Black Velvet

[Texas Lizard]

Yes the drinking kind...Was at the base doing monthly shopping over the weekend...Stopped by the package store to replace a dry bottle of Black Velvet...The store clerk got the bottle for me and ran it and the beer to my truck...I did not want to break anything...When I got home I was checking the bottle  and discovered that it was plastic...When did they start putting booze in plastic bottles??? Am I behind the times....

 

Texas Lizard

[Alpo]

I asked that question a year or so back. Actually, not so much WHEN but WHY. It was pints and half pints and miniatures that I'd see, at the side of the road. Never a REAL bottle - a fifth or a quart.

 

The consensus on the wire was it was a WEIGHT thing. Glass is heavy, so putting it in plastic saved fuel when shipping

 

[Major Crimes]

Down here Black Velvet is Guiness and Champagne mixed together.

 

Just dont try and stand up to quick if you are drinking it sitting down

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

The Black Velvet is a beer cocktail made from a stout and white, sparkling wine, traditionally Champagne. The drink was first created by the bartender of Brooks's Club in London in 1861, to mourn the death of Prince Albert, Queen Victoria's Prince Consort.

[Yul Lose]

4 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

Yes the drinking kind...Was at the base doing monthly shopping over the weekend...Stopped by the package store to replace a dry bottle of Black Velvet...The store clerk got the bottle for me and ran it and the beer to my truck...I did not want to break anything...When I got home I was checking the bottle  and discovered that it was plastic...When did they start putting booze in plastic bottles??? Am I behind the times....

 

Texas Lizard

TL, they didn’t want you to cut yourself if you fell over when you were drinking out of the bottle. 

[Texas Lizard]

29 minutes ago, Yul Lose said:

TL, they didn’t want you to cut yourself if you fell over when you were drinking out of the bottle. 

Thanks I will remember that...

 

Texas Lizard

[Grumpy Old Man]

I'm a bourbon drinker. Bench Mark is a cheap good bourbon. Fifths are glass, big bottles are plastic.

[Too Tall Bob]

I am glad this turned out to be about whiskey!  I was afraid to look because I was pretty sure you were going on about your girl friend’s new dress!

[DocWard]

15 hours ago, Major Crimes said:

Down here Black Velvet is Guiness and Champagne mixed together.

 

Just dont try and stand up to quick if you are drinking it sitting down

 

Well, that's a new one on me.

[Sawhorse Kid]

19 hours ago, Texas Lizard said:

...When did they start putting booze in plastic bottles??? Am I behind the times....

 

Texas Lizard

 

The booze industry has been using plastic for over 25 years.

[Father Kit Cool Gun Garth]

Re-reading Posts I may have overlooked,

I couldn't resist this one especially based on the content.

 

 

                             ELVIS on "Black Velvet"

[Charlie Harley, #14153]

5 minutes ago, Father Kit Cool Gun Garth said:

Re-reading Posts I may have overlooked,

I couldn't resist this one especially based on the content.

 

 

                             ELVIS on "Black Velvet"

My first thought too. 

[J. Mark Flint #31954 LIFE]

Cheaper is not better!  Give me glass or give me . . .  (death seems a little extreme) . . .  a paper cut

[Marshal Hangtree]

Here's my kind of black velvet . . .

 

 

[Smoken D]

Black Velvet was the name of one of our black whores in Kansas City. Nice gal and got her turned around.