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Pyrat XO Reserve Rum

Brian told me about this stuff a while ago. When we were at Discount Liquor the other week we saw it on sale for 16 bucks, and thus picked it up. It is from the same people who brought us Patron Tequila so expectations were high and we were not dissappointed.

After tasting a few high quality rums, this one included. I have decided that I think I’d much rather become a connoisseur of rum than whiskey. I prefer the taste, and the price difference is no joke. Not that I don’t appreciate a nice whiskey but I’d rather pay 20-30 bucks for a really nice rum than 50-200 bucks for a really nice whiskey.

All that aside, this is a really great tasting rum. It’s almost got a butterschotch flavour to it. Other than the cork breaking while trying to open it and having to filter the cork chunks back out of it I really enjoyed this rum. Mostly we drank it on the rocks with a hint of water. Since we both like spiced rum, I did some digging and found that spiced rum is generally spiced with cinnamon during the distillation process. We added our cinnamon after the rum had been distilled to great effect. Nutmeg was also good in it.

We finished the bottle off in about a week, though I think we were losing some to evaporation lacking a proper cork for the bottle. The corks we did have were not wide enough.

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Posted Jul 11, 04:58 PM by Matt |

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