Comments on: Review: Rogue Spirits White http://www.bilgemunky.com/pirate-reviews/rum/rogue-spirits-white/ Pirate news, reviews, and commentary. Fashion, music, literature, rum - if it's piratey, it's here! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:48:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Bilge http://www.bilgemunky.com/pirate-reviews/rum/rogue-spirits-white/comment-page-1/#comment-1991 Bilge Thu, 05 Feb 2009 00:52:54 +0000 http://www.bilgemunky.com/?p=2308#comment-1991 Astringent as in styptic? You're quite right - I can't even imagine how styptic would relate to taste or the sensation of consuming a beverage. Unless your gums are bleeding, so maybe it's a scurvy thing. But astringent can also be defined as sour, bitter, harshly biting, as well as that sensation of having the moisture sucked from the lining of your mouth. It was in these ways that I utilized the word - particularly in the "harshly biting" way, as many white rums taste little different than I would imagine rubbing alchohol to taste. Bacardi comes to mind, as do the many other white rums commonly found in liquor stores. "Top shelf" white rums are still a rarity, although this does seem to be changing. Astringent as in styptic? You’re quite right – I can’t even imagine how styptic would relate to taste or the sensation of consuming a beverage. Unless your gums are bleeding, so maybe it’s a scurvy thing.

But astringent can also be defined as sour, bitter, harshly biting, as well as that sensation of having the moisture sucked from the lining of your mouth. It was in these ways that I utilized the word – particularly in the “harshly biting” way, as many white rums taste little different than I would imagine rubbing alchohol to taste. Bacardi comes to mind, as do the many other white rums commonly found in liquor stores.

“Top shelf” white rums are still a rarity, although this does seem to be changing.

]]> By: Zacapa http://www.bilgemunky.com/pirate-reviews/rum/rogue-spirits-white/comment-page-1/#comment-1990 Zacapa Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:53:54 +0000 http://www.bilgemunky.com/?p=2308#comment-1990 I've tasted a LOT of rums, both dark and white, and never have come across a non-flavored white that I would call "astringent" as in styptic or puckery or "flavorless". Which ones have you tasted that earned these descriptions? I’ve tasted a LOT of rums, both dark and white, and never have come across a non-flavored white that I would call “astringent” as in styptic or puckery or “flavorless”. Which ones have you tasted that earned these descriptions?

]]> By: Big T http://www.bilgemunky.com/pirate-reviews/rum/rogue-spirits-white/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 Big T Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:34:35 +0000 http://www.bilgemunky.com/?p=2308#comment-1889 i will have to get a bottle and try it out i will have to get a bottle and try it out

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