Whisky Peripherals

I'd love to have a decommissioned cask to plunk down as a table between the armchairs in front of my fireplace. An always-generous family member tried to track one down for me last Christmas but found that, if you're in the US at least, the only semi-affordable ones are those festooned with stamps and whatnot from American bourbon distilleries and the like. Not surprising. If I were to actually have that, I'd want it from a Scottish distillery, or maybe Irish. So that remains a deep, dark, unrealized dream.

I keep a select few old tins from favorite departed bottles on display in little nooks in my basement bar. I used to keep ALL OF THEM SINCE FOREVER but that got a little ridiculous.

I think "actual bottles" is probably a popular answer to this question. I only keep my open bottles out on the bar though. Everything in the stash is, well, stashed.

The only other thing I have is a tourist map of Islay that I brought back a few years ago, framed on a wall with some other "old maps and flags" kinda stuff. I really regret cutting it, though. It was too big for any frame I had on hand, so I just cut it down to the two most interesting areas and split it across two frames. I should have just found a big new frame. And now I search eBay for it and find nada.