Jan 162022

Other Notes
- Letter of Marque is a brand of the Rum Cask indie bottler in Germany
- The rum was selected by bloggers Rumboom, Single Cask Rum and Barrel Aged Thoughts.
- Distilled in 2009, this was some of Hampden’s first output laid down to age, when they reopened that year
- 300-bottle outturn
- A “Letter of Marque,” once called a privateering commission, was a document issued by a Government (usually the crown) during the Age of Sail to authorize a private person to attack ships of another nation with which the Government was currently at war. Essentially it legalized piracy by outsourcing naval guerilla operations to mercenaries — privateers or corsairs — under the mantle of the national interest. The 1856 Paris Declaration eventually ended the practice of privateering and the issuance of such letters worldwide.
- On Rum-X, some thirty or so DOK rums are listed; clearly, whether we like it or not, these high-ester funk delivery systems are here to stay and as long as they get made, they will get sold, and drunk, and boasted about.