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Journal heliocentric's Journal: Where do you keep your booze? 10

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As a relatively new alcoholic I've been enjoying many of the fruits from the booze tree. The libations have been enjoyed frequently and we're always seeking out new things.

To grow our collection we follow some simple rules for replacement. When a bottle goes empty, at least one of the following conditions must be met when purchasing a replacement:

1) A larger bottle of the same alcohol is to be purchased. (This is called the Super Size rule)
2) A better brand or version of the same alcohol is to be purchased. (This is called the Upgrade rule)
3) A new kind of alcoholic substance is to be purchased in addition to the replacement. (This is called the Expansion rule)

By following these rules you'll be well on your way to drunkenness is no time. After a few months to a year, you'll have a collection that would make any frat envious, but where should you keep it?

The perfect solution now would be to have an actual bar. Entertaining would be easy, storage a snap, and hey - it's just darn cool. But this would require lots of capital (impacting the booze budget) and space at the sacrifice of part of my trains or computers setup. Trust me, you can't get me drunk enough to want to sacrifice either of those.

Our current solution is to store the alcohol under the kitchen sink. That's right, it's down there with the cleaning products. Palmolive-tini, anyone? Comet shooter? How about some Formula 409 on the rocks? Fantastik boilermaker? No? Well, now you see the problem. (But you really should try the Buttery-AJAX -Nipples mmm-mmmmm).

Thus, what I'd like to find would be a nice "liquor cabinet." Something that would look nice in the living room, provide storage for the bottles in use (backup storage can still be kept elsewhere), and allow easy access for the user(s). Look out Martha Stewart, easy entertaining would be just around the corner!

My vision is for an approximately 4-foot tall bookcase-sized device with two doors. The doors would be wood frame with glass and wooden cross-lattice stuff to make it pretty. This would allow a guest to see into the goodies and invite enjoyment, but keep the dust off of things and provide organization. As we have no children (and generally despise them) a lock is not needed, but I can live with one being there. An inner shelf would be nice for maximizing the storage, and I'd prefer wood here for strength.

We already have a nice wine rack that holds all of our bottles of wine, wine glasses, and even the martini glasses, too. Thus, storage of these things is not needed, but martini shaker, shot glasses, and an ice bucket on top of the liquor cabient would be great. We already have these items; they just live in kitchen cabinets.

The sad thing is that in this day of political correctness, AA, and rising gas prices such a creature doesn't seem to exist. Check out this article over on modern drunkard. What a shame! It seems a good liquor cabinet just doesn't belong in today's "modern" society.

What's a boozehound to do? Any of you know where I can find something like what I'm looking for? Please, save us from the Brillo bongs!

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  • They have wood, power tools, and finishes/paints.

    Whether you sample the nectar of the gods while making the chariot of the gods is your choice...

  • We store our liquor in those high cabinets that appear above sinks, stoves, and refrigerators. Unfortunately, our collection is large enough that we also had to use the one above the stove (probably bad because of the heat).

    It's better than below the sink, but not by much.

    • I also keep my booze in a high cabinet above the stove. But with the frequency the stove actually gets used, the booze probably has nothing to fear.. not sure if that's a good thing or bad. :)

    • I used to keep it there, but there's three problems.

      1) Shelly is too short to get booze, and the drunker she gets, the closer to the floor she gets. Don't beleive me? Check out the pix from new years.

      2) Alcohol at heights and drunks is not a good combination.

      3) We don't have room up high to store it all. Plus with buying the bigger bottles (cheaper per quantity) they don't fit in the majority of our uppers, especially over the stove.
  • My Mum used to work for a hi fi company [nad.co.uk]. We snapped up some of their display cabinets from one of the audiophile exhibitions they were doing when they'd finished with them. They're modular units, close enough to a cube with 0.5m sides, and are stackable. We currently have 3 of them full of alcohol.

  • Unless you are a vile mixist, should should only need three or four bottles of booze. I recommend the following...

    • A good bottle of Islay whiskey. I like Laphroaig [laphroaig.com].
    • A good bottle of highland whiskey. I'd recommend Glenlivet [theglenlivet.com] 18 yr, although I'm drinking a bottle of Glenlivet Cellar Collection 1983 [whiskymag.com] right now, and it is just about the smoothest stuff I've ever had.
    • A good bottle of Irish whiskey. I like Bushmills [bushmills.com] Malt 16yr, although the 10yr is also quite good.
    • A bottle of blended whiskey to give to gues
    • have a refined taste.

      Just because you drinkists enjoy a beverage that tastes like it came from a refinery doesn't mean you have a refined taste.
    • This [zimwiz.com] is what we had on hand for new years. That's all our booze. Other things arrived to more round things out, and the collection has grown since then. It also doesn't include the fridge'd items like the irish creame and mudslide.

  • I keep mine back in the US, with most of my books, music, etc. (oblg. "you insensitive clod").

    --MarkusQ

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