Review #1476; Rum #775 This rum was bottled by independent bottler The Whisky Jury. This rum is called The Duo and is a blend of 2 different rums. Both rums pot distilled, one from a country in South America and the other from Hampden Estate. A 6 year old South American rum and 2  year […]

Review #1475; Rum #774 This bottling of rum comes from American Independent bottler Raising Glasses, one of the best independent bottlers in the United States right now. This is a bottling of rum from the Beenleigh distillery. Located in Australia, this rum was distilled from molasses on a pot still and fermented using S. Pombe

Review #1474; Rum #773 This rum was bottled by independent bottler Salon du Rum. This rum was distilled from molasses after a long fermentation time with wild yeast before being distilled on a copper pot still at the Hampden Estate distillery in Jamaica. It was then shipped to Europe where it aged for 28 years

Review #1473; Rum #772 This rum comes from the Bacardi distillery located in Casa Bacardí in Puerto Rico. (I won’t get into the whole Bacardí debate here). This rum was created to celebrate the 160th anniversary of the the company. I can’t find much about how it was made, no real surprise there, but they

Review #1472; Rum #: 771 Here we have rum from independent bottlers The Colours of Rum. This rum was distilled at the Bellevue distillery in 1998 on the island of Guadeloupe. It aged for 6 years in an ex-rum cask in the tropics before ageing another 17 years in Europe. It was then bottled at

This sample was provided to me by a producer, distributor, or some other industry source free-of-charge. No compensation, outside of the sample, was received and there were no strings attached. Review #1471; Rum #770 Here we have a bottle of rum from Spinnaker, a new American Independent rum bottler based out of Austin Texas. This

Review #1470; Rum #769 Here we have a bottle of rum from American Independent bottlers Raising Glasses, who I must say are much braver than I ever could be with this name and photo they used for this bottle. This is a molasses based rum from the Beenleigh distillery located in Australia. Distilled and fermentd

Review #1469; Rum #768 Here we have a bottle of rum from Independent bottler The Colours of Rum who is new to me. This rum was distilled from molasses at the now closed Caroni distillery located in Trinidad. The rum was distilled on a column still and aged for 11 years in tropical weather. It

This sample was provided to me by a producer, distributor, or some other industry source free-of-charge. No compensation, outside of the sample, was received and there were no strings attached. Review #1468; Rum #767 Spinnaker is the newest kid on the American Rum Independent Bottler block created by Kevin McBrayer and based out of Austin

Review #1467; Rum #766 Doorly’s 12 is a bottling of rum from Foursquare located on the island of Barbados. It is a blend of pot and column distillated that aged for 12 years in ex-bourbon casks at origin, and the blend contains rum aged for 12 years in ex-Madeira casks, all at origin in Barbados.