Talk:Bacardi 151

message: I am weary of the connection to Trucker Max.  The drink certainly predates Trucker; while it is possible that he popularized it, I somehow doubt it.  What sources? Rlove 03:19, 26 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Heh... you mean TUCKER Max? 69.143.240.243 (talk) 19:31, 22 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Trucker Max Connection

message: Consuming this "straight" is NOT encouraged... it says so on the drinks label.
I'm not exactly sure doctors would have a firm number for getting "wasted" on any drink.
:Yes but it's not our job to tell people that, I removed it from the article. Cat-five - talk 08:27, 14 January 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Straight consumption 

message: Proof is calculated by converting the percentage alcohol into a decimal, and multiplying it by 175. (See Wikipedia's "Proof (alcohol)" page for more info.)
This can be verified by calculating the proof of pure alcohol, which should be 175:
100% alcohol = 1.00 
1.00 x 175 = 175 proof
Bacardi 151 does not have the 75.5% alcohol that is currently stated on the content page.  Instead:
151 = proof 
X = % alcohol (in decimal form)
X x 175 = 151 proof 
X = 151/175 proof 
X = .863
.863 = 86.3% alcohol
I'm going to go ahead and correct it, on the basis stated above.
Awesomebitch (talk) 01:56, 3 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alcohol Content 

message: Does anyone else think it is inappropriate that a search for 151-proof rum redirects to this page.  It's not as though Bacardi is the only brand of 151-proof rum in existence.  That would be like a search for bandage redirecting to Band-Aid, or a search for facial tissue redirecting to Kleenex.  151.199.249.245 (talk) 21:13, 8 January 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a lot more appropriate than this page being the first Google result for "151". That said, if there are other notable 151 proof rums, then a "151 proof rum" page should be made and this page turned into a redirect. --MarkGyver (talk) 12:54, 8 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Why Bacardi?

message: The author should please provide documentation for this claim that Bacardi 151 was first imported to the U.S. in 1995.  Millions of U.S. university students were obtaining it somehow by the time I first came across it in 1992.  Please help refine this section. Thank you. Scholardiogenes (talk) 07:42, 18 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: In fairness, the article only says, "Bacardi 151 was imported to America in 1995." Which is true. But you're right, it certainly wasn't first imported in 1995, because we were making daiquiris from it back in 1983 on my campus.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.191.166.202 (talk) 00:21, 26 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  First importation to America - 1995? 

message: Can anyone find a source claiming that the typical rum is 70-80 proof? There are several popular rums (sailor jerry etc.) that are 90+ proof. 142.161.97.237 (talk) 05:43, 10 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Typical proof claims 

message: I'm new to this whole Wikipedia thing, so I wasn't sure what to do regarding a source for when 151 was discontinued. The Internet Archive can only show that as of Feb 21, 2017, Bacardi didn't have 151 in their site's list of rums; Idaho's State Liquor Division can very it as of Feb 1, 2017; and the earliest I've found that's not rumors from reddit is a post on Jan 12, 2017 from a blog about alcohol which claims that they contacted Bacardi to verify the discontinuation. I haven't found a source that states when it was discontinued, and I'm unsure about these sources' reliability, so I'll let someone more senior decide which (if any) to use.
Sssteennnn (talk) 07:25, 22 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discontinuation sources? 

message: The first paragraph is incorrect. It says 151 existed from 1981 to 2016. I don't know when it was first produced but here is a mention from 1963. https://books.google.com/books?id=TAFLAQAAIAAJ&q=%22bacardi+151%22&dq=%22bacardi+151%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjRxc_0iLzSAhVHSyYKHa_nBfwQ6AEIMTAF
Also the reference cited in the first paragraph (#1) was retrieved in 2012 so obviously does not work as a citation for the production end date of 2016, though it did in fact end production last year. All that reference has is a casual mention by the writer that he drank some 151 in 1981.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.178.166.115 (talk) 05:11, 4 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Beginning and end of production