How many bottles....is too many....

[Government Beard]

As many as you'd like sir!

 

HUZZAH!

Edited January 31, 2018 by Government Beard

[Surtur]

I have about 50 bottles open. I cannot restrain myself when I get a new bottle or a bottle I haven’t had in a long time, I need to drink it that night. I usually have about two 1oz pours a night, mostly every night so I enjoy the variety. I have always been a firm believer in drinking, enjoying, and sharing your whiskey. The only bottles I have sealed are of course extra bottles in the bunker, and I have started a separate bunker for my sons when they are grown so they can taste what bourbon used to taste like in certain periods of time, for better or worse. Bottles like my Four Roses 2017 LE, I took a few pours from it then put it back in my sealed cabinet for safe keeping. When a bottle gets about halfway down, I speed up the process and drink it much more often, but before then I often won’t touch certain bottles for months at a time. As others have said, the taste is not effected at all. Enjoy your whiskey now. Every pour I get to enjoy is a toast to my health and well being, a celebration of life. I have always felt that’s reason enough to not keep the good stuff locked away forever 

[Special Reserve]

For open bottles

 

Now, my wife 1 = too many; this board = there is no upper limit.

[Saul_cooperstein]

I’ve got 30+ American whiskey open plus another 10 or so of scotch. Probably 180-200 bottles of whiskey still sealed and waiting to go...but most have 2+ so maybe 70-80 options to open...what’s that around 1/3 open which feels ok. 

[Whiskey Lullaby]

10 hours ago, Surtur said:

I have about 50 bottles open. I cannot restrain myself when I get a new bottle or a bottle I haven’t had in a long time, I need to drink it that night. I usually have about two 1oz pours a night, mostly every night so I enjoy the variety. I have always been a firm believer in drinking, enjoying, and sharing your whiskey. The only bottles I have sealed are of course extra bottles in the bunker, and I have started a separate bunker for my sons when they are grown so they can taste what bourbon used to taste like in certain periods of time, for better or worse. Bottles like my Four Roses 2017 LE, I took a few pours from it then put it back in my sealed cabinet for safe keeping. When a bottle gets about halfway down, I speed up the process and drink it much more often, but before then I often won’t touch certain bottles for months at a time. As others have said, the taste is not effected at all. Enjoy your whiskey now. Every pour I get to enjoy is a toast to my health and well being, a celebration of life. I have always felt that’s reason enough to not keep the good stuff locked away forever 

Love your post. Great stuff. Especially the part about keeping bottles for your sons, that’s a great idea. I have a 14 month old son and he is already reaching for Daddy’s Manhattan’s. Admittedly though, it would be hard to just leave a bottle unopened for so long!

I definitely have grown to really enjoy just sipping on a small dram in the evening. It’s a great way to close out the day. 

[JoeTerp]

On 1/31/2018 at 12:01 PM, Whiskey Lullaby said:

Love your post. Great stuff. Especially the part about keeping bottles for your sons, that’s a great idea. I have a 14 month old son and he is already reaching for Daddy’s Manhattan’s. Admittedly though, it would be hard to just leave a bottle unopened for so long!

I definitely have grown to really enjoy just sipping on a small dram in the evening. It’s a great way to close out the day. 

 

I can definitely relate.  My 3.5 year old and 22 month old took turns reaching for my beer last night.

[Kane]

I realized two things about the way I drink:

 

1- Too many open bottles, and I tend to round-robin between them and not go back to any given bottle in a long long time. As a result I find it difficult to create a mental fingerprint of what I drink, sometimes I finish an entire bottle and after a week can't even remember what it tasted like.

 

2- Too few, and after pouring the same thing for the 5th day in a row it starts to get old. Finishing bottles becomes a goal in itself -- so that you can open the next one. It stops being fun.

 

After many years of careful experimentation in an unquestionably scientific framework, I determined the magic number of open bottles for me to be around 10-15 (including non-bourbons). Just one data point from a guy with no drinking buddies to share with.

[CardsandBourbon]

I have I think 78 bottles right now and probably 60 of them are open.  The ones that aren't are multiples or something that I'm saving for a special occasion.  Bourbon is made to drink.  How can you drink it if the bottle isn't open is my theory.

[Richnimrod]

2 hours ago, CardsandBourbon said:

Bourbon is made to drink.  How can you drink it if the bottle isn't open is my theory.

(Emphasis is mine)  You are wise beyond your years young grasshopper.    Stay thirsty my friend (to poach a line from some commercial I saw once).   HA!