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Backpacking Booze Options
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Jim Beam Rye is the best bang for your buck. Mix it with anything and you will have to give up your Man card. |
Mike Lane wrote:Oban. Anything else is amatuer hour If you want to get crazy get some shroomsI like the way think. I wish I could afford to think that way myself :P |
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Wilsons "That's All" whiskey for when the bank-account is hurting, and any scotch for when it's not. I agree with Simon, mixes are a waste of time. Especially in winter...the burning sensation is quite nice. |
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Sounds disgusting, but there's actually such a thing as a backcountry beer concentrate: backpackinglight.com/cgi-bi… |
Ben B. wrote:Mixes? Leave that shit in the club, son.Another vote for Yukon. My 'licker store quit carrying it so I'm boycotting them. Love my 'Jack in the backcountry. |
Mike Lane wrote:Oban. Anything else is amatuer hour If you want to get crazy get some shrooms+1 Mike, you're totally invited to the next Veduavoo Scotch weekend. |
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Just get some alcohol powder if you're trying to travel light. Everything tastes better when camping, right? |
Peter Pitocchi wrote:LaphroaigAh yes, the preferred drink of my favorite aplinist/art aficionado/assassin Dr. Jonathan Hemlock |
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The ultimate backpacking booze solution: Backpack to a place where "little streams of alcohol come a tricklin' down the rocks" |
johnL wrote: Oh really?If you can point me to the alcohol stream there, I would thank you kindly. |
Peter Pitocchi wrote:LaphroaigIsn't the fact you're breathing in campfire smoke make the flavors in Laphroaig redundant? It already tastes like you're drinking water that pooled in the firepit from the night before. In a good way, though. |
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Gotta love that smokey peaty Islay. Learned about Laphroaig in a Scotch bar in Edinburgh. Once on a multiday hike in NC with the fam came upon a newly tapped keg of Heineken behind a tree at a campsite. Like some kind of dream. |
Kevin Landolt wrote:Boxes of wine...yeah! and when you're done with the bag, it can be blown up for use as a pillow |
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While there's something smooth and relaxing about sipping your favorite scotch/bourbon/whiskey as the sun sets, nothing replaces a good margarita at the end of a hard day. Brittany Griffith laid this recipe on me before she went over to the dark side and started drinking PBR. Poor lass... |
 Pack the PBR in !!! Did you see the video I posted on Kor-Ingalls Route . . . There was more then bivy gear in that haul bag. |
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One note is that Cuervo Gold is vile - Cuervo Tradicional or Sauza Hornitos is so much better for not much more money. |
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If you're carrying all that other crap on your back, you might as well pack something good. We used to haul in a flask of gin, a little plastic bottle of vermouth and some olives. Nothing finer than rolling out the ensolite and kicking lakeside with a martini in hand after a good day bagging a peak. |
Andrew Gram wrote:One note is that Cuervo Gold is vile.How do you think they make it that color? Hint: It aint gold. I think again here, as with JohL's thread about disposing of approach shoes, we need to just develop the intercontinental ballistic alcohol and shoe delivering device (IBASDD). |
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I agree with all who said that a high-quality bourbon, Scotch or tequila can be sipped 'neat' and requires no mixers, thus giving you your highest alcohol/weight ratio. And a high-quality stainless steel water bottle like a Klean Kanteen is ideal for carrying spirits into the backcountry. |
