BLURGGGGGHHH ka ka kadi! (Bacardi Carta Blanca)

Member Name: kittykat18

Product:	Bacardi Carta Blanca
Date:	18/09/02 (294 review reads)
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Advantages: Gets me pissed, doesn't taste *too* bad

Disadvantages: Smells a bit like nail polish remover, other drinks are far nicer

Not my favourite spirit but for some reason they don't sell Malibu in the off licence by me. So bacardi it had to be, the classic glass bottle with its white lid and label. The packaging is nothing special but it's plain, simple and instantly recognisable.

Bacardi is a white rum which has been produced in Cuba for over 100 years. It's nice alone, with various mixers or cocktails, as well as being the main content of the popular girly night out drink of flavoured bacardi breezers (the lime one is nicest). I became partial to Bacardi when working in Spain a few summers ago, where a tumbler of 'cardicoke' was the equivalent of about a pound. Sadly, in the UK, a measure of bacardi in the pub will cost in the region of £1.50-£2.50, while bottles are avaliable in various sizes in the off licence and supermarket. You can get even bigger and cheaper ones in duty free. My bottle is 35cl and cost about £6, and is plenty to get me lashed, as well as a friend or willing male if I was in the mood for a bit of corruption.

I've usually been in a drunken state after encountering this product, so an unusually sober Pussyatty will weigh up the goods now (and polish off the bottle after posting this op!) Bacardi is a clear, slightly syrupy liquid. The odour it gives off sits somewhere between medicine, cleaning products and fruit. Sounds really pleasant, I know, but it's not a very strong smell and not an unpleasant one (although not as nice as the coconut hues of malibu). It is however, one of those smells that will haunt you forever if you have a bad experience with this substance, so take it easy or a mere whiff of bacardi will send you rushing for the nearest toilet, as it does for a friend of mine.

It's 37.5% alcohol so be careful drinking this, especially when pouring your own measures (which if you're like me, are ever so much more generous than pub measures). It's nice with coke, orangeade or lemonade as well
as any fruit juices.

Most people either like Bacardi or can't stand it. I'm not fussed, but then I'll drink anything as long as the effect is good and it doesn't taste like paintstripper (or gin). You wouldn't exactly call be the conissuer or alcohol. I never drink bacardi when I go out, because it's too expensive and the 25mls wouldn't get a gerbil tipsy, but it's nice to have a bottle in the drinks cupboard (make that the drinks shed on second thoughts!).

Bacardi does not seem to create a specific type of drunkenness, at least not in my experience. If I drink it whilst getting ready to go out, it gets me in the mood, making me giggly, hyper and basically a silly moo. If I drink it sitting down, relaxing, it makes me more chatty and warms the cockles of my heart. A truly versatile product, the taste is not too overpowering so you can create all kinds of concoctions with it. It's still not much to write home about though.

Got to go now, got to get through the rest of my bottle and I'll update about the hangover tomorrow. From what I remember, bacardi doesn't give a bad hangover, maybe because it's a clear drink hence less additives. Maybe just because I'm a sprightly young thing who only really gets hangovers that last an hour (don't you hate me now?)

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