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Rum Review: Rogue Spirits White Rum
Posted on May 23rd, 2010
I’ve had this sitting in the back of my cupboard for quite a while now. And, I’ll be honest, it’s because I didn’t like it when I bought it.
But my neighbor is practicing Chopin, so I’m in a good mood and I’m gonna give it another go.
Rogue Spirits is the distilling offspring of Rogue Ales. They produce two gins, a whiskey, and three rums. I’ve heard good things about their dark rum, but not much about the white. The bottle is clear and square; similar to a bottle of 10 Cane, except the sides are even, not wide and thin like the 10 Cane; and decorated with the likeness of Jean Lafitte, which gave it an extra positive mark in my book because it meets fills my need for pirates and my need for things related to New Orleans. The color of the rum inside is… well… pretty damn clear. I read a review that called it “straw” colored, but to say that is to admit you’ve never seen straw.
So, having said that. This clear liquor presents a redeeming quality once the bottle is cracked. It actually has a nose that isn’t like sniffing rubbing alcohol. Actually it reminds me a little of tequila. I actually asked my wife (the tequila drinker) to give it a smell and she agreed. There’s a faint sweetness and a quality I can’t think of a way to describe outside of herbal. Not like… Chartreuse. It’s a very fleshed out, but cool, plant aroma. Like I said, it reminds me of tequila. No hints of oak or molasses. Perhaps it’s the smell of sugar cane…
The taste is, honestly, not too bad considering it’s a white rum. The alcohol is obviously there, but it’s not overwhelming. There’s no terrible burn when it’s going down and the flavor is mellow. Still like a tequila with some phantom sweetness, but an interesting change to the usual hum-drum white rum.
Looking this over I’m feeling bad about how short it is, but it’s a white rum. What am I supposed to say?
Overall, for a white rum.. I give this rum seven peg-legs out of ten. So, yeah, it’s ok. Not a daily drinker, but it’s a white rum.
I’ll definitely take this over a Bacardi any day, and I’ve got half the bottle steeping into grog… so we’ll see how that goes.
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