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Multiple | Gold | 40% ABV | Pot Still Distilled
Pyrat XO Rum is produced from nine different Caribbean rums that are blended and then aged up to 15 years in used American sweet oak barrels.
The squat Pyrat XO rum bottle shape is inspired by the typical design of rum bottles kept by pirates and ship captains in the 19th century.
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Posted
over 10 years ago
This is a good rum to start with. I love the taste and finish of this rum, over ice and sipped.
Posted
over 11 years ago
Not wanting to use my Zacapa for mixing or experiments, I found the Pyrat XO a cheaper alternative with a lot of the same taste notes and positive connotations. I have kept a bottle at home since I found the rum, and enjoy its effects on my cocktail experiments.
Just failed to “wow” me, or even be memorable in anyway aside from the letdown. Pretty middle-of-the-road for flavor. Not even as complicated as some mid-tier Plantation offerings.
I had high hopes. The botel looked like it will have something more unusual in it but it was not what I found.
As plain as bacardii. Waste of money.
Posted
over 1 year ago
Love this one. Deep vanilla, orange, and oakey notes. But is it from Guyana or Anguilla?! Big dif good stuff tho
Posted
over 1 year ago
Tyckte den var lite svår att placera.. god eller inte. luktar ganska spritigt men smakar helt ok, behöver stå och lufta sig en stund innan man dricker för att få fram lite mer smak och mindre utav den tråkiga doften.
Posted
over 1 year ago
What you smell is mostly gasoline, what you taste is pure, sharp alcohol.
I admit I only let it breathe for about 1,5h, but in that time it did not get any better.
Passable with Coke.
Posted
over 1 year ago
Tastes like jet fuel, and whilst most jet fuels are made for flying aircraft every now and then some seem to slip past quality control and end up being put in colourful bottles for unsuspecting rum drinkers to cough and splutter over
Posted
2 years ago
En flaska rom med finare flaska än rom. Spritig i smaken och annars inte speciellt smakrik. Går att dricka med cola men det är inte mer.
Posted
almost 3 years ago
The looks of this rum is really great and the marketing blabla is equaly promising. The content is not as satisfiying though.. the taste is very harsh, you can smell and taste a lot of alcohol and too much orange aroma. I tried it neat, on the rocks, with lime and left it resting for a while, but I didn't find the right way to consume.
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Time! It needs time!
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out of 10
The Pyrat is kind of an intricate treat to enjoy. I opened the bottle, poured it in the tumbler and smelled it. What the....!? What's this tang? Is this alcohol fuel? Nonetheless I sipped it. Ohhhhh dear! How did the cleanser wind up in this awesome rum bottle!? So I left the tumbler alone, read the reviews and couldn't stop wondering about the extremely dissenting opinions. Some say it's god's gift to man, others say they wouldn't feed this dog's piss to their worst enemy.
I'm careful with 1 pointers as there's always the possibility of stumbling across the liquid spawn of hell, but I dead sure was ready to dish out my first 2 point review. On the other hand the very good reviews intrigued me enough to give it time and to let it breathe.
After 30 minutes: 2 out of 10. Very sharp smell, very one-dimensional taste.
After 1 hour: What's this? Is there actual taste under the layer of kerosene? We are getting somewhere: 5/10.
After 2 hours: BAMM! There it is! Cinnamon, vanilla, sherry and of course the dominant flavour of orange. The smell is godly, as is the taste that follows. Rich, mellow, well balanced. I could taste all the flavours I smelled before. This rum is really excellent, as long as you give it time to breath and evolve from terrible to bearable to impeccable. I sipped it as seen on the picture. Straight up, no ice, handwarm. For the price the Pyrat XO is a steal.