$100 Stocks Your Bar!!

[Patchez]

I had found this years ago but never could remember it or find it again. Finally i did.

This article makes some very valid points and is a cocktail guide. As they state... spend the money on the good shit if you are serving neat or rocks. Save this cheap stuff for the mixers. That is what it was initially created for...sweet and sugary masks for rotgut.

http://lifehacker.com/5337547/stock-your-bar-for-100

[oettinger]

Ice - about a pound per person. Holla die waldfee, no more than ten guests for me then. Deep winter is another story though, does snow count?

[Palinka (RIP)]

If only there was a UK version.

[Frankennietzsche]

If only there was a UK version.

For 100USD, it wouldn't be so much of a "stock your bar" as it would be a "buy a bottle".

[Palinka (RIP)]

For 100USD, it wouldn't be so much of a "stock your bar" as it would be a "buy a bottle".

You aren't far off the mark. I went booze shopping today and obtained: 1 bottle of Jim Beam (for £18), 1 bottle of Polish Rye Vodka (since rye whiskey is so hard to find, I thought that I'd try it in vodka - for £20), 1 bottle of Scotch (Grants' Ale-Cask aged, blended, for £17.50), a bottle of Plymouth Gin (for £15) and a bottle of Sailor Jerry (for £22). Plus 12x500mls Crabbies Alcoholic Ginger Beer (for £8), a sample case of 8x500mls ales (all different in region and taste, for £12) and 6 bottles of wine (all different but all French, for £35), today. I just moved to a new apartment and needed to stock up, and I was pretty lucky on the prices. But this is not a cheap country to live in; hell, petrol/benzine/gasoline costs £1.30 (on average) per litre, over here, making it over £5.67 per gallon. A price that would probably spark a revolution were it to be inflicted upon US citizens. It's lucky that we're a collection of such small islands (and a bit of another island).

[mistah willies]

When I was very poor, them plastic handles kept the vodika safe from breakage. ...Ya know, diving from a moving vehicle.

But now, I tend to spend a bit more so's I can drink the next day too

[oettinger]

vodka - for £20) I just moved to a new apartment.

And would you drunken people please stop breaking Palinka`s new fancy furniture! Don`t be the assholes you are and carry on.
No. that belongs in the middle of the gentlemens room! You are damn stupid. aren`t you?

[G_W]

Yup, I just spent $80 and picked up a handle of really cheap vodak for mixing, a handle of SJ, and a liter of Bombay.

Oh, and jalapeno stuffed olives.

[booznik]

Yup, I just spent $80 and picked up a handle of really cheap vodak for mixing, a handle of SJ, and a liter of Bombay.

Oh, and jalapeno stuffed olives.

Are the olives for cocktails, or booze-snacking? I find stuffed olives delicious on their own, although the garlic variety is my preferred poison.

The price of booze in the UK, Canada, and the dastardly US Control States, in descending order of insanity, is insane.

[IrishForYou'reFucked]

The price of booze in the UK, Canada, and the dastardly US Control States, in descending order of insanity, is insane.

That is the black hearted truth. Even with the discount stores in nearby NH, my flatmate and I spend close to 400USD just keeping our home bar stocked each month

[booznik]

The price of booze in the UK, Canada, and the dastardly US Control States, in descending order of insanity, is insane.

That is the black hearted truth. Even with the discount stores in nearby NH, my flatmate and I spend close to 400USD just keeping our home bar stocked each month

Here in California, we have Bevmo. A lit Bevmo sign at night is a grail-shaped beacon for the drunkard. They are the Walmart of booze, minus the sweatshop products.

In the states that have Costco (and are not control), I've heard the booze is also economical there.

[mistah willies]

$100 for half a bottle of Blue. Sipping, not draaaanking. Patchez always says to start well and end badly. I ascribe to this caveat emptor.

[booznik]

$100 for half a bottle of Blue. Sipping, not draaaanking. Patchez always says to start well and end badly. I ascribe to this caveat emptor.

Scotch, in her three forms, be they blended, single malt, or single grain, should always be sippled, never drankled. Learn well, students, from the wisdom of Professor Willies.

[booznik]

$100 for half a bottle of Blue. Sipping, not draaaanking. Patchez always says to start well and end badly. I ascribe to this caveat emptor.

Scotch, in her three forms, be they blended, single malt, or single grain, should always be sippled, never drankled. Learn well, students, from the wisdom of Professor Willies.

While endrunkled, I pontificated from force of habit, but truth be told, Lady Scotch has four forms now. That guy at Compass Box created a Blended Grain, to much consternation at the time. It's called Hedonism. It's worth trying for the adventurous, although give it a miss if your cash reserves are low and your drunkard needs are high. It's an exercise in subtlety, and personally, trying it once was enough for me.

[mistah willies]

Call me a hedonist, a troglodyte, a purveyor of fine wines and whiskeys and bourbons and rums and gin


and I'll buy the next round.