How long will your bunker last?

[Saul_cooperstein]

Interesting offshoot in the 'beam and the new pricing reality' thread on calculating how many years of bunker one has. Thought could be an interesting thread on its own. I've got 175 or so full bottles and 25 open averaging around half full each. This is approximately 4636 oz which at 15oz average per week gives me 309 weeks of stash or just under 6 years. 

[berto]

I'm not going to do math but probably a decade.  Of course I keep adding to it so forever.

[Harry in WashDC]

A rolling 3 to 4 years, conservatively and with NO sharing or overdrinking, and the outer limit grows weekly.  But then, it's a fluid, and entropy always increases -- that's the (second) law (of thermodynamics), you know, and I always obey the law.

Edit - oh, and this presumes I ONLY drink from my stash - no cocktails, wine, beer, etc., even in restaurants.

Edited December 14, 2016 by Harry in WashDC
added another "fixed" parameter - cocktails

[jvd99]

There's a similar thread asking how many bottles are in your bunker, but I guess it doesn't factor in each person's rate of consumption, which is another thread.  This sounds like a great mash-up of subjects.  I've got about 300 bottles bunkered (bourbon/rye/scotch).  I'd say I consume a bottle every two weeks after sampling out 4 oz. which comes to an acceptable 1.5 oz/day on average.  That gives me in the neighborhood of 11.5 years if I never bought another bottle, which is not possible.  Since my bunker never seems to be depleted because its routinely replenished, I'd say mine will last indefinitely.  That gives me a good idea for an offshoot thread about what to do with all of our unopened bottles when we kick the bucket.

[Thig]

I think that comment in the first post on this thread probably came from me so I will repeat it in this thread.

 

I thought I was set for MANY years to come but turns out that may not be the case.  Follow the math: I have 150 bottles bunkered, at 25.36 oz per bottle that is 3,804 ounces, at 3 oz per nightly pour that is 1,268 pours which is only 3.47 years.  I guess I better keep buying because I certainly hope I don't die that soon.

[Bourbonmakesmepoop]

you guys are all set for the impending zombie apocalypse.

i hope you dont run into Neegan.

[Enoch]

At 61, I debate this all the time. I have about 600 bottles bunkered and 100 open. Most of the bunkered bottles are dusties or premiums that are practically unreplacable. So my debate is how quickly I should consume them. I don't want to run out but I also don't want to leave any behind. Or even worse, a friend of mine in Kentucky developed an allergy to something in whiskey and had to stop drinking or die. Now that would really piss me off!!!

[Special Reserve]

I often thought of my bunker as my bourbon IRA.  Well the most recent report is that I'm not drinking enough and it may outlive me (or at least based upon current consumption rates.)  At age 67 and not knowing how many years left and not knowing if my rate  of consumption will change, it may increase when I retire, I only buy bottles that are barrel proof as that is mostly what i've been drinking lately.  I do plan on buying a Rebel Yell 10 year 100 proof to determine how close it is to Weller Centennial but I've been too busy lately to go on a hunt.

[fishnbowljoe]

"How long will my bunker last?"  Probably longer than me. 

 

Cheers Joe

[jsrudd]

I have about 75 bottles bunkered. About half are 700ml and the other half is 750ml. That's a total of 54,400ml (37 x 700 + 38 x 750). I don't drink bourbon exclusively, so I probably consume about 350 ml per week. That means I got enough for 154 weeks or about 3 years.

 

Like Enoch, almost all of these are not dusties or LEs that are not replaceable. I've resisted stocking up on regular pours (that's what a store's inventory is for), but I may need to reconsider this position given rising prices and scarcity.   

[JTaylor]

As  long as I continue to buy more than I drink... forever... 

[camduncan]

just shy of 200 bottles in the bunker, 50 or so are open.  My consumption is between 5-8 bottles per year, so I figure I've got a good 20 years or more...

[Harry in WashDC]

2 hours ago, fishnbowljoe said:

"How long will my bunker last?"  Probably longer than me. 

 

Cheers Joe

As Kevin Costner said in some movie, "Say it ain't so, Joe."

[Richnimrod]

My math skills being what they are (nonexistent), as well as my disinclination to drag out all those damned bottles just to count 'em, Ill have to throw up a total WAG:

15-years at my current rates of consumption/replacement (give or take about 5-years).

However, since that will leave me at about age 82, and I assume my consumption will begin to slowly diminish within the next few years, I imagine a more likely scenario will be that Gary will inherit several dozen bottles or maybe much more than that even.    I fervently hope I drink up all the good ones before I croak.    Sorry son.    Heeeeee-He!

[jfw]

Isn't longer than me the real answer to this question?

 

There may be some OC 7 dustys and an open willett pot still left for anyone that wants them  

I'd feed them to guests, but I'm just not that mean. 

 

 

[elmossle]

Without trying to do any complicated (to me anyway) math, I would take a conservative guess and say I have enough to last me at least 3 or 4 years if I didn't buy another bottle tomorrow. But as we all know, that wouldn't be any fun and we MUST continue to add to the bunker!!

[Prof_Stack]

C'mon guys, we know our bunkers will outlive us, since we continue to replenish it, right?

[Tony Santana]

Good question.  I too consider my bunker to be my bourbon (well, whiskey) IRA.  Way too many variables to give any kind of definitive answer, including rate of consumption (I know roughly what I drink now, but figure at some point it will diminish), the extent to which I share with others (always higher in the cold weather months when I regularly share bottles at the curling club), the rate at which I continue to buy new bottles (I've been claiming I won't purchase as many as I have been over the fast few years, and am slowly starting to comply), how long I live (I can tell you what the actuarial tables say, but who knows?), continued health and the extent to which I am reluctant to open the rarer bottles in the collection (they're all theoretically destined to be consumed).  

 

But using some reasonable assumptions, I'd say at LEAST 10 years, and probably a couple more than that.

[ccleve23]

I figure about 2 years to get through it. 

[JoeTerp]

My estimate would be about 6 years.

[garbanzobean]

I never really specc'ed my bunker to drink exclusively from because I'm not even 35.  If I were desperate enough to do that, I would probably end up selling everything I could off to feed my family, though.  I have a few normal bottles that I tend to replace when I drink, but the majority of my bunker is LEs, dusties, store selections, or Independent Bottlings (in the case of scotch).  If I use my bunker in the spirit in which it is intended, it will last me a lifetime and allow me to pull out many a nice old bottle for special occasions long after they have disappeared or become unaffordable.

Edited December 15, 2016 by garbanzobean

[ratcheer]

My bunker will probably outlive me. I'm not drinking nearly as much as I used to, and I still have special bottles that I have refused to open for more than 10 years.

 

Tim

[Auracom]

No calculations here either... but 30% of the bottles I've put away are intended to be opened 25+ years down the road. The idea is #1 - survive long enough to retire, #2 - while retired, drink absolutely everything til no single bottle remains unopened.

[MTNBourbon]

Not that many bottles in mine, but quite a while I think, maybe 2-3 years, I don't know.

[MTNBourbon]

Not that many bottles in mine, but quite a while I think, maybe 2-3 years, I don't know.