You’ve had a rough night, and you wake up on a beach, carried to the shore by an incoming tide.
You look around and slowly realise that you’re alone on a desrt island. Panic almost has a hold on you until you hear the comforting clink of glass bottles as they bob gently in the waves. You look round to see ONE soggy case of alcoholic beverage, but just one, and all the bottles contain the same product.
Question is, what product would it be?
You don’t know how long you’ll be there, and somehow there’s a corkscrew on the traveller’s pocket-knife you always carry with you for just such an event, so feel free to pick wine.

If you’re teetotal, choose a non-alcoholic drink.

I’m erring towards Angostura 1824, an aged rum – 12 years old. Cliched for a desert island, I know, but too good for glugging back greedily. ‘Sip and savour’ is the strategy here. Make it last.

I’m also pulling an ill-advised all-nighter to put together a PowerPoint presentation for college tomorrow, hence the frivolous distraction.

Tonic water. If I’m on a desert island the Mosquitos and malaria may be a problem.

Ideally of course some nice gin to go in the tonic would be good.

White Russian or Kopparberg Pear cider assuming there is an ice bucket on the island.

You look round to see ONE soggy case of alcoholic beverage

I’d just settle for a case of soggy cleavage thanks

either a case of top German Riesling, or some properly-mixed Long Island Iced Teas.

GG

Got milk?

Um Bongo – they drink that in the Congo – so it’d be idea for the climet.

I wouldn’t be that bothered, stronger the better. Whisky probably. Then I’d stagger along the beach every night for a few weeks shouting at the sea with a bottle in my hand and wake up, hungover and sunburnt.

Mine wouldn’t be an alcoholic drink, sorry.
I’d like milk. Full fat, ice cold, milk.

😀

absinthe

Middleton whiskey.

I’m with furry_marmot on this one. Got to be a Long Island Ice Tea. Particularly as there will be no-one around to accuse you of being gay

JD

I’d like milk. Full fat, ice cold, milk.

A crate of milk? On a tropical island? With no fridge? Yum….

Milky milky

Gin.

I hate gin, so there would be plenty left when I have to bribe my way off the place with a bunch of Somali pirates.

I hate gin. With a passion.

“Milk was a BAD choice”

mmmm

Tea please wot wot.

I’m british

A decent New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc or Vimto (not cheeky). I spent a year in Oz and got so desperate for Vimto near the end. Turns out it’s only available in WA which was a long way away.

Got to be something cask strength… probably from Islay… Aardbeg is springing to mind here.

If it was a chuffing enormous case – say, something a bit more like a container from a container ship… then I would opt instead for some decent German lager. Don’t drink the stuff normally, more a real ale type see, but in the tropics lager is king.

GrahamS – the mossies shouldn’t be about on a desert island, they like humid climates 😉 Besides, I have malaria already so another bout isn’t going to do me any harm!

Tea and a cow for milk! don’t suppose there is a bike tied to the floating bottles too?

Bombay Sapphire? I hope you are recommending the ‘full fat’ export version, not the 40% tat you can buy in the UK?

I always buy a bottle of the 47% stuff when in an airport.

Mmmmm

You sick gin-drinking freaks!

The only good reason to drink gin is after it has spent six months plus in the intimate company of sugar, sloes and a drop of honey.

Other than that, it’s foul, nausea-inducing stuff.

Unlike tequila, which is lovely.

Samuri – you made me laugh with that scenario.
I’m like that with the whisky myself, but to be honest, being alone on a desert island with nowt to enjoy and no-one to annoy but me, I’d likely do the same thing.

Staggering and stumbling in the sand, half-full bottle in my hand.
Muttering obscenities at the sea, cursing it for stranding me.
Shaking my fist at the great beyond, challenging it to take me on.
Collapsing in a drunken heap and slipping into slumber deep.

Not Bombay Sapphire you prole .. proper gin!

gin is good if you drink till your sick – it still tastes like gin. other things taste like alcoholic sick.

mmm gin.

Gin and it’s got to be either Hendricks or Genevers gin

A bottle of gin made my uvula swell up nearly choking me.

Now that morning was a worry.

A bottle of gin made my uvula swell up nearly choking me.

Now that morning was a worry.

Drink the contents and leave the bottle 😉

Nothing like a G&T first thing in the morning.

Particularly when you thought it was a glass of water :vom:

Hmmm is this a tropical desert island or not?

If the sea’s cold then a decent (Eastern European) Vodka
otherwise
Rum and hopefully a spearmint plant. I can then spend my time attempting to perfect a Mohito before follwing Samuri’s example

Gin made your vulva swell? 😯

Can we all meet on the same island, it would be a hell of a c0cktail party.

Yorkshire tea.

Another vote for tea.

Deuchars IPA cos Ive just bought some

tea, strong, 1 sugar………. 8)

A fruit based drink for this lady.
probably cranberry.

Meantime IPA. Just the thing for longlife and it comes in big bottles too.