Yaaarrggg! Ahoy maties, I be a captain on a swashbuckler ship. When ye be wanting to learn about rum ye best be talking to a pirate. Avast if ye be forgetting that us pirates know rum like we know booty plundering. When I plan to be out pirating around in me ship, I always make sure I load up on Captain Morgan Private Stock when I be in port. Well, I make me crew do all the loading of me ship on account I be spending me time with the wenches, plundering. Yaaarrggg!
Captain Morgan Private Stock was launched in 1996 and be produced by the Diageo company in Puerto Rico under the name of The Captain Morgan Rum Company. The distillers know what they be doing as they be making rum since 1944. They be starting out with some sugar cane molasses, water, mash and yeast. Once this be distilled, the rum goes into an oak barrel fer aging. After the rum be aged, a secret mix of island spices be blended in to produce me favorite spiced rum. As soon as ye uncork the bottle ye can enjoy a strong aroma dominated by vanilla but with an underlying hint of molasses. It be the best aroma to be found on a swashbuckler ship, but that nay be saying much. Yaaarrgg!
I like wenches, but nay as much as I be liking rum. Drinking me rum always be making the wenches look better. Yaaarrggg! Avast if ye be thinking that the only reason to drink Private Stock be to make the wenches look good. This be one of the best sipping rums to be found, and ye best not be sipping on me stash or it will be a walking of the plank fer ye. If ye be drinking it straight, then ye be experiencing flavors of mostly sweet molasses with a hint of vanilla and spice. The strong vanilla aroma not be carrying over to an overpowering vanilla taste. The overall flavor be smooth and mellow and ye only be getting a slight hint of the alcohol burn. Ye best be careful not to get carried away by the ease Private Stock be going down. Aye, she be packing an 80-proof punch, and she be making you wobble when you walk if you have more than a few. Yaaarrggg! She nay be so strong that ye be tipping over loaded to the gunwales, though. If ye be setting sail early the next morning, this rum be a good choice as she will take it easy on ye the morning after a long night of drinking.
Captain Morgan Private Stock be making fer a good mixing rum if ye want to add it to cola. It also be making a fantastic egg nog fer me swashbuckler party fer me friends and wenches. However, if ye really want to be getting the most out of ye Private Stock, I suggest just drinking it straight as everything just dilutes the already delicious flavors.
Captain Morgan Private Stock be a staple on my swashbuckler ship, fer meself of course. I make me crew drink RonRico on account they nay be worth the $26 a fifth this rum be costing. Aye, she be great fer mixing and she be even better on the rocks. So the next time ye be in port visiting the wenches, pick ye up a bottle before ye go back to pirating. Yaaarrggg!
Sipability - 8.5
Mixability - 8.5
Drunkability - 6.5
Hangover-ability - 7.5
Bang fer ye Buck - 6.5
Wench-appeal - 8.5
Overall - 8.0 
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I demand a higher rating for this piraty-delicious booze! 8.0 simply does not cut it!
That’s still one of the best ratings we’ve given…
OUTRAGE!!!
Mutiny!
I had to try this after reading the review. It’s much better than the Captain’s regular spiced rum. It’s smoother going down.
This stuff is like sweet sweet candy. The other night, we were playing Rock Band for the X-Box 260 (Guitar Hero with drums and vocals for those who don’t know), and when the Jaeger ran out, we began passing around a bottle of this. The bottle was gone by the end of the night.
ArrrRRRGGg! I be nominating this as LIQUOR OF THE MONTH!!!!!!!!!
ARRRRRHHHHHGGGGGHHHHHH!!!
I just be noticing this is ALREADY liquor of the month!
Justice be served.
Absolutely vile. The taste isn’t bad but neither me nor anyone I know has ever managed to down this poison without severe illness.
I’ll stick with the regular Captain.
vile my ass! go walk the plank disagreer. one of the best liquors made IMHO. goes really good with diet coke and bitters
i mix this stuff w/ lots of ice and a splash of ginger ale,
always a good night w/ private stock…i never get ‘’sloppy” off this and i can even still play guitar after a bottle.
gets a 9 and 1/2 in my drunken opinion.
!/2 pint of Regular Captin to 2 drinks, will evaluate private stock then comment. Looking to distill, home doppelbock brewer.
This is my favorite sipping rum, along with Matusalem Gran Reserva….that one has even more hints of vanilla, you guys should review it…..Thanks! I love this site!
Aye, this here’s me most favorite liquor! It goes down more than a wee bit smooth and makes me all warm and tingly and… where’s the captain????
I am a petite woman and this NEVER gives me a hangover in the morning. It’s very smooth, and I love the vanilla undertones. It’s a definite 9 1/2 in my pirate scroll!
Just jammin to some Slipknot, sipping my Private Stock after work, not a care in the world…. I drink this sweet innocence in a bottle before bed. “Night-cap,” I believe it is called, which is a term invented by alcoholics to describe, “Drinking-to-go-to-sleep.” Well, without the sound of bombs going off by my head I’ve been having a bit of difficult with it myself…. How about a night-cap!? (Get the pun, night CAP, like the Cap’n himself!) Welcome to my Hell people, welcome to my nightmare! Peace is inside Captain Morgan’s Private Stock…. Solutions are only one sip away!
I manage a retail liquor store and we always have people from various vendors/companies pouring things to sample. I’ve tried everything from rot gut vodka to the tiniest taste of Johnnie Walker Blue.
While scotch isn’t my bag, this is is the first liquor that I can sip on straight up with no chaser. I’ve had several other rums, Pyrate, Diplomatico, etc. but this one takes the cake.
At the end of the day, drink what you like… and this does it for me.
Cheers.
this is the best ever i drink it with diet coke. i will drink an entire bottle in the night (i’m 5′2 118 lbs) and i have yet to get a hung over on it i will never go back to the orignial spiced rum.. i hate puking in the morning
This rum is probably my favorite of all. Incredibly smooth, to the point of being surprising. It often makes me wonder if I’m drinking at all. Minutes later when the alcohol begins to catch up to me, I’m reminded I have been. If I could only drink one type of booze, for the rest of my life, this would be it. Never once has it given me a hangover (Though that typically isn’t a problem for me, it still is a concern from time to time.) It’s definitely worth the few extra dollars to step up from the Captain Morgan original. In closing, it be the only rum that gets me outta me bunk in the mornin’!
The best drink I have ever had personally, I love the vanilla, flippin’ tasty. I could live off this stuff forever. No hangovers, either. 10/10
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