Looking for a generic answer does not seem to make much sense. What people seem to forget is the fact that tropical aging is about twice faster than continental aging, which already creates a significant spread. A rum aged on Barbados for five years may have similar cask influence as a rum aged in England for 10 years. I have noticed Jamaican-style Plummer and Wedderburn high-ester rum (same stock...

Seems Jamaica is very progressive with woman jobs (sorry, I'm from Switzerland) and it reminds me of Joy Spence....

Rene, It fits in both places! It’s great sipping neat and probably one of the best and most used high quality mixer rums. Cause you’d like it I’m sure you will love the Rum Fire and the Rivers Antoine if you can find them....

Thanks Andy! However, I just tried to add two of these pictures and saw no means of doing so....

Romantic, Yes, the independent bottlers sells often very good and special rum, but I think they oftenly is too expensive. If I want pot still rum I buy rum from Worthy Parks or Hampdens own range and if I want Navy rum I buy Pusser’s. About EBay, Yes, I have made a couple of good purchases from there. For example one bottle of English Harbour Extra Old for just €60. The only one that’s for sa...

I am always intrigued by the commenatry on flavors.  It is sweet or spicy, good or bad in my book.  I have had some really expensive rums and I am still apparently clueless in this department. ...

Francesco, Unfortunately can we just dream of that the producers, especially those who produce Spanish styled rum, will be honest and write out everything on the label. The only way to get to know about added sugar is to make hydrometer tests by oneself, cause many of the results on the web aren't valid anymore since the relatively new EU regulations....

To each its own. Ive drank a lot of whisky and rum. Both of them have equal capacity to be taken seriously or not. It is true that we all have different tastes and opinions. However, it's discourteous to attempt to project your opinions on others. ...

I recommend buying a solid overproof like Wood's Navy Rum, or Pusser's Gunpowder and cook with that, you need less due to the concentrated flavor and aroma, and it provides plenty of that "rummy" punch. ...

If you want something made as it was done centuries ago you should try to find a bottle of “Rivers Antoine Royal Grenadian Rum” which is more or less done the same way as when they started up 1785. The cane is crushed in a water driven mill. They use copper pot stills. It’s wild fermented and they don’t have any temperature control. Finally they take the distillate directly to a cooler, dilute i...

Thank you, Stefan and Vomi! Much obliged!...

Sorry, but don't waste your time with this question. The only rum in my lifetime (long time ago, I was young and unexpired) I got a headache from. Taste it once and forget it. ...

There is a new podcast with Christelle Harris: The Modern Era of Hampden "Introducing the world to the first rums aged at Hampden, becoming friends with Richard Seale, the infamous Luca Gargano story, the Great House releases, Hampden’s endemic bird series, some exciting news for Hampden fans in the U.S., and more" https://www.rumcast.com/episodes/hampden-estate-rum-christelle-harris The last h...

You can edit to your hearts content....

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Paul, the smart phone is nearly as capable as any home computer these days, especially if you consider the photography, spreadsheet and document apps available. Whether it’s easy to use in comparison is another matter entirely! I do all my rating and reviews on the phone simply because it’s easy to use the app, especially with the most recent updates. As for updates, I’ve changed nearly a...

The basics are mentioned here: https://www.liquor.com/articles/how-to-store-whiskey/ I use also parafilm to seal the caps even more. "3. Keep Them Upright We’ve all been there: You’re excited to open that special bottle, you peel off the plastic and lift of the cork, and it crumbles and breaks off. Keeping the cork immersed in a high-ABV spirit will make it disintegrate. This situation is easi...

RumGuy, Well, these cognacs should be OK because it's XO, but it's cognac from the big houses and is overpriced in my opinion. I prefer cognac from the small houses like Hine or Delamain made from grapes from Grande Champagne. About Agricole I would say that they differ quite a lot. I haven’t tasted any from outside the Caribbean so I don’t have any opinion about them. The Barbancourt fro...

@Rene Rum Well, I must say I have never thought about diluting a whole bottle - because once you overdilute, there is no way back, and because overproof rum lasts longer, ethanol is its own preservative, and because in the moment of dilution, the aromatic compound forced out of the alcoholic solution amplify the scent of the rum - and you don't want to lose that moment. That's why absinthe is sol...

No problem, it's a Hampden mark. HLCF -> Hampden Light Continental Flavoured -> 500-700 esters in g/hlaa. It describes the ester content. High ester content in rum leads to more fruit and more acid flavors. https://singlecaskrum.com/countries/jamaica/hampden This mark is very good, it's balanced but also fruity....

ElD is always a mystery, they keep their secrets. They have new packaging, also in Europe, but still with 43%. I think there is no market with supply of two versions. Each market gets its own version. EU 43% and US 40%. Was the 40% ElD as sweet as the old version? https://www.weisshaus.de/details/el-dorado-rum-15-yo-43-vol.-0-70l...

Omitchell: Which one of their rums are you referring to? The white or the spiced? I tried their spiced rum about a year ago and rated it as a 5. I found 17 spiced rums that I like better and 12 spiced rums that are even worse than this one. Needless to say, I never even bothered to try their white rum....

I received an order from Whiskey exchange about two weeks ago, everything was fine. Lead time is longer than usual, about 3 weeks. Best of luck! AJ...

Try a so called "Carajillo" recipe. Very good with very sweet rums like Amazona Dulce Mallorca. ...

kudzey: Bacardi quit making their 151 rum some time ago because it was not selling. Therefore, almost any discontinued item will possibly become a collector's item even if it was crap. When it came to collecting vinyl records, if an album was crap, then few copies were made and never to be seen again. I have some music CD's that are total crap, but used copies are going for hundreds of dollars....

Looking for a generic answer does not seem to make much sense. What people seem to forget is the fact that tropical aging is about twice faster than continental aging, which already creates a significant spread. A rum aged on Barbados for five years may have similar cask influence as a rum aged in England for 10 years. I have noticed Jamaican-style Plummer and Wedderburn high-ester rum (same stock...

Seems Jamaica is very progressive with woman jobs (sorry, I'm from Switzerland) and it reminds me of Joy Spence....

Rene, It fits in both places! It’s great sipping neat and probably one of the best and most used high quality mixer rums. Cause you’d like it I’m sure you will love the Rum Fire and the Rivers Antoine if you can find them....

Thanks Andy! However, I just tried to add two of these pictures and saw no means of doing so....

Romantic, Yes, the independent bottlers sells often very good and special rum, but I think they oftenly is too expensive. If I want pot still rum I buy rum from Worthy Parks or Hampdens own range and if I want Navy rum I buy Pusser’s. About EBay, Yes, I have made a couple of good purchases from there. For example one bottle of English Harbour Extra Old for just €60. The only one that’s for sa...

I am always intrigued by the commenatry on flavors.  It is sweet or spicy, good or bad in my book.  I have had some really expensive rums and I am still apparently clueless in this department. ...

Francesco, Unfortunately can we just dream of that the producers, especially those who produce Spanish styled rum, will be honest and write out everything on the label. The only way to get to know about added sugar is to make hydrometer tests by oneself, cause many of the results on the web aren't valid anymore since the relatively new EU regulations....

To each its own. Ive drank a lot of whisky and rum. Both of them have equal capacity to be taken seriously or not. It is true that we all have different tastes and opinions. However, it's discourteous to attempt to project your opinions on others. ...

I recommend buying a solid overproof like Wood's Navy Rum, or Pusser's Gunpowder and cook with that, you need less due to the concentrated flavor and aroma, and it provides plenty of that "rummy" punch. ...

If you want something made as it was done centuries ago you should try to find a bottle of “Rivers Antoine Royal Grenadian Rum” which is more or less done the same way as when they started up 1785. The cane is crushed in a water driven mill. They use copper pot stills. It’s wild fermented and they don’t have any temperature control. Finally they take the distillate directly to a cooler, dilute i...

Thank you, Stefan and Vomi! Much obliged!...

Sorry, but don't waste your time with this question. The only rum in my lifetime (long time ago, I was young and unexpired) I got a headache from. Taste it once and forget it. ...

There is a new podcast with Christelle Harris: The Modern Era of Hampden "Introducing the world to the first rums aged at Hampden, becoming friends with Richard Seale, the infamous Luca Gargano story, the Great House releases, Hampden’s endemic bird series, some exciting news for Hampden fans in the U.S., and more" https://www.rumcast.com/episodes/hampden-estate-rum-christelle-harris The last h...

You can edit to your hearts content....

I follow these blogs: https://singlecaskrum.com/ http://thelonecaner.com/ https://www.rumrevelations.com/ https://barrel-aged-mind.blogspot.com/ https://barrel-aged-thoughts.blogspot.com https://www.rumcask.com/the-rum-barrel-alexandru-marius-sandu-2/ https://thefatrumpirate.com/ https://in-spiritus-veritas.blogspot.com/...

Paul, the smart phone is nearly as capable as any home computer these days, especially if you consider the photography, spreadsheet and document apps available. Whether it’s easy to use in comparison is another matter entirely! I do all my rating and reviews on the phone simply because it’s easy to use the app, especially with the most recent updates. As for updates, I’ve changed nearly a...

The basics are mentioned here: https://www.liquor.com/articles/how-to-store-whiskey/ I use also parafilm to seal the caps even more. "3. Keep Them Upright We’ve all been there: You’re excited to open that special bottle, you peel off the plastic and lift of the cork, and it crumbles and breaks off. Keeping the cork immersed in a high-ABV spirit will make it disintegrate. This situation is easi...

RumGuy, Well, these cognacs should be OK because it's XO, but it's cognac from the big houses and is overpriced in my opinion. I prefer cognac from the small houses like Hine or Delamain made from grapes from Grande Champagne. About Agricole I would say that they differ quite a lot. I haven’t tasted any from outside the Caribbean so I don’t have any opinion about them. The Barbancourt fro...

@Rene Rum Well, I must say I have never thought about diluting a whole bottle - because once you overdilute, there is no way back, and because overproof rum lasts longer, ethanol is its own preservative, and because in the moment of dilution, the aromatic compound forced out of the alcoholic solution amplify the scent of the rum - and you don't want to lose that moment. That's why absinthe is sol...

No problem, it's a Hampden mark. HLCF -> Hampden Light Continental Flavoured -> 500-700 esters in g/hlaa. It describes the ester content. High ester content in rum leads to more fruit and more acid flavors. https://singlecaskrum.com/countries/jamaica/hampden This mark is very good, it's balanced but also fruity....

ElD is always a mystery, they keep their secrets. They have new packaging, also in Europe, but still with 43%. I think there is no market with supply of two versions. Each market gets its own version. EU 43% and US 40%. Was the 40% ElD as sweet as the old version? https://www.weisshaus.de/details/el-dorado-rum-15-yo-43-vol.-0-70l...

Omitchell: Which one of their rums are you referring to? The white or the spiced? I tried their spiced rum about a year ago and rated it as a 5. I found 17 spiced rums that I like better and 12 spiced rums that are even worse than this one. Needless to say, I never even bothered to try their white rum....

I received an order from Whiskey exchange about two weeks ago, everything was fine. Lead time is longer than usual, about 3 weeks. Best of luck! AJ...

Try a so called "Carajillo" recipe. Very good with very sweet rums like Amazona Dulce Mallorca. ...

kudzey: Bacardi quit making their 151 rum some time ago because it was not selling. Therefore, almost any discontinued item will possibly become a collector's item even if it was crap. When it came to collecting vinyl records, if an album was crap, then few copies were made and never to be seen again. I have some music CD's that are total crap, but used copies are going for hundreds of dollars....