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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 […]

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

As a rum fan living in America (though only a rum fan for a relatively short time), I have spent more than my fair share of time scrolling longingly through European liquor websites. Europe’s history with rum—the good and the bad—has led to a vast number of independent bottlers, providing a wide variety of releases

While in New Orleans, I had the opportunity to tour another distillery, Roulaison, and spend a few hours with their head distiller, Andrew Lohfeld (also co-founder and CEO). Andrew comes from a craft beer background and previously worked at Kings County Distillery in New York. His business partner, Patrick Hernandez, along with a few other

I’m going to link to a couple of other great resources on Cheramie here from the American Rum Report and The Rum Cast: https://www.americanrumreport.com/blog/cheramie-rum-porchjam-distillery https://www.rumcast.com/episodes/cheramie-rum-jason-zeno Nestled in an industrial-looking section of Mid-City, New Orleans, lies a distillery producing some of the most exciting rum in the United States. However, don’t expect a tasting room or

Hello everyone, thank you once again for joning me in looking at 2024 and the year of rum for me. To refresh everyone on the rules, I take a look back at the rums I tried this year and just put em in a list of 10. The rules are I had to have reviewed

The Third Annual Rum Fantasy Draft Grades Hello folks, Auditor here. Every year, the Rumcast holds its Rum Fantasy Draft, and through a mix of categories and fan voting, a winner is crowned. Like any good fantasy sport, a post-draft, pre-results evaluation is needed, based on highly biased opinions with no journalistic credibility. So today,

In what has become a yearly tradition, I am here looking back on the rums I was fouranate to try during 2023. I felt that this list should be expanded to a full top 10 list. The rules are pretty simple for this list, I had to have tasted and reviewd the rum in the

Similar to our visit to Hampden Estate we decided that we needed to visit Worthy Park Estate, the newest distillery on the island. Coming from Montego Bay, this was a haul in comparison to Hampden Estate. Located in Lluidas Vale in the center of the country, we set out in the morning for the valley

My significant other and I recently had the opportunity to visit Jamaica for vacation. Naturally we had to visit some of the distilleries on the island so I decided to write down about our visit here to Hampden Estate. The journey to Hampden from Montego Bay itself was a journey as our driver navigated narrow