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Carbonsix

Frank Wynn told me about the CarbonSix distillery. There are 21
different miniatures on their web site, 11 Gins, 9 Vodkas and one
Rum. Curiously the rum is named Bay Rum and this used to be the
name of an aftershave! Having just written that I Googled it and was
amazed to find you can still buy Bay Rum aftershave. I wonder what
the rum tastes like?

Anyway, back to the minis. You can order them in packs of 6, 9 or 12
and chose the ones you want in each. Ordering a 9 and a 12 got me
all of them, except it didn’t – keep reading. The price, by current
standards in NZ, is reasonable. They cost me an average of just
under $6 each including rural delivery.

They were delivered and upon opening them
I found I had 21 square flask minis instead of
the 21 round minis shown on the web site.
Oh, and the labels are also different.

I contacted CarbonSix carefully explaining
that the bottle shape and label make a
difference to a collector and this is the reply
from Rufus at Carbon Six: “We’d usually
supply our mini packs in the round bottles;
however our supplier had run out of stock on
them for the past few months and we haven’t
had the chance to get them in yet. Thus
meanwhile, we could only use the square
bottles for now. We have been getting good
feedback on these square bottles though but

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