Post #770131 by A Frame on Wed, Nov 9, 2016 5:34 PM

Wow Tom, that's an aweful lot for a pint, isn't it? But it is very good rum. I have a lucky and much cheaper story to tell. I was doing some liquor store archeology in 2008 and saw a bunch of Dagger in 1.75 liter plastic bottles like this one on the very bottom shelf of a West Covina, CA store.

I thought the label looked familiar, so at home few days later I'm flipping through the Zombie section in The Bum's Sippin' Safari...and there's the bottle on the top shelf behind Jeff pouring a Zombie and looking like one!

Back to West Covina the next day. I took one of dusty bottles up to the counter and asked the clerk how much. He replied "$7.99"...so I grabbed all 11 bottles they had in two trips. I enjoyed it in Rum Barrels and Bayanihans at the Tiki Ti...A LOT. Although great neat, the Dagger really put the funk in any cocktail I tried it in.

Of course they stopped producing Dagger well before these bottles were found and I ended up either sharing or gifting most of it. See happy recipient.

I only have one bottle left ( in the first photo) which I'm holding for an undetermined special occasion. But I keep hoping for that label to pop up again somewhere!

See this post for more on Dagger Rum: http://www.tikicentral.com/viewtopic.php?topic=13196&forum=10