How Much Booze Have You Got In Right Now?

[May Kasahara]

We're quite light on booze at the moment - just four bottles of red wine and a bottle of champagne that is for when I bring the baby home. It's gathering dust on the sideboard, looking forlorn Much like myself

 

[Ms T]

We're quite light on booze at the moment - just four bottles of red wine and a bottle of champagne that is for when I bring the baby home. It's gathering dust on the sideboard, looking forlorn Much like myself

Put it in the fridge!

 

[Voley]

Why are you an alcoholic if you have lots of booze in the house? Surely you're more likely to have a problem if you haven't, because you've drunk it already.

Oh, I 'recycle' fairly often.

 

[Voley]

Does it turn you blue?

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Have you drunk a whole bottle of creme de mures already.

Not on my own. We tend to buy fairly cheap (OK very cheap) wine and cheap white wine it is vastly improved with bramble liqueur. It's lovely on ice-cream too.

 

[ethel]

i don't drink, but i have a bottle of red wine. i also have a bottle of wine that's been open for months. really must throw it out.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Does it turn you blue?

I think he's meant to look like a cheerful plum.

 

[Guineveretoo]

A box of Soave in the fridge and a bottle each of crème de mûres, white rum, whisky, apple & pear obstwasser, korn, steinhäger, and some lovely plum herber zestsch.

Ooh, your drinks cabinet sound really interesting

 

[seeformiles]

10 gallons of homemade wine in the garage (about 60 bottles), a dozen bottles of conventional wines, 1litre of Scotch (brother in law buys me one every year - gets used for hot whiskeys when someone's got a cold), 4 litres of assorted German Schnapps, maybe a dozen cans, 2 bottles of Absinthe and some novelty spirits and liqueurs.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Ooh, your drinks cabinet sound really interesting

Only because I've just come back from Lower Saxony.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Absinthe

When my great-grandmother met my Mum for the first time she said (imagine this in a strong French accent)

"There is a drink called absinthe. It is very very bad for you. It makes you go blind. Here, I got you a bottle."

 

[Voley]

If you knock Absinthe back quickly, it's not like being pissed, I found.

It's sort of euphoric, quite energised for a bit. Then you rapidly descend into awful tequila-slammer-dribbling-and-soiling-yourself territory.

There's probably a fine line to be trod that's quite nice but I'm buggered if I've ever found it.

 

[perplexis]

I have a not bad spirits collection but nothing compared to Athos:
1 bottle Becherovka
1 bottle Chartreuse (green)
1 bottle Strega
1 bottle Kahlua Especial
1 bottle Amaretto
1 bottle Cointreau
1 bottle Picon
1 bottle Zubrowka
1 bottle Brandy
1 bottle Single Malt
1 half bottle JD

Some wines:
2 bottles Pedro Ximenez sherry
3 bottles of delicious red wine
1 bottle delicious white wine
1 bottle delicious port

But tragically I have no beer at the moment.

 

[QueenOfGoths]

I have a not bad spirits collection but nothing compared to Athos:
1 bottle Becherovka
1 bottle Chartreuse (green)
1 bottle Strega
1 bottle Kahlua Especial
1 bottle Amaretto
1 bottle Cointreau
1 bottle Picon
1 bottle Zubrowka
1 bottle Brandy
1 bottle Single Malt
1 half bottle JD

Some wines:
2 bottles Pedro Ximenez sherry
3 bottles of delicious red wine
1 bottle delicious white wine
1 bottle delicious port

But tragically I have no beer at the moment.

I'd trade you 3 or 4 of our beers for a bottle of sherry but Mr. QofG's doesn't understand the delights of a glass - or more - of fortified wine!

 

[berniedicters]

• About 20 bottles of various French reds.
• About 20 bottles of various French whites
• 18 bottles of home-made wines (elderberry, elderflower and blackberry)
• 22 pints of home-made bitter (4.5%ABV)
• 1 pint of last year's Xmas ale (7.5% ABV)
• 43 pints strong homebrew cider (8.5%ABV)
• 2 half-full bottles of mandarin brandy
• 1.5 bottles of armagnac
• Half a bottle of Tesco "cooking brandy"
• A bottle of home-made sloe gin.
• 2 bottles Bombay Sapphire gin
• half a bottle of Calvados
• 3 bottles of some Badger ale of some description
• 3 litres Breton cider
• Small bottle raspberry liqueur we bought in Lulworth
• 1 bottle advocaat from last Christmas
• 1 bottle creme de cassis
• 1 bottle creme au framboises

Do I win? You caught us at a bad time - just back from France, and me just bottling a big batch of cider. Give us a month or two, and half of it will be gone

 

[Funky_monks]

I am off the booze at the mo, cos out here in the countree the midwives suggest a booze-ban for the 'partners' in the final six weeks of pregnancy in case I have to drive me wife to the hospital.

Lying around to tempt me I have:

- About 35 bottles of (bought) wine, mostly red
- Three malts (in varous states of consumption): Laphroaig, Bowmore (12 yr) and Ardbeg
- Three bottles of port
- Nearly a full vodka
- Beefeater Gin
- A bottle of Jack Daniels someone brought to my stag do a year ago
- Half a bottle of Ballie Nichol Jarvie (blended whisky)
- 5 Gallons (ish) of homemade apple wine
- 8 single gallon demijons of elderberry and blackcurrant wine.

All homebrew is ready to drink/bottle.

 

[seeformiles]

When my great-grandmother met my Mum for the first time she said (imagine this in a strong French accent)

"There is a drink called absinthe. It is very very bad for you. It makes you go blind. Here, I got you a bottle."

What a woman!

 

[boing!]

About 3 cans of Fosters that someone left after a bbq, about a third of a bottle of Captain Morgans rum, and one bottle of cheap and nasty red wine gathering dust on top of the fridge. Bit of a poor show all round.

 

[Ceej]

8 bottles of Bombay Sapphire (I often get it as a gift! Honest!)
1 bottle Tanqueray
1 bottle Sloe gin
10 or so bottles of red/white wine
6 cans Strongbow
3 bottles Champagne
1 unidentified purple liqueur from Spain
1/2 bottle vodka
1/3 bottle dark rum

As you can see, we don't drink a lot indoors. If we brought home all we drank when we were out, it would be a different story!

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Hm, not a lot actually. Half-full bottles of Captain Morgan and Bombay Sapphire, litre of Smirnoff pretty much untouched, and some cachaça that I got duty free on a ferry to Norway ages ago. I don't really drink spirits much, only when making cocktails, which I only do at parties and this place is far too small to have a party in.

I should pop across the road to Majestic.

 

[ScallyWag II]

Quite a bit

4 bottles of tequilla, 2 of ouzo, 2 sambucca, 1 benedictine, 2 amaretto, 1 kahlua, 2 jack daniels, 2 vokda, 1 grand marnier, 2 triple sec, 4 port, 2 sherry (mainly for xmas and cooking), 3 madeira, 2 baileys, 2 limoncello, 1 pimms, 1 brandy, 6 white wines (mainly chardonnay for cooking cos i can't drink white wine anymore without feeling ill), about 40 bottles of various reds and about 20 of rose. Also a few bottles of cava and champagne which i also can't drink.

Lots of the wine was bought in a recent trip to Calais. But i drink wine regularly so it will go. The spirits tbh i couldn't date a lot of them. I got custody of the drinks cabinet in my divorce 9 years ago, and most haven't been touched

 

[lighterthief]

Hm, one bottle of vintage cava, half a bottle of gin, and about 80 bottles of home brewed beer.

 

[baldrick]

a bottle of nasty cheap tequila that might have to go in cocktails or something and a box of red wine.

 

[secretsquirrel]

*makes note of best houses to 'pop in for a quick drink*

Ahem. A small bottle of honey vodka (way too sweet - wish I'd bought more cherry vodka instead), a bottle of Zubrowka; half a bottle of cheap tequila D @ NVP - yup, it's the law!) - so cheap it has a plastic Mexican hat on the top - fuct reserves this strictly for the end of the evening when all other options are exhausted. And a supermarket own brand bottle of dark rum - this is used only for making my Christmas Crumble Muffins or for adding a hefty slug to hot chocolate (my emergency drink when all other options are exhausted!)

I also daren't keep wine in the house cos it won't ever last very long. The most I'll get is Threshers 3 for 2 and it's always a fight to try and make it last longer than one night!

 

[Voley]

half a bottle of cheap tequila D @ NVP - yup, it's the law!) - so cheap it has a plastic Mexican hat on the top -

Bonus points awarded for the plastic hat.

 

[rutabowa]

umm i might have half a bottle of cough medicine at the back of the cupboard, i think that's got some alcohol in.

 

[May Kasahara]

half a bottle of cheap tequila D @ NVP - yup, it's the law!) - so cheap it has a plastic Mexican hat on the top

My best friend brought two bottles of tequila back from Mexico. One was a high quality sipping tequila that she kept jealously guarded in her bedroom; the other was a large container of something called 'Buen Amigo' that resided in the communal kitchen I seem to remember the latter having a plastic hat.

 

[DRINK?]

quite a bit though not a huge fan as if it is there will drink it....about 36 bottles of St Emillion, wedding leftovers, 15 bottles of champers wedding leftovers, a couple of big bottles of grey goose in the fridge, a bottle of bombay saphire, some expensive brandy I doubt will ever get drunk, a bottle of rice wine with a snake in.... a few odd things like ginger wine ( for cooking ) some pims, blue bols and the stuff you add to champagne what the f is that??? and have just bought 8 cans of cider and a bottle of cheap red plonk for the weekend ....tonight

 

[Voley]

a large container of something called 'Buen Amigo'

Bonus points awarded for not even being in a proper bottle.

 

[bouncer_the_dog]

im half an £8 cote du rhone in and 1/2 to go... thats it. Started out quite yucky but now im pissed it tastes alright.