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J JenTiki Grand Member (1 year) Home of the best rum collection in NC Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Posts: 2336	J JenTiki Posted posted on Mon, Jun 20, 2016 11:29 AM On 2016-06-18 20:52, hang10tiki wrote: Internet search More research Product Description Pyrat (Old English: pronounced pirate) Cask is an ultra premium aged, limited production rum. This excellent dark amber rum is blended from the finest Caribbean rums, aged up to 40 years. Pyrat Cask has the body and color of a rare cognac and is perfect for sipping. Our Take: I came in to this tasting with high expectations, and this rum ran a marathon past the line I had set in my mind for it. It is one of those rare potables that I find hard to drink, because I get trapped up in how amazing the aroma proves to be. When I finally sip it I in turn get trapped in the depth of its flavor. This rum is definitely intoxicating on more than one level. Aroma: blood orange, apricots, brown sugar Taste: intense blood orange, sweet apricot jam, brown sugar, pie crust, graham cracker, everything intense Finish: lingering warmth, no heat, just warmth Feel: full bodied, syrupy, viscous My $.02: Way over-priced, over-sweetened, artificial-tasting swill. All those sweet flavors mentioned above (intense blood orange, sweet apricot jam, brown sugar, pie crust, graham cracker) are overwhelming and cloying. It tastes more like candy than rum. It's been a while since I've had it because I learned my lesson the first two times, and my palate has developed since then, but even in my early rum drinking days (when I still liked Zaya), it was too sweet for me. For the price of one bottle of this, you can get 3-7 bottles of much better rum that isn't just a bunch of chemical flavoring.

On 2016-06-18 20:52, hang10tiki wrote:
Internet search

More research

Product Description
Pyrat (Old English: pronounced pirate) Cask is an ultra premium aged, limited production rum. This excellent dark amber rum is blended from the finest Caribbean rums, aged up to 40 years. Pyrat Cask has the body and color of a rare cognac and is perfect for sipping.

Our Take:
I came in to this tasting with high expectations, and this rum ran a marathon past the line I had set in my mind for it. It is one of those rare potables that I find hard to drink, because I get trapped up in how amazing the aroma proves to be. When I finally sip it I in turn get trapped in the depth of its flavor. This rum is definitely intoxicating on more than one level.

Aroma: blood orange, apricots, brown sugar
Taste: intense blood orange, sweet apricot jam, brown sugar, pie crust, graham cracker, everything intense
Finish: lingering warmth, no heat, just warmth
Feel: full bodied, syrupy, viscous

My $.02: Way over-priced, over-sweetened, artificial-tasting swill. All those sweet flavors mentioned above (intense blood orange, sweet apricot jam, brown sugar, pie crust, graham cracker) are overwhelming and cloying. It tastes more like candy than rum. It's been a while since I've had it because I learned my lesson the first two times, and my palate has developed since then, but even in my early rum drinking days (when I still liked Zaya), it was too sweet for me. For the price of one bottle of this, you can get 3-7 bottles of much better rum that isn't just a bunch of chemical flavoring.

Post #765256 by JenTiki on Mon, Jun 20, 2016 11:29 AM