The What's In Your Liquor Cabinet? Thread

[Caliga]

I was looking at a whiskey review website earlier and realized I actually have a lot of the top rated whiskeys on there.  So I thought it might be a fun exercise to list out the contents of my 'liquor cabinet' and give notes about what I like to drink and how I like to drink it.  Feel free to contribute thoughts about your own collections and drinking habits.

I keep a small 'bar' in my upstairs office with my favorite whiskies, along with a brandy snifter and a hurricane lamp-style bulb glass.  Upstairs I have:

The Dalmore Cigar Malt Single Highland Malt Scotch
Knob Creek 9-year Small Batch Bourbon
Laphroaig Islay 10-year Single Malt Scotch
Laphroaig Islay 10-year Single Malt Cask Strength (58.6%) Scotch Whisky
The Glenlivet French Oak Reserve 15-year Single Malt Scotch
Sandeman Ruby Port

I generally drink all of the above neat or just cut slightly with water, excepting the Laphroaig Cask Strength, which I haven't cracked open yet.  Generally, I prefer the Laphroaig and Knob Creek as my sipping whiskies of choice.  I also like to make Old Fashioneds with the Knob Creek, but my favorite bourbon for an Old Fashioned is Basil Hayden's, of which I have two bottles at home I've yet to crack open.

We also have a sort of mini-bar in the kitchen, most often used to mix cocktails with.  Right now it has:

Jim Beam White Label (typically I won't drink this; more often we use it to cook with or maybe as a cocktail mixer, but it's too bland and rough to drink straight IMO)
Cruzan Coconut Rum
Cruzan Aged Rum
Cruzan Pineapple Rum
Cruzan Black Rum
Christian Brothers Mixing Brandy
Grand Marnier
El Tesoro Tequila
Jose Cuervo Tequila
Tres Generaciones Tequila
Pinnacle Whipped Cream Vodka
Absolut Vanilla Vodka

The rums are used to make Turks and Caicos Rum Punch, which I picked up when I was there in November and have made on a regular basis since because it's so damn delicious.

Maybe tomorrow I'll go downstairs and inventory the liquor I keep in my full bar down there.  I have a hell of a lot more bourbon down there, including Maker's Mark and Woodford Reserve (the latter being what I consider to be the best bourbon that's not limited run and/or insanely expensive (e.g. William Larue Weller)).

[CountDeMoney]

Jesus Christ, drinking problem much there, Cal?  LBJ didn't have that much shit.


Cloverland Chocolate Milk.

[Caliga]

I get a lot of it for free. 

[11B4V]

Two unopened bottles of Wild Turkey Rare Breed bought in 2001 and 2003.

and some Desarono or whatever that shit is.

[MadBurgerMaker]

Hm.

Captain Morgan (the gigantic party jug version that was never finished off)
Pyrat XO
Spirit of Texas Rum (from some local-ish distillery)
Kraken (currently being unleashed)
Rebecca Creek Whiskey (another local booze)
Knob Creek Rye
Laphroaig 10
Glenlivet 12
Glenlivet 18
Bombay Sapphire
El Mayor Tequila

[Monoriu]

I have a bottle of Grand Marnier for mixing with coffee and ice-cream.

[Syt]

Bacardi White Rum
Stolichnaya Vodka
Sierra Tequila
Gordon's Dry Gin
Lagavulin Single Islay Malt 16 Years
Laphroaig Single Islay Malt 10 Years
Cragganmore Single Speyside Malt 12 Years
Connemara Turf Mor Peated Single Malt Small Batch Collection

[Jacob]

Leaving out beer and wine...

Fukumitsuya Kagatobi Ai (junmai daiginjo)
Hakutsuru Excellent Junmai (junmai)
unidentified bottle of sake (all the writing on the label is in Japanese)
An unopened bottle of Gekkeikan sake 
Choryo Shuzo plumwine
Aberfeldy 12 y/o
Laphroaig Quarter Cask
Ancnoc 12 y/o
Lagavulin 16 y/o
Glenfiddich 12 y/o
Longmorn 15 y/o
Baileys
Malibu
Quinta do Castos lattle bottle vintage port
Wuliangye 15 y/o (2005)
Wuliangye (1994)
Kweichow Moutai (that's the one they serve at all official CPC and PRC functions - I vastly prefer the Wuliangye)
Two more bottles of Wuliangye (no year)
Two bottles of Aha Toro tequila - one red, one green
A terrible bottle of Starbucks branded Kahlua knockoff
Bombay Sapphire
Martini Dry
Two bottles of "Viking Blood" - a mead from Denmark, bought at the National Museum in Copenhagen

[katmai]

Nothing.

[Siege]

I got vodka, for my mixes, and Y-light plus B-Light.
Thats it.
well, kosher wine too.

[Caliga]

Jake, how does that Chinese stuff compare to say bourbon or scotch?

[mongers]

I have a bottle of Grand Marnier for mixing with coffee and ice-cream.

Mono you're back, I feared you were MIA. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Leaving out beer and wine...
(...)
Quinta do Castos lattle bottle vintage port
(...)

That's wine, if fortified.

[Jacob]

That's wine, if fortified.

Good catch. Psychologically I treat fortified wines as liqueurs not wine, but oint conceded.

[Jacob]

Jake, how does that Chinese stuff compare to say bourbon or scotch?

It's stronger, for one; usually 90 to 110 proof or so. That took a bit of adjustment. The better stuff has, IMO, the same level of complexity as a good single malt, but in a completely different part of the palette.