Never been much of a spirits man (well other than vodka in my student days). But I’ve recently happened upon the two hip flasks I own (gifts on my 18th and 21st birthdays so, er, nicely maturing). I figured I’d press one into service, but with what tipple?

So, go on. What’s your little secret…?

mould 🙁 😳

Calvados – marvellous

Hmm. Might be some Calvados bought for cooking lurking somewhere in the garage.

Spiced rum.
Or
My own damson gin
Or
One I’m working on: ginger steeped scotch

*pops flask into handbag*

lemon & mushroom vodka

or

chilli sambuka

Fresh air at the moment but some decent malt when I use it.

jura origin.

Rusty nail or Fireball

Drambuie. 😀

JD honey
A single malt of some sort
Spiced rum

These are a few of my favourite things 🙂

Excellent stuff*

*reserves position on salted caramel vodka….

Absinthe in one, kraken rum in the other.

Having said I’m not much of a spirits person, I do have 1/3 of a bottle of Kraken rum in the garage (almost 2 years old).

*starts rummaging*

Whisky mac and rusty nails are popular.

EDIT: Bullshot for meat eaters.

Laphroaig. Always.

Empty, but will be replenished with King’s Ginger very soon. Or maybe Glayva.

A Macallan 18 yo.

Kings Ginger but also want to make some Bullshot!

Nothing. Still waiting for STW to send it. Only been 5or6 months.

Rum in my flask

Just cleared my attic and found a great vintage glass hip flask, complete with case and supping cup, happy days

Laphroaig. Always.

This. Precisely and only this.

home made sloe gin, or Caol Ila depending on the occasion.

Vimto…

Laphroaig and occasionally Ardbeg in my spare one 😉

Laphroaig or Talisker.

Any decent brandy. If i had the money it’d be a nice bottle of Hine.

Black Grouse – not expensive and a good amount of Highland Park in it

Rusty nail is a genius tipple.

Currently running sloe gin in one and bushmills 12 in another. Port is ace when chilled in my salopets ankle pocket.

Mine both live in the ‘camping’ box for climbing trips etc in the van. One with Laphroaig Qtr Cask & the other with Kraken.

home made blackberry gin

Lagavulin 16

I was gifted a few (half) bottles last Christmas, which have been used to keep my STW hipflask topped up.

Best use was on Arran this summer. We were climbing a couple of remote classics (Sou’Wester Slabs and South Ridge Direct) and had an epic (ropes got stuck on a traverse and wouldn’t pull through).

We topped out after about 13 hours and still had a 3 hour down climb and walk out to go. We were buzzing but exhausted.

My mate, almost unbelievably, said “I would kill for some Lagavulin”, which is his favourite whisky.

I asked if the 16 would do, pulled the hipflask out of my pack and handed it to him 🙂

The look on his face was brilliant. Made the walk out more bearable!

Some stuff George Osborne gave me.

It’s good stuff maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.

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Sloe gin or ruby Port in mine.

Jose Cuervo Gold.
Tends to take people by surprise as for some reason it’s not something they expect?

Frangelico mmmm nutty