POTD- PROJECT OF THE DAY: What Did You Make In Your Shop Today?

[projectnut]

I just had a shot of Seagram's VO neat. The bottle was about 42 years old or so, as the label said Seagram's was 125 years old. Seagram's is 167 years old now. Don't know if some the alcohol escaped or not, but that was a very smooth whiskey. Actually, I was pleasantly surprised. I think my Dad brought it home from Canada in the early 80's. Apparently my folks weren't drinkers. Found the bottle in the house when I was cleaning it out in September. Anyways, I was thinking of him and toasted him with that shot.

Somehow over the years extended family members got the idea that my wife and I preferred bottles of alcohol for Christmas presents. I don't know where they got the idea, because although we're not teetotalers, we aren't heavy drinkers either. I believe it's been at least a couple months since I've had a drink.

Anyway, year after year the booze kept coming for Christmas. Every year we would take it down to the basement and set it on a shelf in the pantry. A couple years ago we decided it was time to clean things up a bit, so we pulled all the booze off the shelves. There were at least 60 bottles with some of them being so old they still had the tax stamps across the cap.

We knew we'd never drink it, so we started offering it to other relatives. In the end we probably got rid of half a dozen bottles. Rather than put the remainder back on the shelves we decided to dump it down the drain. I can't imagine what it smelled like at the sewage treatment plant. The guy that drives the recycling truck must have thought we had quite a party.

 

[WobblyHand]

During the house clean out, I dumped a lot of alcohol. I knew it wouldn't be very good after decades of room temperature storage. The only bottles I brought home was the VO 1.14 quarts and an even more ancient bottle of sake that was transported from Japan in 1965. The rest had to go. We don't drink much either, so there's no point to retaining it.

 

[mmcmdl]

I would have guessed you for a Yuengling man. But that would leave you without jokes about the flavor, right?

Have plenty of it . Oldest beer in the USA ! It's terrible having a well stocked liquor store 100 yards away from the house . Sometimes I splurge on the good stuff , sometimes its just FNW stuff .

 

[WobblyHand]

I have to drive to a state liquor store for the hard stuff. But it's a 10 minute walk to the little neighborhood store, for beer and wine. Grocery stores can sell beer and wine, but hard alcohol has to be sold in a state liquor store.

 

[mmcmdl]

I can't drink whiskey or any of the good hard stuff . Simply low proof here , although have some old bottles for the relatives . My niece out in Cali hit the Makers Mark this year . Personally , I can't stand the taste or the smell . OTOH , anything white goes down too easy , but then I lose stuff .

 

[ChazzC]

Spending NY's Eve with my end mill extravaganza ! Went up and bought some Genny Cream Ale for the occasion . 30 years ago this crap tasted like Panther pizz with the foam farted off . Whooda thunk , after all these years , it hasn't changed . Have a great New Year everyone .

Never did care for those Genny's. Only thing worse was Iron City 3.2% we had in W.Va in the mid 70's. Had to drink a lot to get a buzz. OMG that was ghastly.

Happy New Years! Only have two beers left in the house, but I do have a several bottles of single malt Scotch, so I don't have to go out foraging for alcohol tonight.

Iron City out of Pittsburgh ! Another blast from the past .

Add to that ....Dubuque Star....
"Like a honeymoon on the ocean....or beach...
Effing near water!!

Ah, the good old days of regional beers:

Narragansett/Falstaff, Natty Boh and Lager (there’s only one!). For some reason reminds me of Art Donovan: maybe because he had a beer store after he retired.

 

[WobblyHand]

A
H, the hood old days of regional beers:

Narragansett/Falstaff, Natty Boh and Lager (there’s only one!). For some reason reminds me of Art Donovan: maybe because he had a beer store after he retired.

Have a 'gansett! I remember that!

 

[mmcmdl]

I started collecting cans back in the mid 70s . Went to shows , collected them off the roadsides etc . They're still upstairs above the garage . Still hanging the puzzles I put together as an 18 YO ! $1.50 scrap these days , but it kept us busy over the years .

 

[ChazzC]

Have a 'gansett! I remember that!

A mis-spent Summer on my own in Newport at Communications Officer & Surface Warfare Schools with nothing to do but play racket ball and walk the original Cliff Walk (before the safety rails & concrete paths - you walked on the edge of the cliff and through the backyards of the Mansions); wife joined me in August.

 

[wachuko]

A Happy New Year to all, and hopefully I'll never be broke enough to have to drink cheap/lite beer. Will be a Makers Manhattan or two tonight to celebrate the new year, and yesterday's (hopefully successful) shoulder surgery. The better half is cooking up some lobster for the occasion. Mike

Happy New Year to all!!

We are still in PR and the power just came back!! Spending it at my sister-in-law… The neighbors got together to celebrate here.