I inherited a hip-shaped flask from my father with his initials engraved on it. To my knowledge he never used it, but he held onto it anyway. When I received it, I filled it with brandy and its sitting here on my desk. It's a slow early Sunday morning, so I thought I'd throw a fun question out...

Other than the obvious, does a hip flask of brandy have any valid uses in a bug-out bag? How effective would it be at wound sterilization compared to a tube of cream in your FAK? Barter goods?

Didn't old movies always show the old geezer, stuck in the middle of an emergency, or more likely, waiting for the end of the disaster to present itself, pulling out his flask and passing it around to share a drink?