Don Q

In anticipation for today's bbq I bought a bottle of white rum to make mojitos with. I find it to be much better than any Barcardi product and the price is right. Homemade simple syrup and fresh mint makes the mojito pretty tasty.

another great rum...
Dos Maderas 5 + 5

suggested to me by the MIA brother pdxstogieman (Chuck)
originates in either Guyana or Barbados and then goes to Jerez, Spain for more barrel aging.

also make a 5 + 10 but I have never seen it.

Not a head snapper Jamie, but maybe just enough heat to keep you interested.

He made me look like president of the Karl Rove fan club.
I do miss him though.

that rum might be a touch too sweet for ya, but it's a great one for me.

Plasma I walk across the border and buy it now. I'm almost out too and need to make a trip.

you're alive?
Cool!


Plasma...funny.

Cher was on Kimmel last night!

Re: Rum
Kohana Hawaiian Agricole Rum.

I'm gonna have to garner some constraint and apportion this high end beautiful nectar to make it last.
Not for beginners. Not that it's too powerful or anything, but this is stuff you learn to "get". It could take your breath away...and the bottle is a stunning decanter that I will repurpose once empty.

Great find Conan, truly appreciating the experience.

Pampero Anniversario Reserva Exclusiva neat, of course
one of my very favorites.

Venezuela makes some good rums

and I'm a half a bottle into it, which may explain my political posts tonight...

The only place I could find Plantation has dried up completely.

Balcones Rumble...been a long time between bottles.

is it whiskey? Is it rum?
Neither really.

of all the sweet style rums, this has to be a top 3.

Zafra rum master reserve 21 year old rum aged in ex Bourbon casks.

Life is to short to drink bad booze. I normally dislike rum. This on the other hand is a WOW to me. Well worth $50 for a fifth. It is from Panama.

buffalo.

Bumbu

Pusser’s Rum

finished off a bottle last month. posted it up here and in the whiskey threads...don't know the right category but I do enjoy it.
Mike, you ever tried Balconies Rum? Buckle up!

I think a spirit all it's own, based on ingredients

Smith and Cross traditional Jamaican rum. Decent ester funk but the over proof has a bit of the mass produced nail polish taste. Still a good one, but nowhere near Lost Spirits Navy or the long gone Plantation 2001 Jamaican rum

They moved to LA and kinda got hard to find on their offerings.

Oh boy

found myself in a Trader Joe's that carries booze. Took a flyer on a bottle of $8 rum...Rum of the Gods.
had 3 or 4 fingers wif a smoke, and as expected found it pleasant enough but light, more suited as a mixer which is not normally what I do with rum.

so I mixed the next one with Plantation overproof, and now I'm drinking rum.

Diplomatico Ambassador

Real McCoy 12yr 80pf was on sale for $20 bucks in the closeout section at my local. Bought one, went home had first glass. Next day bought the other 2 on the shelf. I wish it were higher proof, but this stuff is good. For the money, it might be the best value in spirits I've found yet. There are limited/special edition releases from Real McCoy that have higher proof. I'm going to keep any eye out. Real McCoy is made in Barbados by Foursquare. They also make doorly's. I think I'm in love with RIchard Seale and Foursquare products.

Has anyone else had any from the foursquare line? Any reccomendations for similar, no added coloring or sugar rums? Preferably cask strenght?

And lastly.... anyone that has a local liquor store carrying Hamilton St. Lucia Ministry of Rum and Caribbean Spirits, apparently this stuff has just recently been discontinued. St Lucia distillers group has stopped selling to this independnt bottler and it maybe years before this stuff makes it back to the US. Buy buy buy! Heading up to indy to snag a few bottles I hope on Tuesday.

Botran 15 solera...Guatemala

ran out of expensive scotch, eh?

HA!