because we need another one. with pictures.
how can i know her?
i don’t know wtf is going on here but i like it
post information about how to buy kegs of rum here!
should i buy this shirt:
?
still with the crap no-label whalers!
wtf is sharecroppers? i’ve never seen that one before
and Malibu, I C U HIDING:)
silly. that’s a picture from last summer... sharecroppers is an interloping bottle of wine. and the whalers is long gone by now. as is the one barrel, sadly. that malibu may still be hiding there in the back.
catalog of yr shelf now plz
except that bottle of mt. gay is significantly emptier now.
lol at the light cruzan. was david over again?
what’s the one on the left?
no, i bought it. it’s okay when you want something super light. you never even tried it! you don’t know!
on the left is saint james.
i had completely forgotten about the barbancourt. there’s another almost empty bottle of goslings back there, and that fucking sailor jerry’s. and the poor little wee bottle of malibu still: the neglected little sister of the rum cupboard.
and jim beam? wtf?
you will be amused to know that i had to stand on a chair to take that picture.
this is the rum i am appreciating tonight
in a jar even! be still my heart
this is what’s on for monday: i still haven’t washed the dishes so it’s a jar again tonight for me. good thing i have lots of jars.
i bought a tough bottle of rum last night, can’t even remember the name, left it at the party. but! i got good and drunk until the soda ran out and I introduced this girl Mikaela to the pleasure of rum rickeys and she got sauced. the headache today is worth it.
i don’t know how i missed that link to the havana rum museum till now. according to Lonely Planet Cuba, they also give excellent dancing lessons at the museum. let’s go!
(children get in free. this is amusing me all the livelong.)
it’s payday so i bought 4 bottles of rum and a carton of cigarettes. what a happy happy thing.
and since i know you’re going to ask, i will save you the trouble and just tell you:
mt. gay, goslings, flor de cana 7 year, cockspur, benson & hedges
the latter i will save for your homecoming.
haha, the latter rum, that is. i’m smoking them b&h whether you come home or not, brother.
ha
L O V E
i’ve been drinking DER GUTE POTT lately. cheap but decent
but the 40%, not the 54
oop
thumbs up to the good pott
gute pott + good pot = good times
(or would equal good times, if i had both)
i’ve sure managed to appreciate the rum this week. pick of the week has to be cockspur. mmm good.
Matusalem you are a treat.
Never underestimate the goodness of Cruzan Black Strap.
otm
now how you feel about the cruzan light? good, huh?
begrudgingly good
barbancourt 15 year HERE WE COME
what would you say your ten essentioa rums are, if you had to construct a liquor cabinet? (i’ll write mine now but not post until you do)
great question!
Cruzan Black Strap
Mt. Gay Eclipse
Flor de Cana 7 year
Goslings Black Seal
Cruzan Light
Cockspur 12
Ron Matsusalem Clasico
One Barrel
Mt. Gay Extra Old
Ron Matsusalem Gran Reserva
essentioa essentioa essentioa
when did you learn portugese?!
eu ensiná-lo-ei que todo que eu sei sobre a vida e como viver ele traduzindo no português em todas as vezes. você é uma senhora especial. mantenha-o acima!
...as to live it translating the Portuguese in all the times.
lol!
10 cane
cockspur
cruzan dark
mt. gay regular
flor de cane
one barrel (the cause of it all)
matusalem
barbancourt
goslings (essential even if i’m a little sick of it)
pyrat
rm, i apppreciat ou.
barbancourt 15—STRONG
strong and surprisingly wrong
mt gay u r a treat
los jergins están ELM
hai guyz, tonight it’s gin, but I can has rum?
lxy that blackstrap wz nom nom nom
u has rum with us any time. yes, blackstrap = yum
AND fill your cupboard with rum. you will not regret.
therez mt. gay in there and some myers’s dark, but it din’t know what to mix it with? Milk? can u mix w Roses Lime? Basil mojitos are crap :(
milk. that’s uhh thread material if i ever (luv u jaq:)
i’m adding Old Mill to my list. it is custom made on the Spanish Main, so....
much rum was appreciated last night. along with much wine, some beer and a bottle of seagrams. no one drank the lemon hart poison, but the mumbling dum dum malibu is finally gone!
this evening i was surprised to find that there was still a good amount of old mill left in the cupboard. why did this not get drunk at our party? did we put it away?
regardless, i was happy to find it, and was / am / will continue to be happy to consume some of it.
it was even out, and no one went for it
i’m up for appreciating some rum tomorrow
ME TOO!
we got lots of the cockspur left. but not the 12, unfortunately.
thx black strap. nice to meet you again.
from Peter’s Rum Pages.
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this is peter:
he looks as pirate-y as I anticipated :)
i haven’t been appreciating the pyrat much. it’s gone now though
i found this in the cupboard and am trying it now. 151
woah.
how was the lamb’s?
it gave me a headache like 151 does. i didn’t have much though
time to check out the friday harbor liquor store. will report back
i got the last bottle of cockspur!
there’s mt. gay regular and a couple of cruzans—not the light—and that’s about it. no special shelf.
also: 10 cane. no gosling’s (don’t care)
yum cockspur!
it may be the best one of all.
http://www.bokaseattle.com/news_news.html
This month BOKA renames Happy Hour. Five lanes of pain equal five lane sof gain for those who aren’t ready to endure the commute. Enjoy the signature cocktail the Traffic Jam, a delectable combination of Bacardi Rum, fresh muddled raspberries(red for stop), and mint ( green for go); with a citrus sugar rim (yellow...you get the idea) for $5 for the duration of Rush Hour, which, during the month of August will extend to 8pm. Plenty of time for the traffic to ease up.
Rush Hour: Monday—Friday from 3pm—8pm
we should go... bar menu (half price during happy / rush hour) sounds good.
me: matsusalem
you: ?
way too much cockspur
and some of that whiskey
thanks for buying that brazilian stuff, jergy, even though i don’t think i can drink it. maybe we can make syrup out of it?
oh yeah, i took that ‘what drink are you’ quiz that someone posted on the rum poll thread. apparently i am
***Sex On the Beach***
When comes to drinking, you like it to go down smooth.
You really don’t like the taste of alcohol—just its effect on you.
So, you’re proud to get drunk on fruity, girly drinks.
Because once you’re liquored up, the fun begins!
hahaha.
so not true you like tough drinks
do u rate
always liked the label and bottle shape but never tried it
lol screech
haven’t tried that appleton, no, but have had another variety (cheaper); it was okay.
what’s up with canadian rum?!
how do you drink your rum, am0n?
with coke (boring)
what about
not boring if it’s what you like though, eh? if i liked coke i’d probably drink rum and coke, too. instead, it’s soda-lime for me.
(tru confession: when i first drank rum i drank it with TAB!!!1 LOLOLOLLLOOOOOLLLL!!! probably why i hated rum for long time??!)
(uhh, that makes me seem v v old, doesn’t it. but i guess i am, so....)
i think we had a different kind of pusser’s before, but not that variety. jergins, do you recall? i think the name is off-putting.
have you had this one?
oh shit that looks good. i like the dark rums
british navy = ghey
when i first drank rum i drank it with TAB!!!
EW
I KNOW!
do you like the goslings black seal?
we had pusser’s once i can’t remember how it tasted; i just laughed about the name
okay, we’re going to try that appleton tonight.
no. i need to buy gosling. is pyrat good?
that pyrat isn’t quite as dark as it looks in the picture, but it’s a pretty good one.
the packaging cannot be denied, though. i’m a sucker for the swank.
i wasn’t too taken with the appleton last night. it was fine but not great. come to think of it, the cockspur didn’t really do anything for me either. what is going on?
jesus, am i going to have to start drinking bourbon full time??? makes me feel weird just to say it.
there will be some serious rum appreciation soon, give what is in the cupboard all of a sudden:
flor de cana 18 *never tried!*
depaz *never tried!*
cockspur 12
flor de cana 4
thanks, jergins and pearl specialty shop!
the depaz is beautifully packaged
but we did not have much appreciation for the taste
this, on the other hand
oh my god
what is it
oic flor de cana 18
co-worker on flor de cana 18: “it tastes like a baby”
(a good thing)
according to her
co-workers drank half the bottle of 5 year
are you drinking fdc 18 at work? i hate you.
(a good thing)
ah, forbidden rum. exciting! must be cuban.
crown hill store has a pyrat for $235!
(aged 23 years, i think)
i think there’s a review linked upthread that talks about that rum and compares it to a $60 bottle that sounds better
also, santa teresa now costs $90. when we had it in may it was $38. wtf!
i’m drinking a mt. gay that i’ve never had before. can’t really tell what its deal is. amber but (maybe) not aged? i don’t know. i’m confused by it.
i also bought a bottle of fdc7 and
so yeah i don’t really like that mt. gay. switched to the fdc7. much better.
not to liveblog my night or anything
was it mt. gay extra old? i saw that tonite, shorter fatter bottle. went with gosling’s black again
no, not extra old. it’s the regular bottle, and the label says mt. gay barbados sugar cane rum. beige with a yellow map. i can’t find it anywhere online, even on the mt. gay website.
mt gaie
sandbox meet-up, ybor city, march 26–29, 2009!
it’s the regular shaped bottle, i should say.
for clarification purposes, what i consider regular mt. gay is the mt. gay eclipse. white label, yellow map.
this one is called mt. gay barbados sugar cane rum. it was $20, shelved with the fancy boozes. it’s gotta be their bottom shelf variety, all sugar and edges.
wiki: Mount Gay produces a “Pure Sugar Cane Rum” occasionally known outside of the US market as “Sugar Cane Brandy”.
!
Mount Gay Sugar Cane Brandy, a careful blend of specially selected rums of age up to seven years, is a fine product whose link with the sugar cane of Barbados is proudly reflected in its character. Not to be confused with generic ‘brandy’, the product is entirely rum. The name is a legacy from times when the product contained such a high proportion of double distillate that its organoleptic characteristics were much like those of brandy. In some markets, because of legal restrictions, the name ‘Sugar Cane Rum’ is used in place of the original name ‘Sugar Cane Brandy’. (From the Mount Gay Rum website)
No, you didn’t misread. The above title claims this review is for Mount Gay Sugar Cane Rum, but the label calls it brandy. I just learned the hard way that they’re one and the same. It seems that in some states Mount Gay is required by law to label their brandy as rum—either way, it ain’t rum, and it certainly ain’t good. I used it to remove a nasty clog from my drain, and it didn’t even do a very good job of that. The flavor was vaguely reminiscent of shoe leather soaked in vinegar. If you think that sounds appealing, give it a shot. Otherwise, I’d stay clear.
wtf kind of law is that, that’s lame
http://www.bilgemunky.com/reviews/rum/
lol this guy doesn’t like eclipse or cruzan dark either
haha i guess i didn’t try very hard. maybe we could make sidecars with that rum-brandy.
yeah, totally stupid law. if it had been labeled properly i wouldn’t have bought it.
i have work to do and i’m swigging rum straight from the bottle
― eman, Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:48 PM
fuck fucking yes
i <3 u, amon tell what rum plz. for america, i mean.
goslings lol
omg you are bad ass for america! kudos!!
flor de cana, always
fuck fucking yes
― omg we are awesome (jergins), Tuesday, November 4, 2008 8:49 PM
in my singlehanded effort to prop up the economy, i ordered five rums. the carribean by way of illinois. here’s what:
La Favorite Rhum Agricole Vieux Rum
El Dorado Demerara 5 Year Old Rum
Rockley Still Classic 13 Year Old Rum
Ron Cubaney Rum
Plantation Rum Barbados 1995 1995
tried 3 of 5 so far:
cubaney might be ass
rattan one might be ok
el dorado is good as expected
el dorado 5 year = yum
$17.99!!
plus shipping but still
lol lxy “what kind of perfume do i wear? flor de cana”
dab that shit on ur wrists and ud have the drunks calling in notime
why waste on my arms when i can have it in my mouth
ilx quoted out of context
yi delete delete delete!
flor de cana 4—?
they’re all great for drinking.
i’ve only tried fdc 5 as perfume though.
portland’s pearl specialty purchases:
el dorado 15
cockspur 12
this el dorado A+ again
i have earthshattering rum news
when you first open a bottle and take a whiff, you may not get an accurate representation of what the rum’s like
i guess it’s like wine. (fuck wine connoisseurs). let it breathe some and then smell, you get a better idea of what it’s going to be like
starting from a really light one and then working my way darker to the blackstrap now makes me think that u get drunk in a different way vs. staying with the same thing all night
this sounds like a fun progression, but i never acquired an appreciation for rum.
yeah, me too except mojitos
but i will appreciate RUM vicariously
i’m not trying to talk anyone into anything, but if you were to try one please try flor de cane 5 year with soda water, fresh and bubbly, a nice juicy lime, and ice. one shot. measure it out. make no quick decisions. pass no judgement until the end of the first. by the start of the second you won’t regre it
starting from a really light one and then working my way darker to the blackstrap now makes me think that i will feel like shit the whole next day
xp he’s right, you know
may be coming around.
what’s up barbancourt. you’re my lady
she is a beauty
yea barbancourt gis
there was a show on history channel the other day called ‘rum runners, bootleggers & moonshiners“
u know j i only like the barbancourt ok—the pyrat pistol was fantastic for sippin tho
word up
i always thought i hated barbancourt. something about the higher proof throws off the careful calibration of drinks.
it’s worked this weekend though. the local liquor store is shit!
this guy got encased in rum!
worth putting black on white:
santa teresa rum 75 bux canadian
90 here the last time i checked so
no like 54 or so
nah, look:
oh yeah!
the $300 pyrat 23 year is for sale at the crown hill store
fdc7 delivers every time
ad bacdrop for world basbeball classic:
TRY THE RUMS OF PUERTO RICO
ok
i would do that
i thoyght amon posted about vybz’s rum but i’m not seeing it. here are more pix.it’s kind of a looker.
^bad typing.
from kira:
hahaha funny story.
so brian got a job at this new restaurant in town and for some reason, they had to train him to serve alcohol even though he is too young. so i guess he was talking to his coworkers and the bartender about drinks and they were talking about drinks with rum and brian said something about a rum ricky. but i guess no one had any idea what he was talking about and the bartender said he had never heard of that drink before... haha so brian felt really stupid i guess, so he asked me about it and i told him that, yes indeed, it is a real drink. but i thought that was really funny and weird....
fdc7, i love you
ready..................
me too, get home, you
dang girl i gotta go east to go west first though
wend yer way, s’alright. just hope there’s some left for you.
jk
fuckin anniversario
been thinking i should swear less, but keep having reasons to swear, such asnow:
FUCK YES ANIVERSARIO
the old grandad of the rum world?
yes! same store also had matusalem and cruzan black strap, need to go back
wer
the old grandad of __________
I only just learned when I got basil that old grandad is from basil hayden’s grandson, in honor of his grandfather’s bourbon legacy.