# What do you put in your flask? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 22, 2009, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911 "2009-02-22T02:59:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Clivas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dfb087/32.png) [@Clivas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clivas)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/21 "2009-02-23T00:10:35Z")
Yukon Jack ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/22 "2009-02-23T00:12:00Z")
I have two. In one I carry Jameson, and in the other, I carry either Damiana or Celtic Crossing. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/23 "2009-02-23T00:17:01Z")
Brandy for me. That way if I ever run into somebody with cherries and someone else with vermouth, we can have manhattans aplenty. Or, you know, I can just drink the brandy. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/24 "2009-02-23T00:20:17Z")
Maker’s Mark usually. Sometimes Buffalo Trace. I own a bunch of flasks. A couple are Russian ([1](http://www.russianmade.com/flask1.jpg), [2](http://www.russianmade.com/OrderofGPWWII.html)) A couple are just [generic](http://www.executivegiftshoppe.com/fk508.html) 8 oz. with keeper tops. One is a freebie from [Gallo](http://liquorshoppingdeals.com/home/2007/11/27/eye-catching-and-spectacular-packaging-for-this-e-j-vsop-brandy-gift-set-with-flask/). All of them get used. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/25 "2009-02-23T01:03:30Z")
Early Times or Jim Beam, which both mix well with cola, which is always for sale at concerts, games or movies… To save $$$ while bar hopping, Patron or even Jose C. is a good bet, since its always easy to get a lemon wedge or two from a bartender on your way out the door. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/26 "2009-02-23T01:10:48Z")
I’ve always :dubious: at flasks. I mean, that just ain’t enough alcohol to make a dent in reality. Give me [one of these](http://www.esflamenco.com/product/en72238175.html) filled with JD, baby! Joe ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/27 "2009-02-23T01:12:38Z")
Drambuie is the current resident of mine. ---
**Author:** ![neutron\_star](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/51bf81/32.png) [@neutron\_star](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/neutron_star)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/28 "2009-02-23T01:13:11Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Phoenix Down. You can never be too safe. > > Hostile Dialect, > Hostile Dialect, Narcissist ahahaha To answer the question, I quit drinking in 2007, but before then, 100 proof vodka. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/29 "2009-02-23T01:15:54Z")
My flask o’ brandy is just for enjoying the occasional sip or two, not to get me plastered. I’m pretty sure a litre of brandy would put me in the hospital, if not kill me outright. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/30 "2009-02-23T01:30:35Z")
Sailor Jerry’s Spiced Rum (and a casual raise of the flask to the OP) ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/31 "2009-02-23T06:53:07Z")
“Grape soda” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/32 "2009-02-23T07:03:36Z")
I haven’t been down to my vast, secret laboratory lately. Must I use a [flask](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laboratory_flask), or will a beaker do? ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/33 "2009-02-23T07:48:42Z")
I don’t generally keep my flask full, but do use it for special occasions. Bushmills for light hearted nips, or Smirnoff Blue for serious business. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 9:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/34 "2009-02-23T09:21:28Z")
Goldschlager or gin. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/35 "2009-02-23T11:15:16Z")
Wow; quite a variety. Wouldn’t it be neat if we were all on a bus, and it broke down somewhere, and to pass the time we all spontaneously pulled out flasks? I think I started thinking about this because a flask was featured on _Battlestar Galactica_, which inspired me to get out my own flask, which now needs refilling. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 11:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/36 "2009-02-23T11:22:52Z")
> [@Baldwin](#): > > I think I started thinking about this because a flask was featured on _Battlestar Galactica_, which inspired me to get out my own flask, which now needs refilling. Fill it with vermouth, we’ll make an evening of it. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hostile\_Dialect](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e495f1/32.png) [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/37 "2009-02-23T13:18:02Z")
Hrmm…just how common is this flask-carrying thing, I wonder? I would have thought that flasks were just for alcoholics–the only two people I’ve ever met who had them were serious alkies–but I’m hearing some self-reported flask use from people here who I consider to be responsible drinkers, and the rest are just people I don’t know anything about, drinking-wise,\* so the overwhelming effect of this thread on me is to make me question my assumptions about the damn things. And also, to make me kinda want to go out and get one, even though I hardly ever drink these days! Bombay Sapphire for those long study breaks? That _would_ make nights at the library slaving over a hot sentence tree go a little faster, wouldn’t it? 😉 - Plus one recovering alcoholic, but I don’t know if that’s my Big Reveal or if it’s just the Law of Averages at work. ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/38 "2009-02-23T13:19:56Z")
> [@mariposalabrown](#): > > Jagermeister. You will make friends when you can instantly pull out shots of Jager. You forgot “puke” between “friends” and “when”. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/39 "2009-02-23T13:29:03Z")
> [@Hostile\_Dialect](#): > > Hrmm…just how common is this flask-carrying thing, I wonder? > > I would have thought that flasks were just for alcoholics–the only two people I’ve ever met who had them were serious alkies–but I’m hearing some self-reported flask use from people here who I consider to be responsible drinkers, and the rest are just people I don’t know anything about, drinking-wise,\* so the overwhelming effect of this thread on me is to make me question my assumptions about the damn things. > > And also, to make me kinda want to go out and get one, even though I hardly ever drink these days! Bombay Sapphire for those long study breaks? That _would_ make nights at the library slaving over a hot sentence tree go a little faster, wouldn’t it? 😉 > > - Plus one recovering alcoholic, but I don’t know if that’s my Big Reveal or if it’s just the Law of Averages at work. Eh, I only rarely use mine, and I think a lot of folks like that. The only times I’ve used mine was taking it camping or an outdoor event or maybe a BYOB situation. Most of your hip pocket flasks only hold enough for like three drinks, anyway. So yeah, I could see how an alkie would use one to maintain, as well, but they probably need more than that to keep going. ---
**Author:** ![HolyFreakingMoly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7ba0ec/32.png) [@HolyFreakingMoly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HolyFreakingMoly)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2009, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-put-in-your-flask/486911/40 "2009-02-23T13:34:46Z")
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