Review #1421; Rum #720 This is a bottling of rum from Renaissance distillery which is located in Taiwan. This is a blend of 2 casks of rum , both distilled from local molasses and on a pot still after 12 days of fermentation. Cask #16248 is a 7 year first fill Oloroso sherry cask while […]
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Review #1420; Rum #719 Here we have a bottle of rum from Taiwan distillery Renaissance. This rum was distilled from Taiwanese molasses that fermented for 12 days with dunder. It was then distilled on a Charentais Pot Still twice and put into a new American oak cask with Char IV for 4 years. It then
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Review #1419; Rum #718 This is a bottling of rum from Renaissance distillery located on Taiwan. This rum was distilled from molasses made from Taiwan sugarcane. It fermented for 15 days with dunder and was double distilled on a Charentais pot still. It aged for a time in first fill WLW ex-bourbon casks before being
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Review #1418; Rum #717 Here we have a bottle of rum from Alambique Serrano, who bottles rums from the Krassel family distillery in Mexico. This rum was aged for at least 3 years after being fermented in pine tanks with wild yeast from fresh pressed cane juice and distilled on a pot still. It aged
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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 #1417; Rum #716 This is a 9 year aged rum from Stark Spirits, located in Pasadena, California. This rum was distilled from molasses on
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Review #1416; Rum # 715 This rum comes to us from dependent bottler Velier, bottled under the National Rum of Jamaica label. This rum was distilled from molasses at Long Pond in Jamaica where it aged for 12 years in ex-bourbon casks. It was then bottled at cask strength with no additives and an ester
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Review #1415; Rum #714 This is a batch of pure single rum from the Long Pond distillery in Jamaica bottled by dependent Italian bottlers Velier. This rum was made from molasses fermented with wild natural yeasts, distilled on a pot still, and aged for 18 years in Jamaica before being bottled at high proof with
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The end of the year is fast approaching and thus, I feel the need to tell you what my top rums of 2025 were. The rules are simple, I look at all the rums I’ve tried this year and pick my 10 favorites that I wrote a review for during 2025. Pretty simple rules, now
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Review #1414; Rum #713 Here we have a collaboration between Ed Hamilton of Hamilton rums fame and Beachbum Berry of Tiki and Latitude 29 fame. This is rum blend created to make a one bottle blend intended to be used for a number of tiki cocktails classics, but primarily the Zombie. The end result is
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Review #1413; Rum #712 Here we have one of the latest releases in the Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series Mandamus (an order from a court to an inferior government official to do their job). This is a molasses based rum that was distilled to from a pot and column blend. The rum then aged for 10
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