[Closed] I think i might be a pirate

It's just one of those things....If you are,you aaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrre. 😀

so what else is good?

Friggin' in the riggin' has a lot going for it, but don't try being keel-hauled or walking the plank..

We just finished a bottle of Kraken. It was crackin'. Good call.

Im no aficionado of rum, so excuse my luddism, but Morgans Spiced RUm has been my spirit of choice for the last year now. Cant quite bring myself to plash out on Kraken yet though.

Sodomy & the Lash 😯

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You need some of these;

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I have some other rums from Guadeloupe, but it's odd old vintages that I can't find pictures of. Inherited from a special man, and along with his memory, very much loved. I take a snifter on very rare occasions.

You don't have to be a pirate to drink rum. My uncle was a long term navy man & he had one of the last Copper rum jugs to be used in the Royal Navy. He was a Fleet Chief Petty Officer so was often irate, but not a pirate. 🙄

Depends on who's Navy
😉

Appleton

That Mount Gay stuff is fab!!!!!!!

I buy my dad a bottle birthday and Christmas and he loves it. It is super smooth. And, apparently, the oldest rum makers on earth.

As per other thread, Mount Gay XO seconded. Having Bajan connections is the best thing in the world for cheap XO...

I think I might be too.

got a taste for rum in india,called Old Monk 100 rupees a bottle, very nice it is too...

Kryton, you lucky chap/chapess!

Barbados is a fine, fine country. I love that island! Wonderful people, and rightly proud of where they are!

You'll soon be needing one of these.

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all good ideas to be going on with, off on holiday in a few days so I feel a purchase to tide me over for the week away may be coming on.

Yep CFH (chap btw). I love the island. Wife is UK born, but the in-laws and of course extended family are Bajans. There always someone going back an forth with MG rum in their suitcase*

Looking to holiday again next year, before jnr starts school.....

*allegedly, I couldn't prove that HMRC.... 🙂

Whenever I am in Barbados I try to neck as much Mount Gay as I can

Which coast? If I had all the money in the world, I'd buy Heron Bay from the Bamfords. Utterly beautiful place!

I plan on going back in May. I'd offer you my allowance, but I want it for myself! 😉

Usually west coast of course. We usually try and share a villa around Holetown area with the inlaws, although in 2010, Mrs Kryton found some apartments here http://www.beachviewbarbados.com/FAQ/

...which were fantastic.

CaptainFlashheart - Member
I'd offer you my allowance, but I want it for myself!

The year we got married we (again, alledgedly) may have returned with 11 litres of the stuff - between two of us...

Well when i was rich it was always sandy lane, but the last few years I've been hitting up Bathsheba on the east coast - possibly my favorite place on earth!

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West Coast is where it's at, as any fule kno!

Rum my fav

Morgan spiced and coke aka as shipwreck very nice

OVD is also very nice

Pussers is good too as is Woods

I havent tried Kraken yet but find Sailor Jerry is too Vanillary but still nice

Bacardi 151 is loony juice, I cant belive they sell it for the thick end of £70

as you can tell I do like Rum if any of you live in or near bristol check out the RUMMER

---@ East side til i die!

My personal fav pirate juice is River's 151 from Grenada. Which I was led to believe was the oldest rum distillery still operating in the Caribbean It's an unforgiving beverage... 🙂

Also a fan of the Cuban offerings

well, after some extensive testing this evening, I can safely say Kraken wins over Sailor Jerry, much smoother.....and there's a picture of an Octopus on it, so, you know, that helps somehow

Octopus on it, so, you know, that helps somehow

why? does it have better customer services than Sailor Jerry?

I hope this isn't degenerating into rum-fuelled octopron...

Hmmn,
I don't know much about whisk(e)y, hate bourbon, gin is for old ladies and vodka is for children.

Rum, however, is fantastic and this:
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is the only one you need.

After the British Navy adopted its daily ration of a half pint of 160 proof rum, called a 'tot', the naval rum connection spread, and from the 1730's a thriving export trade developed.

Wood's 100 is one such rum, originating from what was known as British Guyana in South America.

It has been produced in the same way for over 150 years and acquired by Wm Grant & Sons in October 2002.

Distilled at The Diamond Distillery, Guyana. It is produced using a combination of spirit made in both pot and continuous stills, from the finest sugar cane grown along the banks of the River Demerara.

It is matured for 1.5 to 3 years in oak before being blended. The sugar cane produced by this enormous life-giving river makes the sweetest sugar cane in the Caribbean.

At 57% ABV, It's one of the highest ABV dark rum on the market - yet appreciated for its smooth, mellow taste.

It has gained a reputation amongst bar-tenders as 'the real deal' - an essential cocktail ingredient and respected as a high quality, niche brand amongst the drinks cognoscenti.

Well, that might well be a load of a old pony but it's bloody marvellous stuff.

Highly recommended.

Sorry RS, but Wood's is dog rough, i was in merchant navy for eight years, drunk plenty of liquor,that Wood's stuff is a con IMHO

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Got my first bottle for my 18th.

I like it - perhaps I'm just not very sophisticated.
I thought it was SUPPOSED to taste like that. 🙂

Will have to try all the others then. 😀

After being re-educated on what makes a good rum by a gay Spaniard (don't ask!), I can confirm that Wood's is indeed dog-rough, and most of the others mentioned up there are bloody lovely

Ah, looks like an enjoyable but expensive re-education session is on the cards then.

I'll just start from the the top of the thread and work my way down.