[OT] Language Cocktail

[Jacob Carlborg]

On 2013-09-18 20:39, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

> Particularly the flavored ones :). Like Coconut/Pineapple Parrot Bay, or
> Malibu. Tried Capt Morgan's spiced rum once too, very good. Not so
> big on black rum when I tried it, but maybe it was just the
> brand or needs the right mixed drink.

Nooooo, not Captain Morgan. It's horrible. Captain Morgan, Bacardi and 
Negrita (if I recall correctly) are the three worst kinds. At least of 
what is common here.

Havana Club is very nice standard rum. Nothing fancy, good for mixing 
drinks. Ron Barcelo is another good rum. Cruzan is also very nice, 
unfortunately I can get it here.

If you want something better, for drinking as it is without mixing, kind 
of like with Cognac, a dark rum is best. Rum Plantation Grande Reserve 
Barbados is one of my favorites, very affordable. Diplomático is a bit 
more expensive but very nice.

Mount Gay is a nice rum, both good for mixing drinks and drinking as it is.

With dark rums, it nice to drink them slightly warm. Boil some water, 
pour it in a glass. Pour some dark rum in a Cognac glass[1], put the 
glass with the rum on the glass with water. The glass with the rum 
shouldn't touch the water, but almost. You get a completely different 
flavor. Very nice :)

I once tried a dark rum. At first I almost thought it was whiskey, it 
had a very smoky flavor.

> Pirates (and ninjas!) know how to drink ;)

:)

[1] http://www.cognac-glasses.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Cognac.jpg

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/Jacob Carlborg