Soft Belly Dept: Softball questions for Richard Seale

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Soft Belly Dept: Softball questions for Richard Seale

Post by Capn Jimbo »

Anyone remember the Fatrumpirate?


This is the guy who made a couple attempts to register here. Now before I approve anyone I check em out, send them a personal email and try to determine their legitimate interest, but more importantly a willingness to participate. I work hard to restrict access to only you brilliant and wonderful members. And to me, lol...

Well, in checking out the Soft Bellied one, I found him quite active at the Shillery, but even worse that his one line posts were simply teases linking his own website and trying to drive traffic there. I checked out his website and at that time found his reviews rather uninformed, particularly insofar as the major and basic issue of alteration. I respectfully advised him that the Project was not a good fit for him, and wished him well. Still..


The Fat One interviewed Richard, but did he?

Not really. What he did pose were mostly softball questions that even he adimitted were so:
"The interview is fairly light hearted and I have deliberately avoided the “added sugar” debate in the main because Richard has made his views on this quite clear on numerous occasions already. Despite the light hearted nature of the interview Richard still gave us some very interesting answers..."
Light hearted indeed. I'm surprised he didn't ask him about the weather. To his credit, Mr. Belly gives some credit to the Project for discussing the Plantation issue, but he fails to make clear that Seales does NOT do any direct business with them (Plantation simply buys from a middleman, as you or I could do). As we all know well, Seales is absolutely firm on no additives, period and completely honest ages. "Distilled by Foursquare" does NOT appear on any Plantation product. Why the Rotund One pretends not to know these - especially having referenced us - is self serving.

Richard seems to sense this and quickly debunks the premise of more than one of the naive questions posed. Nonetheless, any interview by Seales is worth a read...




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http://thefatrumpirate.com/an-interview ... hard-seale

Note: astute readers will note the Tubby One stroked Seales with his "Rum of the Month", and further that he promotes his "affiliate" sales outlets (from whom I'd guess he may well get freebies to review).
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Post by AK9 »

thanks for the link.
Interesting interview.

Why is Velier considered so special?



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CJ: AK, the Lone Caner did a nice piece on Velier, here...
http://thelonecaner.com/velier/
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Post by The Black Tot »

Velier releases rums at cask strength, aged in the tropics, and puts all the information that they can on the labels.

I don't have any yet, since there's a fair amount of dread associated with paying what they cost.

...but being a sucker for the Demerarans, I'm going to have to suck it up sooner or later.

I wish I was in the UK during Richard's lectures. I would have found a way to see him.

I seem to have missed a lot with this trip at sea. Coffeecon 2015 also happened without me in NYC.
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Post by Dai »

Beat me to it Jimbo I intended to link the fatrumpirate interview.
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Post by JaRiMi »

Velier is one company that has invested directly into DDL for example in cold cash. As is, they get to select casks from them also directly. Thus the influx of great Demerara bottling from Velier/Gargano in last 10 years..
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