...

At least with wine and beer you have the freedom of choice, but that's pretty much it.

I'm not high class enough for a drinks cabinet. :(

Devil's Springs (Vodka)
Brugal Añejo (Rum)
Jim Beam (Bourbon)
And I've got a nearly empty bottle of Crane Lake Sauvignon Blanc.

Yes, I'm deadly common. I know.

EDIT:
I'm not high class enough for a drinks cabinet. :(
My "Drinks cabinet" is the bottom part of my bookshelf. When I'm not drinking, I move a cardboard box full of last years text books in front of the bottles. Oh yeah, I'm classy as all fuck.

At the moment, I've got:

Bailey's
Bailey's chocolate mint
Amaretto
Peach schnapps
Pomegranate schnapps
Kirschwasser
Amarula
Creme de menthe
Creme de cacao
Kahlua
Whiskey
Bitters
Grenadine

My "Drinks cabinet" is the bottom part of my bookshelf. When I'm not drinking, I move a cardboard box full of last years text books in front of the bottles. Oh yeah, I'm classy as all fuck.
I have a proper well visible drinks cabinet (more precisely a cabinet+rack combo), but it's half-empty and mostly for the show. Has the stylish stuff on the chest and eye level shelves and the cheap stuff at the bottom of the rack (so that you grab the cheap stuff if you crawl to the cabinet).

What I don't show is is another sort of a drinks cabinet in a storeroom, which existence I don't announce, because people would get it wrong. Just /b/cause I have a year's supply of drinks doesn't make me a heavy drinker - it's all different, well, 1-5 bottles of each. Not really a collection, but I drink for the taste, I didn't buy that in the walmart, and hate to stick with one brand.

I also keep the best stuff in there, so that random friends don't drink it up for no reason. Yes, I am that cheap.

Wine, cider, more wine and some tequila.

One bottle of wine, acquired as a prize in a recent quiz night. I don't particularly do drinking.

A couple of bottles of wine
three different kinds of Beer Galopper/Calanda/Felsenau
about three liters of mead
Kübler (Absinthe blanche)
half a bottle of wodka
and I'm pretty sure theres some whiskey around, from Germany if i recall correctly

I don't have a drinks cabinet. If I did, it'd probably have lots of cachaça.

a four (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_(drink)), two PBR, a St. Ides that belongs to my roommate, half a handle of Seagrams 7, and a handle of Gordons Gin.

Hmm...

Orange juice.
Water.
Apple juice.
Iced tea.

...um...

Milk.

Vermouth
Bunnahabhain 1997 (Islay single malt scotch)
Bulleit (bourbon)
EDIT: Angostura bitters. How could I forget?

I suck at keeping liquor in the house.:$

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Non-alcoholic, VERY cheap soft drink that does taste good, though almost no one else I know buys. :D

(I'd buy it even if it costed as much as or more than the others, mind you)

I don't have full-sized refrigerator, so although I don't drink, I do have a "drink cabinet."

In it:

Two twelve-packs of diet Dr. Thunder (Wal-Mart Dr. Pepper)
Half a quart of grapefruit juice.
One of my three gallons of lemon juice
Coffee left over from yesterday, about three cups worth

I have no cabinet, although I have spotted a wine cabinet on the sears.ca website I greedily want to get my hands on,

BUT! having no job and no income, that's fairly unrealistic of me. No job means no booze as well. :( Damn nation. Pity me, NSG, pity me.

NOTHING

One of the morons I live with decided to get a DUI so now lives under house arrest; we ALL get to suffer thanks to him.

NOTHING

One of the morons I live with decided to get a DUI so now lives under house arrest; we ALL get to suffer thanks to him.

Harsh, I think I would ask them to move out.

Harsh, I think I would ask them to move out.

I have to put up with it for 5 months, or move out myself, something I cannot financially manage. It gets better because they aren't allowed to work, because they can't leave more than 60 feet away; so guess who gets to support him? The rest of us!

And we can't even have booze, or my sword collection...

I have a nearly full bottle of some weird (not Kahlua) coffee liqueur. It's pretty bad, so I expect it will remain around for a while, then I'll throw it out. That's it.

Friday night and cocktail hour is upon us. So what do you have in your drinks cabinet?

Mine currently has:
Gordon's Gin
Grant's Sherry Cask Whisky
Morgan's Spiced Rum
Calvados
Absinthe
Triple Sec
Cherry Brandy
Benedictine
Noilly Prat Vermouth
Stone's Ginger Wine
Angostaura Bitters
Orange Bitters
Creme de Cassis
Rose's Lime Cordial
Grenadine
Tonic Water

Mmm what cocktail should I make?

Mine is empty. Can I come mooch ?

I don't have a drinks cabinet as such, but behind my wardrobe there are a couple of bottles of whisky which I get out for such special occassions as an impending uni deadline.

I have to put up with it for 5 months, or move out myself, something I cannot financially manage. It gets better because they aren't allowed to work, because they can't leave more than 60 feet away; so guess who gets to support him? The rest of us!

And we can't even have booze, or my sword collection...

I think when the five months is up, you need to ask him to leave. It's likely he'll do it again, and there's no reason you and your roommates should be punished for his stupidity.

I think when the five months is up, you need to ask him to leave. It's likely he'll do it again, and there's no reason you and your roommates should be punished for his stupidity.

If I have my way I'll be gone before that.

nothing (alcoholic) these days. i bought a beer the other day and didn't like it much... i guess my days of drinking aren't coming back anytime soon.

Pour them all into a bucket. Add ice. Drink.

Repeat until dead.

sounds like parties i used to go to. paddling pools as human-sized mixers FTW :P

10 beers and 2 bottles of Vodka, one half full, one unopened.

Juicy Juice. Lots of Juicy Juice. The joys of having a 1 year old.

Juicy Juice. Lots of Juicy Juice. The joys of having a 1 year old.

I hear they love Gin.

I hear they love Gin.

Oh, yeah, they love it alright. But you try sending a 1 year old to a sweatshop loaded up on Gin so that they can earn their keep and you tell me how that goes. Because I can tell you exactly how that goes.

Mine is empty. Can I come mooch ?

Hard times? Long way to come for a drink.

Juicy Juice. Lots of Juicy Juice. The joys of having a 1 year old.

My mum used to dunk my dummy in whisky to help me sleep when I was a baby. Nowadays social services would be round immediately. Though it possibly explains my drinking habits.

My mum used to dunk my dummy in whisky to help me sleep when I was a baby. Nowadays social services would be round immediately. Though it possibly explains my drinking habits.

Oh, that still goes on. If by dummy you mean pacifier, that is. :tongue:

Oh, that still goes on. If by dummy you mean pacifier, that is. :tongue:

Yes, I was trying to remember the US term but failed.

Ardbeg
Half a Lagavulin
Talisker
Kahlua
Beefeater
Famous Grouse
Family size bottle of Finlandia Vodka
Dodgy looking bottle of Tsantali Ouzo
Very dodgy looking remains of Irish Cream
Some Pastis 51
Couple of cans of Guinness
Various vines

Yes, I was trying to remember the US term but failed.

I was just clarifying, not correcting. There's no standard, of course.

Ardbeg
Half a Lagavulin
Talisker
Kahlua
Beefeater
Famous Grouse
Family size bottle of Finlandia Vodka
Dodgy looking bottle of Tsantali Ouzo
Very dodgy looking remains of Irish Cream
Some Pastis 51
Couple of cans of Guinness
Various vines

Most of those are sort of obscure, or at least specialty items, yeah? Haven't heard of all but a couple.

I was just clarifying, not correcting. There's no standard, of course.

I am grateful for it. For some reason I had the idea that it was 'comforter' in the US but I would have been wrong.

Most of those are sort of obscure, or at least specialty items, yeah? Haven't heard of all but a couple.
Well, the first three are single malt scotchs followed by Coffee liqueur, Gin, Scotch and so on. Nothing too special.

Calvados
Moscato di Sicilia
Lemon vodka (bleah)
Moskovskaja (the real stuff!)
4 different grappa
3 different gins
Ricard
14-years old Stock 84 brandy
Aperol
Kirsch (the real stuff)
couple of single-malt scotch (a 12 years and a 15 years)
Anis
Zibibbo


as for wines:

3 Grand Vin de Bordeaux - Roc de Puisseguin Saint-Emilion 2003
1 Chianti Gineprone 2003
2 Inferno - Diaul della Valtellina Superiore 2003
1 Champagne de Reims Montaudon 2005
1 Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese 2008
1 Sauternes Barton & Guestier 2005
1 Edelzwicker d'Alsace - Famille Ohresser - Obernai 2007
1 Moscato dell'Oltrepò Pavese - La Versa 2007
1 Chianti dei Colli Senesi - Terre di Rubinoro 2006
1 Sauvignon Friulano - Forchir 2006
1 Aglianico del Vulture - Bali'Aggio - Venosa 2003
1 Bonarda dell'Oltrepò Pavese - Cagnoni - 2006
1 Rosso del Castelletto - Terre di Franciacorta - Castelfaglia 2003

I really got to drink the Bonarda and the Edelzwicker before they get spoiled.
And yes, I do look for the 2003. It has been a great year for red wines here in Europe. One of the best years in the last 50.

as for the beers, well, I have some in the fridge, but nothing special, except for a Menabrea Lager.

I am grateful for it. For some reason I had the idea that it was 'comforter' in the US but I would have been wrong.
You would have been really wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comforter). I don't imagine that covering a baby in a whisky soaked blanket would do much good for anyone.

You would have been really wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comforter). I don't imagine that covering a baby in a whisky soaked blanket would do much good for anyone.

You never sucked on your blankie when you were a baby? It would hold a lot more whiskey than a binkie (another word for pacifier).

You would have been really wrong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comforter). I don't imagine that covering a baby in a whisky soaked blanket would do much good for anyone.

It is safe as long as the baby doesn't have a cigar

6 bottles of Becks
2 cans of John Smiths (ewwwww)
1 Southern comfort
3/4 of Jack Daniels
½ of Bombay sapphire

Famous Grouse

om nom nom

2 Cases of Guinness
4 pack of Gulden Draak
Bud Light (it's my roommate's)
1 bottle 18 year Glenlivet
1 bottle 12 year Glenlivet
1 bottle Jameson
1 bottle Jack
1 bottle rum (captain morgan)

uhhh..

about half a case of Molson?
I drank everything else :p

om nom nom
What!?! Famous Tetraonidae is more 'om nom nom' than Lagavulin? Preposterous!

I had a whole lot of people over Saturday night.

In other words mine is empty including both beer fridges.

What!?! Famous Tetraonidae is more 'om nom nom' than Lagavulin? Preposterous!


I'd be afraid to om nom nom Lagavulin. It's over $100 a bottle here now.

Let's see...

Ketel One
Jameson
Courvoisier
Kahlua
Godiva chocolate liqueur
Cointreau
Chambord
Bitters

3-4 bottles Trumer Pils
3-4 bottles Rolling Rock

I'm actually surprised typing all that up. I didn't know we had so much. After 20+ years of being a more or less "dry" house, it's kind of surprising to see our tiny little shelf taking up... oh, at least a square two feet now!

a family of friendly small green furry aliens.

my WHAT cabinet?

silly silly silly, why would i designate an otherwise much needed and useful storage space to something no one in my house consumes nor desires to?

in the refrigerator there are gallons of milk, a pitcher each of ice water and one of cran-apple juice, and a couple of jars of left over coffee.

sorry, if i want to alter my mind there are a number of nonchemical techniques i have learned to employ.

I'd be afraid to om nom nom Lagavulin. It's over $100 a bottle here now.
Ow! That's a bit unfortunate. 55€ 0.7l here. And om nom nom! Hooray for winter holidays!

a family of friendly small green furry aliens.

my WHAT cabinet?

you' know I've only ever encountered absinthe drinkers on nsG

you' know I've only ever encountered absinthe drinkers on nsG
Oh, It's because of the rep. Being banned adds the glory. Glorified Pastis 51 really.

Currently a bit light

==Scotch==
BALVENIE Doublewood
Laphroaig 15 year
Glenmorangie 18 year

==Whiskey==
Crown Royal
McMasters

==Rum==
Appletons Extra
Captain Morgan Special Reserve

==Vodka==
Imperia
Absolute


To be honest I keep it stocked with stuff I like but I dont drink much out of it ... usually I buy something for a party, it does not get drank and it comes back and sits for a long time ... most of thoes bottles have dust on them

That being said i do go OUT and enjoy some of the same ones while downtown ... just dont have people over much and dont drink by myself too often