BAM #1 brought to forefront that I am definitely deficient in the hip flask department.

Please recommend me a decent one at a decent price (links would be good).

For single malts, obviously....

Alpkit ones are good.

https://www.alpkit.com/products/tippla

One with a captive screw-top is useful. Full bottles wrapped in sleeping bag and mat go in the bar roll

Some pretty 'hip' flasks here. See what I did there?
https://www.zazzle.co.uk/funky+flasks

Waste of money and weight. Small tonic bottles do the job, good re-use and are effectively free once you've drunk the G&T

£3 ish Mountain Warehouse sale.

^what he said, I got a great trespass one for £3 in the sale

Whatever you choose make sure you lash it down well, at the end of October I camped on dunkery beacon and was horrified to find the small bottle of Jura superstition had escaped from my bag and was lost on exmoor.
It was a horrific experience which I would not wish on anyone.

Please drink irresponsibly

nice stainless ones in GO OUTDOORS for £4.

i have a Surly one and a Singletrack one.

When will the "Bear Bones hipflask … proudly made by a bloke in a barn, high in the Cambrian Mountains" be coming out?

MuddyPete wrote:When will the "Bear Bones hipflask … proudly made by a bloke in a barn, high in the Cambrian Mountains" be coming out?

I'd buy one.

I have a lightweight Nalgene one somewhere but started using a 1 litre bladder with as much rum in as I fancied, it's the lightest option and gets smaller and easier to pack the more you drink

I've got a 350mm bladder/bottle thing that I got from Trespass I think. As said already, collapses to nothing once empty.

Thanks for all the responses.

It's reminded me the main reason I don't have one is that the metal ones are heavy/cumbersome/pricey(hey, I'm Aberdonian!).... and I'm concerned a plastic bottle/whatever would taint the whisky...

Guess I'll try a plastic bottle until such times I happen upon a flask that takes my fancy.

I've used a small Platypus.

Using it for water later, there was a (not unpleasant) taint to the water.

Just over 20p each. I've used them for port, brandy and whiskey. Been fine. Unless you're a connoisseur or have an exceptionally sensitive pallet I doubt you'd notice any taint to whiskey, itself being pretty pokey (cask strength being better bang-for-Buck for the bike packer ) unless you out something really peaty in followed by a much less-so one.

I might look at getting some BB flasks produced. As a non-drinker can those who partake and who may consider buying such an item, tell me what type of size would be preferable.

Thank you.

Bearbonesnorm wrote:I might look at getting some BB flasks produced. As a non-drinker can those who partake and who may consider buying such an item, tell me what type of size would be preferable.

Thank you.

See my earlier post ^^^

I've already got quite a big one (Stanley one, 230ml)

Something around 150-180ml (5-6oz) would be perfect

I've used Stuart's plastic fuel bottles before now. The plastic taints a little but I make sure to mark them and use them for whisky only. Once they've had whiskey in doesn't seem to got any worse.

We'll I picked up a set of bottles as per cheeky monkeys recommendation... (Hey, I've a bottle of Bombay Saph lurking at the back of a cupboard somewhere so the contents will come in useful...).

From my investigations of metal hippers, the volumetric capacity usually ranges between 150-180 ml....

Bearbonesnorm wrote:can those who partake and who may consider buying such an item, tell me what type of size would be preferable.

I've got one of these Stanley ones (smaller than Ben's):

http://www.stanley-pmi.com/store/stanle ... .325304100

It's great. If I bought another I'd probably get another smallish one, as then I could take two different whiskeys. They'd pack easier than a bigger flask too.

I think it's just under 3 measures, which is as much whiskey as I ever want to drink before spending a night in a bivvy bag. Having said that, artiefufkin had a belter of a flask on the winter bivvy. It was quite a bit bigger then mine. Tall but slim.

The point about caps that are permanently attached is a good one.

+1 for Bearbones flasks, and maybe a bit smaller than your average flask for bikepacking friendliness (size + weight + need to not wake up with a sore heid).

Surprised no-one's mentioned this: http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/ahe ... -411-p.asp

The metal one that Graham saw was some generic eBay jobby. The cap has started going dicky so have just upgraded to a 330ml nalgene flask. I do drink spirits with mixers.
Would be interested in a smaller BB one though, for the neat stuff! Think 150/ 180ml are the figures being banded about.