Ever Toss a New Bottle of Liquor?

[Attjack]

I have done that with wine but for bourbon I probably would have kept it to cook with.

[Attjack]

It's not getting super terrible reviews on Distiller.

[Bkhuna]

No accounting for taste.

[barelfly]

I think it’s a decent bottle. At least the BIB bottle is.

[Michael_in_TX]

When I was 21, I got really curious about this tequila thing. So I went down to specs and got a bottle of their cheapest tequila. I don't remember what it was, but it was like $6 or something silly like that. I lasted two sips.

[WayneT]

I think Richard Chrz had to ‘dispose’ of that terrible Porto I sent him. How was I to know it was tawny.

[Anton32828]

I've bought or been gifted some bad bourbon, but managed to "save" it by drowning it in vermouth & Campari to make drinkable Boulevardiers. I'm embarrassed to say I tasted some Kentucky brandy at the distillery, bought a bottle, and then realized it had a note of battery acid in the finish once I got it home. That went down the drain!

[lemayp]

Was given a bottle of blavod years ago. One sip and spit it out. I was still young enough to have parties where anything would get drank. The next day, half the bottle went down the drain. The guy that drank it left a nice stain in the carpet when it came back up..

[WayneT]

I was recently gifted some moonshine from Wilkes County, NC, where moonshiners birthed NASCAR. I’m more than certain I will be regifting or disposing of it soon.

[Oak Smoke]

I was given a bottle of Johnny Walker black last year. I’m sure I’ve had the black before, but this bottle is so smokey and peaty I can’t drink it. I keep hoping someone will see it in the bar and say how much they like it. It will be instantly theirs.

[texastweeter]

Mix it with ginger beer

[BBQandLove]

I bought a mini recently… First time, eh, ok. Then a month later I was bored and tried it again, and liked it. Third time I fell in love.

[Huskee]

Dang you could've shipped it to me, I'd pay shipping. I like Walcott. Twice I've bought bourbon that was terrible to me. One had a snake wrapped around the bottle, it was awful, and another was an expensive Bird Dog, before they went bottom-shelf. I kept them for mixers for guests who don't know bourbon, or bourbon cocktails for that matter. To me everything has a use, I don't dump.

The snake bottle bourbon is American Barrels Bourbon. The one I bought was terrible to me, not saying they still are or all of their expressions are. This was prob 4 years ago.

[texastweeter]

Jack Daniel's Sinatra select. Gave it to an employee.

[bmillin]

Circa 1989, booze in plastic 1.75 bottles for my bachelor party. The idea Long Island Iced Tea, ended up with something more like paint thinner.

[jfmorris]

I've tossed or given away odd bottles of liquor left at my house after a party before. If I had bad bourbon that I didn't like neat, I would give it away or use it in a cocktail probably.

I have bought plenty of beers over the years that I thought were truly awful, and poured down the drain. I've even brewed a few kegs of beer myself that I wasn't happy with, and I would dump that keg of beer down the driveway. That's only happened twice I can think of though - once was an infected/contaminated beer that tasted like crap, and got crappier with time. The other was a smoked porter, which sounded good on paper, but too much smoked malt can be a bad thing (phenolics - in this case, so overwhelming that the beer tasted like that smell you get from a freshly opened plastic bandaid).

[Bad Hat BBQ]

If gifted bad stuff (Whisky or wine) I will use it in cooking

Fairly selective whin I buy it.

[luvthemstillers]

Black Velvet Canadian Whisky. It's a cheap bottle and it tasted like a cheap bottle. Down the drain it went.

[PNWsmoke]

Use it for party's or guest's.