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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Review #1412; Rum #711 This rum comes from the Krassel Brothers Distillery in Mexico. This rum was made from fresh pressed cane juice distilled by Axel and William Krassel in the Krassel column still. It then aged for 3 years in new Hungarian oak barrels before being bottled at cask strength with no additives. Distillery: Krassel
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Review #1411 Rum #710 Here we have Foursquare Fidelitas, a collaboration release between Richard Seale of Foursquare and Luca Gargano of Velier. This rum was distilled at the Foursquare distillery from molasses a belnd of pot and column distillate in 2004. This distillate then aged for 19 years in ex-bourbon before ageing for another year
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Review #1410; Rum #709 Here we have another bottling of rum from Renaissance Disitllery in Taiwan. This rum was distilled from molasses, fermented for 10 days with dunder, and was double distilled on a Charentais pot still. It was put into a Noble Rot cask that was shaved, toasted, and charred before aging for 5
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Review #1409; Rum #708 Here we have another rum from Renaissance distillery in Taiwan. This one was distilled from local molasses, fermented for 15 days with no dunder, double distilled on a pot still and aged for 4 years in Noble Rot casks from France before being bottled at cask strength with no additives. Distillery: Renaissance
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