Rum

Review #1347; Rum #650 This bottling of rum is a custom blend done for The Inferno Room, a tiki bar located in Indianapolis Indiana (and a personal favorite stop of mine). Doctor Bird is a brand from Two James, a distillery in Michigan that works with Worthy Park distillate. The rum for this blend was […]

Review #1346; Rum #649 Here we have a bottle of rum from Renaissance Distillery which is located in Taiwan. This rum was distilled from molasses that fermented for 15 days and was distilled on a pot still. It is a blend of rum aged in a first fill 200 L ex-bourbon cask and a 225

Review #1345; Rum #648 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. This rum was distilled on a column still from molasses at an unknown distillery in Panama, aged for 20 years in

Review #1344; Rum #647 Blackadder is a European independent bottler known for their Raw Cask series, which usually includes bits of sediment in the bottle (also present in this sample bottle). This rum was distilled at South Pacific Distilleries, aged in Europe before being bottled at cask strength with no additives from a single cask.

Review #1342; Rum #646 This Rhum Agricole comes from the island of Madeira, and was released to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the discovery of the island in 1419. This rum was made from fresh pressed cane juice with wild yeast on a column still and bottled at 59% with no additives. Distillery: William Hinton Bottler: William

Review #1341; Rum #645 Here we have a new to me rum, Monymusk overproof from the Clarendon distillery in Jamaica. This rum is a blend of pot and column distillation from molasses and bottled, like the other great Jamaica overproofs, at a hefty 63% with no additives.   Distillery: Clarendon Bottler: Clarendon Region:  Jamaica Still: Pot & Column ABV: 63%

Review #1340; Rum #644 This is another bottling of rum from Alambique Serrano, that brand the bottles rum from the Krassel brothers distillery in Mexico. This rum comes from the Java sugar cane varietal, distilled in a pot still, was aged in Virgin French Oak casks, and bottled at cask strength with no additives. This

Review #1339; Rum #643 Here we have another bottling form Diplomatico, well known for the divisive (and not looked well upon to put it mildly) by me bottling the Diplomatico Reserva Exclusiva. This is a bottling of their rum that is 100% from their pot still from molasses. It aged for 8 years in ex-bourbon

Review #1335; Rum #640 Review #1338; Rum #642 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. This is a rum from Spain (distillery unknown) that was distilled from molasses on a column still

Review #1336; Rum #641 Here we have a rum that is well known, a starting point for a lot of folks in their rum tasting journey, and a lightning rod. In addition to all that, it serves as a microcosm of rum in general, with a large well regarded brand at one point having the