What's Lurking in Your Drinks Cupboard?

[Cian]

If the Irish Cream is open for more than 6 weeks, bin it. Will be an undrinkable goo now. Probably still won't actually make you sick but will be disgusting.

Everything get labelled with opening date here unless its not going to last long un-drunk, after a particularly rank martini was knocked together with extremely old vermouth.

Primarly just whiskey here at the moment - Black Bush, Crested 10, Bushmills 10, Talisker, Johnny Walker Black and a selection of Aldi and Lidl's surprisingly good cheap "posh" whiskeys - Highland Black 8, Glen Marnoch Islay and Abrachan.

 

[tinycowboy]

Got absolutely hammered a few yrs ago on Banana liqueur & Tequila (Electric Banana) took me 3 days to get rid of the headache.

How long was it before the smell of a banana didn't make you retch?

 

[Worried Man Blues]

Hasn't everyone got a bottle of Ouzo with one slug taken out, no not one of those worm drinks, and realised it's not the same as in Zante?

 

[Danny-Boy]

Shame it wasn't a year earlier. A '70 would be a fabulous find.

On topic: I've kept a bottle of babycham that my Grandmother bought about a year before she died. I think I may also have a bottle of Campari in there; I can't remember why/how I acquired it.

Wasn't 1972 good too? Was out in Portugal at Christmas then.

I picked up a strange bottle of some kind of fruit looking like figs floating in cognac earlier this year at a secondhand shop, hope it's drinkable for Xmas.

 

[Goldstone1976]

Wasn't 1972 good too?

'72 was considerably better than '71, but not a declared vintage (declared = all the main houses produce a port made from grapes harvested in the year in question). From memory, two or three houses declared that year (including Fonseca?). If you have a '72 main house port still, it'll be fully mature, but quite drinkable!

 

[Southern Scouse]

I have so much stuff and it just sits there year after year. Bottles of Tia Maria, stolychnoa ? Vodka, port etc. I do have unopened bottles of a 1990 12 old Glenturret single malt and a 25 year old bottle of Mann? Champagne as well.
However the best I have is some golden Pinga made from sugar beat in Brazil which is also about 30 years old. Only have about a litre left and always celebrate new years with a very small glass. Need the rest of the year to recover!

 

[fat old seagull]

What's Lurking in Your Drinks Cupboard?

As an avid viewer of Crimewatch I'd need to ask whether you are an Alcoholic Burglar, or a spy from AA ?