Comments on: Review: Blackbeard Spiced Rum

By: Bilge

Bilge — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:43:02 +0000

You’ve clearly given this far more thought than I have, Jimbo. You raise some interesting points. But on the other hand, it’s all in good fun, and I don’t think fun marketing necessarily overshadows the rum inside – for good or for ill.

Elton John’s Spiced? Now THAT would be a fun product to market

By: Capn Jimbo's Rum Project

Capn Jimbo's Rum Project — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:35:54 +0000

Bilge! I was just about to beg you for another rum review, and thus checked in to discover… another rum review. Thanks. As far as Blackbeard and rum marketing departments I’m still trying to figure out whether you’re doing Blackbeard – or this rum pirating his name – whether you’re doing him/it a favor or not.

Marketing departments just love to coopt history to create a kind of faux-provenance – a technique that I’d hope would fail. In the world of spirits real provenance really does count and ought to – think Mount Gay from 1703, or Appleton/Wray not long after. Or Barbancourt from about 200 years ago.

But “Blackbeard’s” spiced? Would we react the same way for “Elton John’s Spiced”, lol?

By: Jack

Jack — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 19:47:38 +0000

I was interested in this rum, as my local liqour store placed it next to the cheap rums…….my staple is sailor jerrys, might have to try this now.