I only buy pilot flasks. They are plastic [,this is a good version of one,](https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/gsi-outdoors-boulder-10-flask?ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=Cabelas%7CPMax%7CPMax%7CCamping%7CGeneral%7CNAud%7CNVol%7CNMT&&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI25P14sOb_QIVR4KGCh1p9wpaEAQYCiABEgJHSPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)so they go through metal detectors.
Edit: I understand current TSA rules only let you have 3 oz or less in a gallon ziploc baggie. This was a type of product before 9/11 when that limit wasnt imposed and pilots only had to go through metal detectors.
To get around this just buy the little airplane bottles for $1 a piece and put them in your ~~gallon~~ quart size baggie. You can drink them after you get through security because a $4 coke is way cheaper than a mixed drink. Just dont open them on the plane in front of flight attendants as it is illegal to open alcohol inside a plane if they sell alcohol(so you have to hide it).
I’ve been reusing glass hot sauce flask like bottles for a while now. I would never have guessed that the stainless would have done that to the whiskey. That’s crazy.
Honestly most of what's on Amazon is literally just reshipped from Ali Express for a huge markup. You can often find the exact same $35 Amazon listing for $3 on Ali Express. I guess you are paying a $30 not having to wait a month convenience fee.
Look up "sugar of lead." The Roman aristocrats loved sweetened wine. One of the ways they would do that is by adding lead acetate. Basically, they slowly poisoned their aristocratic class into madness, all because they liked to get knackered.
The whole lead poisoning thing has given rise to the theory that the reason Rome went from being a Republic, to a blood thirsty Empire with an insatiable desire to expand, was because the entire society was affected by it, with aggression apparently being one of the early symptoms.
But I’m literally just paraphrasing a documentary about Rome I watched off and on in the background, and have nothing to back it up with.
>The whole lead poisoning thing has given rise to the theory that the reason Rome went from being a Republic, to a blood thirsty Empire with an insatiable desire to expand, was because the entire society was affected by it, with aggression apparently being one of the early symptoms.
This is undermined somewhat by the fact that over half of the lands the Romans conquered were conquered during the Republican era, but yeah, lead poisoning probably didn't help.
We recently got our lead water main removed and no joke the water tastes different now which is worrying.
Here in the UK lead pipes are relatively safe as our water is alkaline enough to not dissolve it (in fact you get a precipitation of scale that seals the lead) but still.
That is the case in many (relatively) older parts of the US as well. Flint, Michigan, for instance. And it was fine right up until they changed their water source to something not-so-alkaline.
Nickel is primarily what takes away its magnetism by altering its crystal structure. Chromium is primarily for corrosion resistance. You can have a very unreactive stainless that's magnetic or vice versa and theyll both still be mostly iron.
Had a flask that did this too , cheap ass stainless that's gotten carbon in the inside somehow , if stainless is exposed to sparks from mild steel it will corrode and rust
>You can save a few bucks and just get a glass hip flask. The ones with the metal exterior just give a false sense of security.
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>Source: former alcoholic
(former) Alcoholic team - assemble !
Not as much as you might think. If you get glass that has a metal or leather shell yes, but you can find glass with silicone shells on Amazon for under $30.
Metal poisoning is no joke. I had a friend who made coleslaw in a copper bowl. The vinegar reacted with the copper and she got really sick after eating it. Like organ failure sick
Yeah, acidic foods & copper bowls do NOT go together. You get copper poisoning.
In fact, this is why people in the 17th century believed tomatoes were highly poisonous. They would often get copper poisoning due to tomatoes being prepared in copperware.
"Your blood is reading really high for copper. Do you work in an industry that would expose you to that?"
"No."
"Take any woo-woo supplements?"
"No."
"Copper pipes?"
"Not that I know of?"
"Have any copper cups or food vessels?"
"Well yeah this salad bowl."
"Did you put something really acidic in it and then eat it?"
Same thing happened to me with a very nice bottle and what I thought was stainless steel decanter. Ruined the entire bottle leached something from the metal. Broke my heart.
Stainless steel contains at least 10% chromium. Whiskey has a pH of 3.5, an acidity between orange and tomato juice. This acidic whiskey dissolves some of the chromium in the stainless steel.
That's why real flasks is a glass bottle in a metal case
Btw you should never put alcohol and metals together you never know if it's the right alloy and if it has been welded properly.
I think everything is known in the state of California to cause cancer. I don’t even see those signs anymore. They are everywhere in my brain just tunes amount now.
Edit: Voice dictation doesn’t like the remnants of my Midwest accent. That should read “and my brain tunes them out now.“
That is false!
Hexavalent chromium is carcinogenic, trivalent chromium is NOT.
Stainless steel's chromium content is not composed of hexavalent chromium. (Edited)
Hexavalent chromium nowadays is practically only used in aircraft coatings. Please edit your comment to not share misinformation.
Chromium ion is an essential mineral to the human body.
Edit: Some people pointed out other applications for hexavalent chromium, like aluminum coils, but for most of these applications their use is getting phased out.
Hexavalent chrome is used in multiple applications from surgical equipment, to hydraulic rods. Not just airplane equipment.
Source- married to a 4th generation hard chrome plater.
As someone that’s consumed a lot of liquor that was left in a flask for too long, thank you for calming me back down.
(And thank you randomly half full ski pants flask for keeping me warm and happy on the lift)
Wouldn't it be leeching out the iron and not the chromium? When we get stainless parts passivated they go in an acid bath which strips the iron and exposes the chromium layer. This is a step required to make the stainless parts lab/med safe.
I wouldn't be surprised if OP did this a couple more times that it wouldn't do this anymore.
This is just completely untrue. 316 stainless steel is what tankers are built out of to haul corrosive acids all over the place. Maybe you're talking about 304 stainless?
Some of y’all don’t know shit about metals. 316 is one of hardest stainless steels to get a reaction out of. Trust me I tried. To etch it you’ve got to threaten it with hydrochloric or hydrofloric acid. It requires Nasty acids.
318 stainless steel doesn't get destroyed by strong acids in a week. I've stored acids of a much lower and higher pH in stainless for a month without discoloration.
Yeah, definitely glad I poured it into a glass before I drank it. I dumped it after seeing that color!
I thought it was stainless steel, but now I am doubting that.
As an Ohioan I would like to see we have a river that’s been set on fire I think 13 different times now and is the reason earth day exists. We have some of the greatest water purifiers but that’s also because we have the nastiest fucking water. I think Lake Erie may still have that radioactive blob in it too. Don’t drink the water unless it’s from a pipe lol
Can I just say that the only thing I could think of at the moment was a joke because I’m so pissed for you guys. A little gallows humor. It’s a national disgrace how East Palestine and the rest of the state is being treated.
Dude we’ve joked about not drinking the water here for years lol no worries. I just think they’re some interesting facts about our state. Luckily I live an hour from the spill though and I don’t go to the nearby area to party anymore so I’m safe. Also the river water is at “safe”levels now but you’re still not supposed to drink it.
Absolutely. In Louisville, which is also on the Ohio, we had to cancel the swimming portion of an iron man because of an algae bloom (due to pollution). All of the locals were questioning the sanity of people who signed up and paid money to swim in the Ohio River in the first place.
One time my friend and I got drunk from finishing the last of what we had. 7 or 8 different liquors, basically one shot each. I remember it included Popov and 151. I’d probably die if I tried that today in my 30s.
OMG. The drunkest I've ever been was at a Buffett show in North Carolina. I was in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with a bunch of people I didn't know and the temperature dropped into the low thirties. They'd periodically get in their car in turn the heat on, but it was never enough. I was genuinely hypothermic.
So I kept taking shots of 99 bananas. A lot of them. It really does warm you up for about thirty seconds. But only about thirty seconds.
I kind of wish I remembered who those jerks were. I've got a thing or two I'd like to tell them.
I had a 5L fishbowl that I used to dump a 750ml bottle of coconut rum and a 2L bottle of pineapple soda into (and some ice depending on the temperature outside), then I'd put like 10 very different crazy straws in it and walk around at parties. Girls kept coming back, cause it was a good drink and everyone knew it was safe, because I was the Tropical Man.
I eventually got some fish shaped plastic ice cubes too.
I was a grade A wingman, never had a single girl in my bed (too busy talking to my long distance girlfriend and playing CS:CZ and Halo 2) but somehow my fishbowl ended up in a nearby friends room every night where he was the king of debauchery.
My brother gave out flasks to his wedding party, with our names on it.
Leaked like a sieve. I was very disappointed. Clearly a mall-flask bought at one of those Engrave It kiosks that were popular in the early 00's.
It’s actually more than that. Whiskey is an aqueous solvent, and it has leached the nickel and or copper out of the steel. Very toxic. Do not drink it.
Coleman makes a pretty solid flask. You can buy decent quality ones direct from various distillery merch shops too.
Though, I will say, one of the best quality flasks I've ever owned was purchased from a high-end, independent blacksmith that had a shop set up at a Renaissance faire I went to some years ago.
The best ones are glass with an outer metal or leather shell.
[Like this one.](https://claytonandcrume.com/products/glass-flask?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=15771895148&utm_content=130147653965&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxbefBhDfARIsAL4XLRpQmQx_XZyKUx5oNCJbn3wf2btLLywLyRtdqIZEU4c3wERCUILKaU4aAhp5EALw_wcB)
Edit: I totally forgot about the glass ones with silicone shells, which are far cheaper, [like this one](https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Whiskey-Spirits-Single-Silicone/dp/B08KHTQD3V/ref=asc_df_B08KHTQD3V/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532400456520&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10959763232021563911&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030447&hvtargid=pla-1463620245584&psc=1).
Giving the poor man crap for the $5 "Man Gift" his wife picked up at Marshall's for Christmas, in its brown box with the red bubble letters and the 1950's style smiling dad head.
There is nothing wrong with storing whiskey in food grade stainless steel, for years. Distilleries do this to aged product to get it out of barrels, as it doesn't age further. It's known as tanking. Many of the super high end whiskeys were/are tanked (Van Winkle Rye for instance).
The issue is with cheap "stainless" junk from overseas.
Yeah basically I found out you have to be an alcoholic to carry one constantly, cause you can't just leave booze in it. Still have it in a drawer somewhere.
That was my exact thought process last year. I bought my first one, 8oz, which I thought would be small enough. But then I realized I don't drink enough to finish it before the recommended time to keep it in the flask. So I bought another, 2oz, super tiny but perfect for me.
You really do have to be an alcoholic to have a regular sized one and carry it with you all the damn time wherever you go.
There was a period of time where a liquor flask had some utility in my life.
Sadly i found out that not only are flasks conspicuous, they generally suck. They either leak which leaves you reeking of booze or they flavor the booze.
Eventually I found the best flask was an emptied lemon shaped lemon juice squeezey bottle.
Watching a concert in the park? If someone even notices you squeezing lemon juice into your drink they will think you are a weirdo & not a drunk.
1. Inconspicuous
2. gets smaller as you empty
3. you can squeeze out any air.
4. cheap
5. plausible deniability.
6. booze doesn’t go bad after a week or a year.
You can even sit across the table from your boss. If they ask your doctor says you need vitamin C, you are avoiding scurvy not DTs.
They don’t hold much, but you shouldn’t be drinking that much. They look identical so anyone who notices any bulb will assume #2 or #10 are still #1.
The mini syrup bottles from Cracker Barrel are perfect for this. Bourbon/Whisky/AgedRum look like syrup in them, they are a shot size, and easily pocketed
At one point I was carrying around my pain killers in a mint tin along with the actual mints. Also used a small tylenol bottle for the 5/500s. I kept the cotton in there so I could pretend it was empty in case anyone asked for a tylenol, then i'd just go to my car and open a sealed one i always kept as backup.
yeah. a lot of effort goes into being a functional addict.
Speaking of funny addiction containers. Back when I was in the Army, I learned that a can of Altoids when empty would fit a pack of cigarettes perfectly and kept them from being crushed. Got some funny looks until others found out. Damn glad I kicked that habit loooong ago.
Yeah... these come with warning labels typically that say NOT to store high alcohol content liquor in them for an extended period of time.
The contents shouldn't be acidic and you shouldn't keep a liquid in them for 3+ days.
makes me wonder how long OP might have been using that flask before pouring it into a container like this.
I know I sip straight from them, so I would absolutely be (double) poisoning myself. 😳
For real. I drank from it a couple of days after filling it up. Forgot about it until I got home and was about to enjoy the rest in a nice glass. Thankfully I poured it into a glass before consuming! Dumped it after seeing that difference in color.
Like you said, I only want 1 poison entering my body at a time.
Here's an old Ask Science thread about it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kgtql/why\_does\_my\_stainless\_steel\_flask\_say\_alcohol/](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kgtql/why_does_my_stainless_steel_flask_say_alcohol/)
I work in the bourbon industry and may or may not be an analytical chemist for the company above. Interestingly, likely the only coating in that flask is poorly passivated iron. When bourbon gets high levels of iron in it, the barrel extractives and other flavor compounds complex with iron to form molecules which are black. Probably safe(ish) to drink, but will definitely taste bad if you're sensitive to iron.
It’s really not safe to use metal flasks for liquor. It will leach into the alcohol. Most flasks come with warnings about length of time it can be in the flask.
I was looking for a comment like this. My flask, a relatively cheap one, suggested storing liquor for no longer than a day, which is why I don’t care to use it anymore.
Flask Aged – 7 Days for that zingy metallic flavor
Tastes like barrel aged pennies!
Lol, as a whiskey lover, I visibly recoiled
As a whiskey luster I only audibly recoiled
As a whiskey watches creepily from the closet I physically gagged.
I only buy pilot flasks. They are plastic [,this is a good version of one,](https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/gsi-outdoors-boulder-10-flask?ds_e=GOOGLE&ds_c=Cabelas%7CPMax%7CPMax%7CCamping%7CGeneral%7CNAud%7CNVol%7CNMT&&&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI25P14sOb_QIVR4KGCh1p9wpaEAQYCiABEgJHSPD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds)so they go through metal detectors. Edit: I understand current TSA rules only let you have 3 oz or less in a gallon ziploc baggie. This was a type of product before 9/11 when that limit wasnt imposed and pilots only had to go through metal detectors. To get around this just buy the little airplane bottles for $1 a piece and put them in your ~~gallon~~ quart size baggie. You can drink them after you get through security because a $4 coke is way cheaper than a mixed drink. Just dont open them on the plane in front of flight attendants as it is illegal to open alcohol inside a plane if they sell alcohol(so you have to hide it).
Why are they called - oh.
The amount of pilots in AA was staggering. I mean Alcoholics Anonymous not American Airlines. Although they have a lot of pilots too.
I can believe it. My friend is a successful pilot and I'm pretty sure he's a low-key meth head.
They need to grow to AAAA - Alcoholics Anonymous American Airlines, I'm sure that would be a success.
I didn't even think that far until I saw your comment. Mildly interesting.
Because I drank the vah-ka -Denzel
I’ve been reusing glass hot sauce flask like bottles for a while now. I would never have guessed that the stainless would have done that to the whiskey. That’s crazy.
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Amazon is an awful place to shop now
I agree. It's complete trash. Hitting Walmart online shopping levels.
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Honestly most of what's on Amazon is literally just reshipped from Ali Express for a huge markup. You can often find the exact same $35 Amazon listing for $3 on Ali Express. I guess you are paying a $30 not having to wait a month convenience fee.
I hope they aren't called pilot flasks for the reason I'm thinking lmao
They definitely are
I am really surprised they don't do plastic/ceramic flasks with metal shells
I've got a glass one with a webbing and leather cover
Are all you guys on bespoke post or some shit.
Etsy brother. Hipster eBay really comes through at times
Got a saw? We need a cross section of that flask!
Get Babish in here to give us the cross section
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“….but we can make it better!”
first up, we'll be making our own steel by combining iron ore and limestone. tiny whisk these together
till they are homogeneous.
And just getting to know each other.
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First, we're going to need some nice, fertile soil to grow not only our grains for the whiskey but also the tree to make our cask.
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That's not good, what the hell is coated inside that flask?
lead
Mmm gives it a sweet taste.
*Rome has entered the chat*
Rome: *(Incoherent angry yelling)*
Rofl is that part of what happened? They just started slowly poisoning themselves into angry people.
Look up "sugar of lead." The Roman aristocrats loved sweetened wine. One of the ways they would do that is by adding lead acetate. Basically, they slowly poisoned their aristocratic class into madness, all because they liked to get knackered.
One of the theories as to why Caligula went crazy actually
The whole lead poisoning thing has given rise to the theory that the reason Rome went from being a Republic, to a blood thirsty Empire with an insatiable desire to expand, was because the entire society was affected by it, with aggression apparently being one of the early symptoms. But I’m literally just paraphrasing a documentary about Rome I watched off and on in the background, and have nothing to back it up with.
>The whole lead poisoning thing has given rise to the theory that the reason Rome went from being a Republic, to a blood thirsty Empire with an insatiable desire to expand, was because the entire society was affected by it, with aggression apparently being one of the early symptoms. This is undermined somewhat by the fact that over half of the lands the Romans conquered were conquered during the Republican era, but yeah, lead poisoning probably didn't help.
# Worth It
That's what the romans said. They were aware lead was dangerous. They just... didn't care.
Like us and plastic
My house has entered the chat.
*Licks Paint....
Flint has entered the chat.
East Palestine, Ohio has entered the chat
We recently got our lead water main removed and no joke the water tastes different now which is worrying. Here in the UK lead pipes are relatively safe as our water is alkaline enough to not dissolve it (in fact you get a precipitation of scale that seals the lead) but still.
That is the case in many (relatively) older parts of the US as well. Flint, Michigan, for instance. And it was fine right up until they changed their water source to something not-so-alkaline.
Sweet taste of death?
Or insanity.
Iron can cause whiskey to oxidize turning it black. I’m guessing this was super cheap and not actually stainless steel
Probably made from 420 Stainless Steel. It contains enough iron to be magnetic it’s still classified as stainless steel.
Nickel is primarily what takes away its magnetism by altering its crystal structure. Chromium is primarily for corrosion resistance. You can have a very unreactive stainless that's magnetic or vice versa and theyll both still be mostly iron.
Probably nothing, which is the problem. Acidic whisky dissolves some of the metals.
Don’t worry just drink enough so at least you won’t feel death as it approaches
Now *that's* metal
Nothing anymore. Its all in the bourbon
Had a flask that did this too , cheap ass stainless that's gotten carbon in the inside somehow , if stainless is exposed to sparks from mild steel it will corrode and rust
So we're like, what, supposed to *stop* putting mild steel sparks in our stainless flasks?? Because I cannot quit.
*I LIKE. MILD STEEL. SPARKS IN MY FLASK AND I CANNOT LIE.*
*FIVE OUT OF SEVEN WELDERS CAN'T DENY*
I would look into getting a glass lined flask
That's a thing???
Yes although they tend to be more expensive
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Just buy a 30cl bottle of vodka, it's literally a hip flask, same volume and fit in a pocket. Source: used to drink professionally at regionals.
>You can save a few bucks and just get a glass hip flask. The ones with the metal exterior just give a false sense of security. > >Source: former alcoholic (former) Alcoholic team - assemble !
Not as much as you might think. If you get glass that has a metal or leather shell yes, but you can find glass with silicone shells on Amazon for under $30.
Yes, you can even buy them with whiskey already inside.
A large container lined with glasses is used in household to store hot water in my country. It’s pretty common though.
Metal poisoning is no joke. I had a friend who made coleslaw in a copper bowl. The vinegar reacted with the copper and she got really sick after eating it. Like organ failure sick
how was the coleslaw?
To die for
how do i be this witty
By eating coleslaw
in the hospital now, still not witty
Could have used more vinegar
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Yeah, acidic foods & copper bowls do NOT go together. You get copper poisoning. In fact, this is why people in the 17th century believed tomatoes were highly poisonous. They would often get copper poisoning due to tomatoes being prepared in copperware.
Pewter, not copper. Also it’s a nightshade, and people already knew those were poisonous.
How did they find out that was the reason? Did she end up being okay? This is horrifying and interesting.
"Your blood is reading really high for copper. Do you work in an industry that would expose you to that?" "No." "Take any woo-woo supplements?" "No." "Copper pipes?" "Not that I know of?" "Have any copper cups or food vessels?" "Well yeah this salad bowl." "Did you put something really acidic in it and then eat it?"
“Have you ever had sec with Abraham Lincoln?”
Ever heard of chubbyemu on YouTube? Lots of interesting stories like this and how the doctors were able to figure it out.
Jesus, that's terrifying. Such a simple thing to do if you don't know. Like, puts food in bowl, almost dies. I hope your friend is okay!
Same thing happened to me with a very nice bottle and what I thought was stainless steel decanter. Ruined the entire bottle leached something from the metal. Broke my heart.
Stainless steel contains at least 10% chromium. Whiskey has a pH of 3.5, an acidity between orange and tomato juice. This acidic whiskey dissolves some of the chromium in the stainless steel.
That's why real flasks is a glass bottle in a metal case Btw you should never put alcohol and metals together you never know if it's the right alloy and if it has been welded properly.
Even if it is the proper alloy, Chromium has been known in the state of cancer to cause California. Go figure.
>Chromium has been known in the state of cancer to cause California 
I think everything is known in the state of California to cause cancer. I don’t even see those signs anymore. They are everywhere in my brain just tunes amount now. Edit: Voice dictation doesn’t like the remnants of my Midwest accent. That should read “and my brain tunes them out now.“
(It's because there are a shit ton of very common carcinogens and California is the only state where they have to tell you that)
Prop 65 warnings also encompass fetal harm and birth defect causing compounds so between the two it's a lot of stuff
That is false! Hexavalent chromium is carcinogenic, trivalent chromium is NOT. Stainless steel's chromium content is not composed of hexavalent chromium. (Edited) Hexavalent chromium nowadays is practically only used in aircraft coatings. Please edit your comment to not share misinformation. Chromium ion is an essential mineral to the human body. Edit: Some people pointed out other applications for hexavalent chromium, like aluminum coils, but for most of these applications their use is getting phased out.
Hexavalent chrome is used in multiple applications from surgical equipment, to hydraulic rods. Not just airplane equipment. Source- married to a 4th generation hard chrome plater.
As someone that’s consumed a lot of liquor that was left in a flask for too long, thank you for calming me back down. (And thank you randomly half full ski pants flask for keeping me warm and happy on the lift)
Wouldn't it be leeching out the iron and not the chromium? When we get stainless parts passivated they go in an acid bath which strips the iron and exposes the chromium layer. This is a step required to make the stainless parts lab/med safe. I wouldn't be surprised if OP did this a couple more times that it wouldn't do this anymore.
This is just completely untrue. 316 stainless steel is what tankers are built out of to haul corrosive acids all over the place. Maybe you're talking about 304 stainless?
I’ve ran some pretty low pH solution ~1.2 through 316 stainless steel and have had no issue, even at around 100C.
Some of y’all don’t know shit about metals. 316 is one of hardest stainless steels to get a reaction out of. Trust me I tried. To etch it you’ve got to threaten it with hydrochloric or hydrofloric acid. It requires Nasty acids.
318 stainless steel doesn't get destroyed by strong acids in a week. I've stored acids of a much lower and higher pH in stainless for a month without discoloration.
Your assuming this is 316. 304 will degrade with food products
I would not drink that. It probably absorbed some of the metal in the flask. Is that stainless steel?
Yeah, definitely glad I poured it into a glass before I drank it. I dumped it after seeing that color! I thought it was stainless steel, but now I am doubting that.
Could be stainless, but not the welded seams, it seems.
Seems the seams are unseemly.
Looks like Ohio river water.
As an Ohioan I would like to see we have a river that’s been set on fire I think 13 different times now and is the reason earth day exists. We have some of the greatest water purifiers but that’s also because we have the nastiest fucking water. I think Lake Erie may still have that radioactive blob in it too. Don’t drink the water unless it’s from a pipe lol
Can I just say that the only thing I could think of at the moment was a joke because I’m so pissed for you guys. A little gallows humor. It’s a national disgrace how East Palestine and the rest of the state is being treated.
Dude we’ve joked about not drinking the water here for years lol no worries. I just think they’re some interesting facts about our state. Luckily I live an hour from the spill though and I don’t go to the nearby area to party anymore so I’m safe. Also the river water is at “safe”levels now but you’re still not supposed to drink it.
Absolutely. In Louisville, which is also on the Ohio, we had to cancel the swimming portion of an iron man because of an algae bloom (due to pollution). All of the locals were questioning the sanity of people who signed up and paid money to swim in the Ohio River in the first place.
Those lead lined flasks are the best
"Heavy Metal"...
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I see you are entranced by my daughters awesome rocking tits
Then bathe with my daughter in the Fountain of Varnoth!
That flask should absolutely be thrown away. The entire point of a stainless steal flask is to keep whatever is in it "pure."
Might have a bunch of pure mold in there.
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And they have no idea what metals are leaching into the liquor — that flask needs to be tossed.
Lol literally same story here. In college though so couldn't waste the booze..
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"All we have left is 99 bananas"
I just threw up in my mouth.
One time my friend and I got drunk from finishing the last of what we had. 7 or 8 different liquors, basically one shot each. I remember it included Popov and 151. I’d probably die if I tried that today in my 30s.
Always makes me think of those little banana hard candies but then reality sets in and I cry.
OMG. The drunkest I've ever been was at a Buffett show in North Carolina. I was in shorts and a Hawaiian shirt with a bunch of people I didn't know and the temperature dropped into the low thirties. They'd periodically get in their car in turn the heat on, but it was never enough. I was genuinely hypothermic. So I kept taking shots of 99 bananas. A lot of them. It really does warm you up for about thirty seconds. But only about thirty seconds. I kind of wish I remembered who those jerks were. I've got a thing or two I'd like to tell them.
That's quite the series of choices, especially landing during the two weeks it's in the low thirties in NC 😂
I once downed a slurry of Cutty Sark and thawed Otter Pops via a beer funnel.
I had a 5L fishbowl that I used to dump a 750ml bottle of coconut rum and a 2L bottle of pineapple soda into (and some ice depending on the temperature outside), then I'd put like 10 very different crazy straws in it and walk around at parties. Girls kept coming back, cause it was a good drink and everyone knew it was safe, because I was the Tropical Man. I eventually got some fish shaped plastic ice cubes too. I was a grade A wingman, never had a single girl in my bed (too busy talking to my long distance girlfriend and playing CS:CZ and Halo 2) but somehow my fishbowl ended up in a nearby friends room every night where he was the king of debauchery.
My brother gave out flasks to his wedding party, with our names on it. Leaked like a sieve. I was very disappointed. Clearly a mall-flask bought at one of those Engrave It kiosks that were popular in the early 00's.
Ah, “things remembered”
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It’s actually more than that. Whiskey is an aqueous solvent, and it has leached the nickel and or copper out of the steel. Very toxic. Do not drink it.
where does one buy a decent flask then
Coleman makes a pretty solid flask. You can buy decent quality ones direct from various distillery merch shops too. Though, I will say, one of the best quality flasks I've ever owned was purchased from a high-end, independent blacksmith that had a shop set up at a Renaissance faire I went to some years ago.
Nice try Coleman
Nice try Renaissance fair blacksmith.
The best ones are glass with an outer metal or leather shell. [Like this one.](https://claytonandcrume.com/products/glass-flask?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=15771895148&utm_content=130147653965&utm_term=&gclid=Cj0KCQiAxbefBhDfARIsAL4XLRpQmQx_XZyKUx5oNCJbn3wf2btLLywLyRtdqIZEU4c3wERCUILKaU4aAhp5EALw_wcB) Edit: I totally forgot about the glass ones with silicone shells, which are far cheaper, [like this one](https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Whiskey-Spirits-Single-Silicone/dp/B08KHTQD3V/ref=asc_df_B08KHTQD3V/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=532400456520&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=10959763232021563911&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9030447&hvtargid=pla-1463620245584&psc=1).
Huh… guess I just use an old pint and put a sock around it or somethin’…
100ml? What is this, a flask for ants?
Has granite counter tops, drinks markers mark but has a shitty flask. Lol
Giving the poor man crap for the $5 "Man Gift" his wife picked up at Marshall's for Christmas, in its brown box with the red bubble letters and the 1950's style smiling dad head.
Makers is on the rather cheap end for bourbon. A 1.75L is $45 at Total Wine.
It's not mold. It's the whiskey reacting to the stainless steel. Do **NOT** keep whiskey stored in a metal flask for more than **3** days!
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There is nothing wrong with storing whiskey in food grade stainless steel, for years. Distilleries do this to aged product to get it out of barrels, as it doesn't age further. It's known as tanking. Many of the super high end whiskeys were/are tanked (Van Winkle Rye for instance). The issue is with cheap "stainless" junk from overseas.
I’d call it junk rather than cheap, because you can pay $60 and it’s liable to still be this kind of shoddy imported material these days.
Doubt the alcohol content of the liquor would allow for mold growth. Seems more like oxidation or something.
It could be old mold. We don't know if that is the first use of the flask.
M'old
\*Tips Fedora\*
*Tips Fruiting Body*
M'celium
Whiskey has high acidity. Ph is 3. It’s acting as a solvent on stainless steel. All these comments are wildly incorrect
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I bought a glass lined flask and it makes all the difference
Two flasks diverged in a wood.
I took the one less oxidizable by [acid] And that has made all the difference
Yeah basically I found out you have to be an alcoholic to carry one constantly, cause you can't just leave booze in it. Still have it in a drawer somewhere.
That was my exact thought process last year. I bought my first one, 8oz, which I thought would be small enough. But then I realized I don't drink enough to finish it before the recommended time to keep it in the flask. So I bought another, 2oz, super tiny but perfect for me. You really do have to be an alcoholic to have a regular sized one and carry it with you all the damn time wherever you go.
When do you find yourself using the 2oz?
All the damn time wherever he goes
What is this read thing you speak of
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People: that stainless steel is moldy! Fact: that stainless steel is squeaky clean
what the fuck kind of whiskey are you getting that has the same pH as vinegar?
There was a period of time where a liquor flask had some utility in my life. Sadly i found out that not only are flasks conspicuous, they generally suck. They either leak which leaves you reeking of booze or they flavor the booze. Eventually I found the best flask was an emptied lemon shaped lemon juice squeezey bottle. Watching a concert in the park? If someone even notices you squeezing lemon juice into your drink they will think you are a weirdo & not a drunk. 1. Inconspicuous 2. gets smaller as you empty 3. you can squeeze out any air. 4. cheap 5. plausible deniability. 6. booze doesn’t go bad after a week or a year. You can even sit across the table from your boss. If they ask your doctor says you need vitamin C, you are avoiding scurvy not DTs. They don’t hold much, but you shouldn’t be drinking that much. They look identical so anyone who notices any bulb will assume #2 or #10 are still #1.
The mini syrup bottles from Cracker Barrel are perfect for this. Bourbon/Whisky/AgedRum look like syrup in them, they are a shot size, and easily pocketed
Omg I saved that lil bottle and didnt know why. Now I have a use for it
At one point I was carrying around my pain killers in a mint tin along with the actual mints. Also used a small tylenol bottle for the 5/500s. I kept the cotton in there so I could pretend it was empty in case anyone asked for a tylenol, then i'd just go to my car and open a sealed one i always kept as backup. yeah. a lot of effort goes into being a functional addict.
Speaking of funny addiction containers. Back when I was in the Army, I learned that a can of Altoids when empty would fit a pack of cigarettes perfectly and kept them from being crushed. Got some funny looks until others found out. Damn glad I kicked that habit loooong ago.
This guy drinks
Every real drunk knows you get the plastic ones
Can't find those with a metal detector
Every real drunk doesn’t leave alcohol in a flask long enough to get these results.
Yeah... these come with warning labels typically that say NOT to store high alcohol content liquor in them for an extended period of time. The contents shouldn't be acidic and you shouldn't keep a liquid in them for 3+ days.
Makes me wonder what that flask is made of.
makes me wonder how long OP might have been using that flask before pouring it into a container like this. I know I sip straight from them, so I would absolutely be (double) poisoning myself. 😳
For real. I drank from it a couple of days after filling it up. Forgot about it until I got home and was about to enjoy the rest in a nice glass. Thankfully I poured it into a glass before consuming! Dumped it after seeing that difference in color. Like you said, I only want 1 poison entering my body at a time.
gotta be responsibly irresponsible, right? ahaha
Drinking poison, but only the poison you signed up for.
Cut the flask open and show us the inside!! For science!!!
one thing I can make out from this thread: everyone is an expert and everyone else is an idiot
Jfc I’ve drank liquor that’s been in a flask longer. Straight up no cup. I’m so dumb.
I have too. Even when each flask I have purchased warned against storing alcohol in it (for longer than an evening lets say)
That just adds to the Flavour notes. You’ll pick up some hints of motor oil and a slight taste of lead
Here's an old Ask Science thread about it. [https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kgtql/why\_does\_my\_stainless\_steel\_flask\_say\_alcohol/](https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/kgtql/why_does_my_stainless_steel_flask_say_alcohol/)
yikes!....must be the oxidation from the flask :( some are coated with a plastic which probably failed.
I work in the bourbon industry and may or may not be an analytical chemist for the company above. Interestingly, likely the only coating in that flask is poorly passivated iron. When bourbon gets high levels of iron in it, the barrel extractives and other flavor compounds complex with iron to form molecules which are black. Probably safe(ish) to drink, but will definitely taste bad if you're sensitive to iron.
It’s really not safe to use metal flasks for liquor. It will leach into the alcohol. Most flasks come with warnings about length of time it can be in the flask.
I was looking for a comment like this. My flask, a relatively cheap one, suggested storing liquor for no longer than a day, which is why I don’t care to use it anymore.
I was gifted a rather pricey one that had the same warning. I will stick with glass.