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olotti · 01-24-2007, 07:44 AM

I'm a newb completely when it comes to drinking real rums. So far I've only had Pyrat XO and didn't really care for it, while smooth I just didn't like the overpowering orange/citrus taste it had. I recently came across a bottle of HC7 and am wondering how do you enjoy this libation. Do you drink it over ice, without ice, 1 cube, with water?

parshooter · 01-24-2007, 09:38 AM

I didn't care that much for the HC7. I would drink it either over ice or with a splash of fruit-flavored carbinated water. I love Pyrat and Ron Zacapa Centenario. Both those I drink up

SMOKINACTUARY · 01-24-2007, 09:58 AM

straight, water back.

TommyBB · 01-24-2007, 10:10 AM

Two cans of beer a day, that's your bleedin' lot
Now we get another one because they stopped the tot......a sailor ain't a sailor ain't a sailor any more.

Catdeddy · 01-24-2007, 10:25 AM

For me, HC7 is good all the way around--coke, sprite, mojito, straight over ice and a small splash of water. Nice robust rum taste with no hint of "spirits" as a filler, like a lot of readily available rums.

Try it different ways and see which works best for you.

Black Plague · 01-24-2007, 11:32 AM

Anyone here who would DARE dilute HC7 with Coke, water, froo-froo water, or any other adulterant should be

'd!!!

Making a strong cocktail or MAYBE throwing an ice cube in would be acceptable...but just barely.

Pour a few fingers in a shot glass, rocks glass, or snifter (I prefer the latter) and drink it straight up the way God intended!

Catdeddy · 01-24-2007, 03:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Black Plague

Anyone here who would DARE dilute HC7 with Coke, water, froo-froo water, or any other adulterant should be

'd!!!

Making a strong cocktail or MAYBE throwing an ice cube in would be acceptable...but just barely.

Pour a few fingers in a shot glass, rocks glass, or snifter (I prefer the latter) and drink it straight up the way God intended!

I do not disagree, and would not have said what I said if Ferdelance was out of the hospital or up and around for fear that he would have done just that.

But the fact remains: HC7 and HC Blanco have flavors that work well with mixers. It makes an outstanding mojito. And, if mixed as an adult mixes a drink, you still get a great rum taste. If mixed like we did in high school and college, the mixer would drown it out.

By the same token, if you want a good rum straight, the Anejo is not that much more expensive, and should NEVER be mixed with anything stronger than water. Otherwise, it is a waste of exceptional rum and money. No Anejo? Then, by all means--HC7!

Sancho Panza · 01-24-2007, 04:31 PM

Keep all my rum in the freezer, including any Cuban rum I happen to have...

I mix mine with

&/or lemonaide & make Mojitos outa it, an' don' give a shit in hell what others think...

In the winter it's good over ice with a little water an' a twist, but it's way too gd hot here in the summer for drinkin' it like cognac.

Sancho Panza · 01-24-2007, 04:33 PM

an' I been doin' that since befo' BP was legal to drink...

Black Plague · 01-24-2007, 04:57 PM

Well if a man's age was a qualifier for taste...then Dutch Masters and El Productos would be connoisseur smokes

01-24-2007, 07:44 AM	#1
olotti Club Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,528	How do you take your rum? I'm a newb completely when it comes to drinking real rums. So far I've only had Pyrat XO and didn't really care for it, while smooth I just didn't like the overpowering orange/citrus taste it had. I recently came across a bottle of HC7 and am wondering how do you enjoy this libation. Do you drink it over ice, without ice, 1 cube, with water? __________________ "Try not! Do or do not, there is no try." -Yoda "To alcohol, the cause of and solution to all of life's problems." -Homer Simpson

01-24-2007, 09:38 AM	#2
parshooter Herf God Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: St Somewhere Posts: 14,444	I didn't care that much for the HC7. I would drink it either over ice or with a splash of fruit-flavored carbinated water. I love Pyrat and Ron Zacapa Centenario. Both those I drink up __________________ "I'm not drunk, I've just been drinking." Pat Daley #69 of the JLOH

01-24-2007, 09:58 AM	#3
SMOKINACTUARY Huge Cranium Herf God Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Highland Mills, NY Posts: 14,457	straight, water back. __________________ ...the gas chambers of Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Maidanek were ultimately prepared not in some ministry or other in Berlin, but rather at the desks and in the lecture halls of nihilistic scientists and philosophers. - Viktor Frankl

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01-24-2007, 10:25 AM	#5
Catdeddy Herf Meister Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Jackson, Mississippi USA Posts: 5,579	For me, HC7 is good all the way around--coke, sprite, mojito, straight over ice and a small splash of water. Nice robust rum taste with no hint of "spirits" as a filler, like a lot of readily available rums. Try it different ways and see which works best for you. __________________ Smoke a cigar and make a great day better.

01-24-2007, 11:32 AM	#6
Black Plague Herf Meister Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 7,650	Anyone here who would DARE dilute HC7 with Coke, water, froo-froo water, or any other adulterant should be 'd!!! Making a strong cocktail or MAYBE throwing an ice cube in would be acceptable...but just barely. Pour a few fingers in a shot glass, rocks glass, or snifter (I prefer the latter) and drink it straight up the way God intended!

01-24-2007, 04:31 PM	#8
Sancho Panza Floridays Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: La Habaña, Cuba Posts: 19,744	Keep all my rum in the freezer, including any Cuban rum I happen to have... I mix mine with &/or lemonaide & make Mojitos outa it, an' don' give a shit in hell what others think... In the winter it's good over ice with a little water an' a twist, but it's way too gd hot here in the summer for drinkin' it like cognac. __________________ For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o'clock on that July afternoon in 1863... William Faulkner, Intruder in the Dust 1948

01-24-2007, 04:33 PM	#9
Sancho Panza Floridays Herf God Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: La Habaña, Cuba Posts: 19,744	an' I been doin' that since befo' BP was legal to drink...

01-24-2007, 04:57 PM	#10
Black Plague Herf Meister Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Southern Indiana Posts: 7,650	Well if a man's age was a qualifier for taste...then Dutch Masters and El Productos would be connoisseur smokes