yoho homie hearties
and a bottle of rum i'm ralphie welcome to my channel ralphie.com i am primarily a whisky
reviewer but i'm doing these rapid reviews to introduce you to other spirits that cross
my path some of them i have to say i enjoy less than others
in this occasion it's kraken black spiced rum a brand which appeared in the market in 2010
which at the moment 11 years ago nice big fat cork on it this particular version comes in a ceramic
decanter with the the double loops that you get from old reminiscent a reproduction of old
victorian bottles and you have the generalized outline of a sea squid on it the brand really
was capitalizing on the pirates of the caribbean effect and it quickly established itself as a very
promoted
brand seen on a lot of bar shelves and featured in a lot of novelty cocktails in fact if you go to
the kraken rum website you'll find it's quite cartoonishly presented and if you're interested
you can join the league of darkness which is the supporters club and apparently you get
10 off some things so there you go so how does it actually taste on its own without the ginger beer
which would make it a dark and stormy or coca-cola which would make it a rum and coke
very vanilla rich very reminiscent actually of trinidadian rum
um which has that light soft intensely vanillaed flavor to it
in fact i think there's vanilla added to it in production to be honest it's so intense
the color is derived from caramel currant uh just to put you out your if you had any doubts
that the color actually came from wooden casks you know not really it's called e150a
artificial cow naturally natural stroke artificial caramel colorant smell
vanilla slightly rummy slight industrial fairly simple flavor
relatively bland clean enough bottled it forty percent so at least you're getting
something that's of a reasonable strength for being a bradley brand lead consumer product
flavor doesn't hang around much you get a little bit of a slightly bitter nip in the finish due to
the caramel in it but uh i'd say fairly innocuous and that's what it's designed to be this is not
a sipping room um if you want to sip it fire away you may be just disappointed by the
the lack of monstrousness about it um it does not have the bite of a kraken put it that way
um and as for being a beast it's a very mild tame vanilla beast like vanilla ice cream
and the sugar in it just so as you know
well that was exciting for about three or four seconds just sharing