![]() Sand dunes piled high against the cheaply-built city walls, the pirate hunting Armada de Barlovento was not in port, the governor refused to believe the two ships seen earlier were pirates, and even the three-man mounted guard who spotted the buccaneers ashore were too frightened to ride ahead and give warning. It was a lure the eight hundred buccaneers could not resist-and the city was wide open. Pieces-of-eight and silver bars! Jewels and gold doblóns! Gold and silver church icons! Cochineal, indigo, logwood, and cacao! Rich silks and glazed china! In the bodegas and aduana of the city lay not only two years’ worth of the plundered wealth of New Spain, but also valuable goods from the Far East, the latter having arrived after a long voyage across the Pacific to Acapulco aboard the Manila galleons, and from there across the arid Mexican countryside via mule trains known as recuas. But before we get to Pitman’s odyssey and how it ultimately gave birth to the novel and the film version starring Errol Flynn, and thereby made him a star, we must first slip back to 1683, to Veracruz, Mexico as most of its inhabitants slept, in spite of obvious warning signs, as buccaneers set foot ashore not far away… ![]() His story alone is worth the telling, and frankly no one does it better than he does. One of Sabatini’s major influences was the published journal of Monmouth rebel-convict Henry Pitman who, sentenced to indentured servitude on Barbados, escaped by sea, found himself marooned on Saltudos Island, and was eventually rescued by a crew of unnamed buccaneers. The flavors are real fruit and they are not over sweetened.With the advent of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Captain Blood: His Odyssey by Rafael Sabatini, not to mention our forthcoming thoroughly annotated anniversary edition, a look into the largely unknown, and until now unpublished, history behind the novel is timely: of real buccaneers and mystery pirates, of an incognito pirate captain whose identity we hope to reveal for the first time, and how without them there would be no famous novel Captain Blood nor any films of Errol Flynn, at least as we know them! The Bottom Line: White Claw has more fresh brewed tea flavor than any of the other brands of Iced Tea Hard Seltzer. It fades with sour mango and finishes with brewed black tea and mango gummy taste. The sweetened mango entry is joined by iced tea building to a juicy mango peak. Additional time in the glass brings out an iced tea backing. White Claw Mango Iced Tea: The aroma leads with fresh sliced mango. It fades with sour lemon and finishes with fresh brewed tea leaf taste. Unlike the other hard lemon iced tea brands iced tea plays the lead with the lemon playing a supporting role. The sweet iced tea entry is joined by lemon juice building to a tart iced tea peak. Additional time in the glass brings out a lemonade backing. White Claw Lemon Iced Tea: The aroma leads with fresh brewed tea. The juicy raspberry iced tea entry builds to a tart raspberry jam and fresh tea peak that leads to a long fresh brewed black tea and raspberry licorice finish. White Claw Raspberry Iced Tea: The aroma leads with fresh picked raspberry. It fades with juicy peach and finishes with fresh brewed black tea. The sweet iced tea and fresh peach entry builds to a fresh brewed tea and ripe peach peak. White Claw Peach Iced Tea: The aroma leads with fresh smashed peach. Each 12 ounce can weighs in with 5% alcohol, and 100 calories. It is sold in a four flavor 12 can variety pack with three cans each of Peach, Raspberry, Lemon, and Mango. White Claw Hard Seltzer Iced Tea is crafted using a unique Brewpure Process, sustainably sourced brewed black tea extract, purified carbonated water, alcohol from cane sugar, and natural flavor specific juice concentrate. At one time they also sold 2 flavors of a 70 calorie White Claw Hard Seltzer. ![]() White Claw currently offers three 12 can variety packs, White Claw Surge, their higher octane 8% hard seltzer, and Mike’s Hard Lemonade Seltzer. It is the third in our Memorial Day roundup of hard seltzer iced tea brands. White Claw Hard Seltzer Iced Tea was released March 2021. ![]()
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