Review #1374; Rum #677 Mater is a new rum brand that comes from the Almba Distilleria Artigianale, a distillery located on the island of Sicily in Italy. Here, the single estate grows and harvest their cane by hand, crush the cane with a small mill, and ferment with oenological yeasts, for 72-96 hours. It is […]
Review #1373; Rum #676 Here we have another bottling from Foursquare, that famous Barbados distillery. This release is from the Exceptional Cask Series line and is the 28th release in that series. This rum is a blend of pot and column distillate from a molasses base. The blend then consisted of ex-bourbon casks aged for
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Review #1372; Rum #675 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. Here we have a bottle of rum from Hampden Estate. This is rum made from molasses and distilled on those famous
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Review #1371; Rum #674 Equidem is another bottling in the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series, number 27 in this case. This rum is a blend of pot and column molasses distillate. Part of the rum was matured for 5 years in ex-bourbon and another 9 years in ex-Black Muscat casks. It was then bottled at a
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Review #1370; Rum #673 Here we have a bottling of rum from Cheramie, a 100% fresh pressed cane juice rum being produced at the Porchjam distillery in New Orleans Louisiana. This rum is a blend of a rum aged in ex-bourbon casks and a portion of the Cheramie unaged Alternative Yeast, which is a blending
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Review #1369; Rum #672 We have here another rum from the Foursquare Exceptional Cask series, the 25th in that line. This is a blend of molasses based rum distilled on pot and column still. One part of that rum aged for 10 years in ex-bourbon before aging for another 4 years in ex-calvados casks. The
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Review #1368; Rum #671 Here we have another new bottling from Cheramie. This rum was distilled from 100% fresh pressed cane juice at the Porchjam distillery in New Orleans Louisiana. This Queen’s Share distillate is a re-distillation of the high congener tails cuts from that years previous runs. The distillate was then rested in ex-bourbon
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Folks here we are again another year, another riveting Rumcast fantasy draft between John and Will of the Rumcast, with guest Arminder from The Rum Revival making his return as the reigning champ. These are my sole thoughts on these as the rum draft expert. I broke down the tape, talked to the coaches, and
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Review #1367; Rum #670 Here we have a new bottling from Cheramie, a product line distilled at the Porchjam distillery located in New Orleans, Louisiana. This rum was distilled from fresh pressed sugar cane juice from cane grown in Louisiana cane fields and distilled on a copper pot still. I’ll link a great article from
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Review #1366; Rum #669 What we have here is a sample of a rum not available commercially or retail sale. Cheramie has produced this rum with an alternative yeast for use in blending. I was able to try some earlier this year but since I happened to get another sample of it I figured I’d
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