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My Scale for Rating Rum Keep in mind as you read my reviews and ratings that I'm giving you my opinions from a unique perspective. So here's that view of rum that impacts my ratings.

1. I really, really don't like spiced or flavored rum.

2. I've discovered a preference for aging that transcends price.

3. Too much alcohol or too much of a burn straight up hides the quality of rum.

4. I'm surprisingly unswayed by others' opinions of rums, but I am driven to try rums about which others rave.

5. I gave up trying and rating cheaper rums with the exception of some novelty rums.

6. A typical tasting is both straight up and with Diet Coke.

7. I'm not much of a drinker. I don't have more than two drinks in an evening. So I really savor my rum and Diet Cokes.

My Rating Scale 1 to 10, Worst to Best No quibbling over decimal points; although, I have gone back and changed ratings--and reserve the authority to do so again.

The lowest three ratings are just rather poor rums that I don't like.
1 = Pour it out. 2 = Rub it on. 3 = Give it away.

The next three ratings mix with my Diet Coke, and I can be polite about them in company.
4 = Mix it very well. 5 = Mix it. 6 = Accept the gift, but don't regift.

The 7's are a conundrum. They knocked on the door, but the knock on them is typically too much alcohol bite.
7 = Don't turn it down.

These are the rums I hope to get when dining out or in a bar.
8 = Put it on the Top Shelf. 9 = Write it at the Top of the List.


These rums are so far above the others that everyone who tastes them instantly realizes they are special.
10 = Mark it as the Ultimate Rum.

Value Ratings The value ratings are calculated by squaring a rum's rating and dividing by the price for a 750 ml bottle. The very expensive ones don't compete on value. The really bad ones can't overcome their 1 or 2 ratings. This helps find the 8's and 9s that deliver the best taste for the money.

Saturday, May 19, 2012


The Spirit of Texas—The Best and Worst

How can the best and worst of Texas rum come from the same little company in Pflugerville in central Texas?  The followers of this blog already know that Pecan Street Rum (Rating 8) is one of the highest value rums.  However, its sister rum from the same company, Spirit of Texas Rum (Rating 1), a white rum, hardly passes as rum. 

Pecan Street Rum is one of my favorites with its slight hint of pecans.  However, Spirit of Texas Rum has universally drawn the most puckery, frownery grimices from the poor souls I’ve offered tastes. 

I bought a bottle from the local liquor store simply because it’s from Texas, only to be warned by the clerk that a bottle had actually been returned by another customer.  Wow, that was sobering.  Sobering is the last thing one wants from a bottle of rum!  After his taste of this brew, a colleague of mine even asked me if I might have gotten that returned bottle.

Oh well, let’s declare that the Pfugerville folks have credit in store for Pecan Street Rum.  Then let’s ask for in-store credit for Spirit of Texas Rum.  
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