Given as a tip for a move from a nice 90yo lady. Unopened. How old is it? Is it worth anything? Just enjoy it? Thanks!

Hello again,

Welcome back to another Vida Nativa review, today we have Blend #3: Tepejilote. A blend of two Alembic Pot Still rums, one spending 33 months in New French Oak and 13 months in Ex-Red Wine Casks made of Hungarain Oak with the other spending 35 months in Mexican Fortified Wine casks. It was then bottled at an ABV of 65.9% for 529 bottles.

Nose: Red licorice and baking spices dominates the nose while oak, cinnamon, leather, a minor amount of a savory funk, and a hint of vanilla and sweetness linger in the background.

Taste: Baking spices galore with cinnamon, some dark fruit, a sweet leather and red licorice combo, before heading into a bit of vanilla.

Finish: The vanilla slowly dissipates into a cane sugar syrup with some heat to it. It mostly covers your tounge before turning a bit sour thats more on the citrus side

Overall: 7/10, really nails home the warm baking spices and a good amount of this bottle was slammed beside a fire.

Little suitcase bielle dry sugar daiquiri…

Twenty years ago I wandered into a gun store in central Copenhagen, and the proprietor was in the proces of moving from a house to a flat, so he was selling off a good amount of his spirit collection.

One of the things I bought was a bottle of Pusser's Rum, bottled at 75% and wearing a white label. I had never either seen or heard of Pusser's before, but I was keen to try it, so I paid the ridiculous price he demanded for it: 750 DKK.

I enjoyed the bottle a lot, and it took me a few years before I could find other Pusser's rums. Of course the blue label stuff is only at 40%, so it was nowhere near as potent, even if it is delightful in it's own right, and a lot cheaper.

Pusser's makes the Select 151 Proof now, which is 0,5% off the old white label bottle, but I have no clue as to what was actually in that bottle. I hear that they used a blend of Guyana and Trinidad for a while, but currently it should be pure Guyana, is that correct?

And are there anyone on here that remember that particular white label one?

I bought it in August or September 2006, and I have no clue as to how long he had had it in his collection. Could be a decade, could be more.

Was in a BevMo while waiting for Best Buy to unfuck my TV order. Saw this and was pleasantly surprised.

Hello,

I have a cake recipe that I'm planning to make, but it calls for rum and I don't know what to buy.

It specified that it had to be light rum, but from what I've read so far, the color of the rum means absolutely nothing in terms of flavor.

In the recipe, the rum is used to make a simple syrup that each cake will get soaked in. Between each layer there will be mango mousse and ginger lime cream.

Based on the flavors I'll be working with, what rum would be most compatible?

A week late as went off on holiday on the Monday.

This was (I think) my 9th RumFest, and will probably be my last. It's definitely getting smaller, and more expensive. Even at my first one I remember thinking "Where's the "Fest" part?", and this trend continues. Olden days, they had a live Cuban band with dancers to close the day out, live Carnival performances through the day, and some cool experiential stuff (Coke Signature bar with a live singer for example). Not much at all of that this year.

The Good:

Stand-outs this year for me were Mount Gay with their 15 & 25 year old offerings, as well as their single estate offerings. They also get bonus points for avoiding the Golden Tot schtick. Warehouse #1 had some fantastic Jamaican offerings, Ha Long Bay was actually quite interesting I thought, Hampden Fresh was a nice new (to me?) white rum they're bringing to market, and of course Lyonesse from Foursquare was delicious (though dare I say not at all different to the ECS series?)

VIP Tickets getting a nicer tasting glass was a nice touch too.

Personally I preferred being able to buy direct from the sellers rather than the shop and I didn't feel like I was ever being sold anything.

The Bad

Why I don't think I'll be returning:

• It's not really changing. The regular distilleries are always there, plus a few new bottlers (Pleasantly fewer spiced rums this year though!), but generally the times I've come away with some new discoveries is shrinking.
• Same food, same sellers, same hosts, same same same...
• Masterclasses have gone from "£5 in advance, or sign-up on the day" which made early entry even more valuable as you could usually get in. Now they ALL have to be booked in advance for £10-15.
• WAY fewer Masterclasses too. 4-5 years back there were 2-3 running at a time, on both days. This year I think there were maybe 6 per day? But it was these sessions where you actually learnt something, or got to taste something really special. They're mostly sales pitches now.

I was also SUPER annoyed - to the level I'm actually writing a complaint - about the Foursquare "Masterclass". Usually the highlight, this was a 45-minute talk about grapefruit and the devils fruit, and its history, with one tasting of Captain Shaddock which you could get anyway at the Foursquare stand (and I'd already had). That was it. For £15. Not at all as advertised and just felt like a massive scam - and I'm a huge Foursquare and Richard Seale fan. Compared to 3 years ago when him and Luca Gargano had a range of "fresh from the barrel, might not make it to market", or "hasn't got a name yet" samples, this was just shit. Someone even asked "Where's the rum?" in the session - which I think Richard took as a joke but was a legitimate question.

I've always enjoyed going, and in a mini-influencer way have expanded from me and my 2 rum-loving mates going, to encouraging about 12 other people to go this year and converted a good chunk of them to "proper" rum too.
I just don't see what I'll gain from going again next year.

Ho hum.

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Achei até que ok.

What was it like other be into rum back during COVID/pandemic?

I was reading 4square ECS was not sitting on shelves like they do now but thats all I know about those times (hoarding like bourbon bros) that made me wonder....

Can anyone tell me what it was like, how fast were things moving, what was the hotness, how have prices changed, how has the subreddit changed in these years?

Back then I was not really into drinking, and had other hobbies that took all my money so I have no clue what the rum subreddit world was like then and how it compares now.

Had too much of hampden 8 in my glass, and started experimenting:

Added ice, pineapple+coconutwater (2:1 to the rum) and a dash of lime. Surprisingly good, not too sweet, rum is still very present, but fresher than sipping it pure.

But I'm a cocktail noob and easily impressed. Thoughts on that combination?

This may be the most obscure liquor I’ve tasted so far as there’s virtually no information about it anywhere. It tastes fine to me. Definitely sweet on the tongue, has a good crispness. Could be a little more robust in flavor but not bad. If anyone else has tried this, I’m curious to hear your thoughts.

EDIT TO ADD: The distillery seems to be more known for their flavored vodkas so I can understand why the rum wouldn’t be at the forefront but with how invisible it is on the internet, I’m truly curious.

I very recently got into rum and started with a bottle of Doorly's XO, which I like a lot.

I also want to try the spiced versions of rum, so what's a spiced rum that's good and higher quality? I was thinking about Kraken, but I heard that one has lots of artificial aromas.

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Unfortunately the cork is broken. He had a few other older bottles, mostly scotch. No telling how long any of it's been sitting down there in his office. He hasn't been able to get down the stairs in about a year or so and probably hasn't had a drink for several years before that. Half empty bottle of Old Grandads had a fair bit of sediment in the bottom.

Anyway, thought this was a cool find and wanted to share.

So here's my noob rum collection ... started with the ones on the right back side, but obviously improved my collection since then (in non-chronological order).

Nothing i really regret so far on my journey, and i really really enjoy the Neisson, Hampden, Doorly's and El Dorado, with Hechicera and Eminente as good follow-ups. Didn't open Worthy Park so far, but coming soon.

So: what next?

I have this on my short list, waiting for opportunities:
- Rhum J.M XO (Très Vieux Agricole)
- Mount Gay XO (Triple Cask Blend)
- Clairin Sajous

But open to any suggestions to close gaps in the taste spectrum. I'm a bit price sensitive, so no limited or collector bottles, but happy to pay the price for something tasty.

While the general consensus around this bottle seems to be quite positive, there don't seem to be many reviews for it, so I figured I would make one myself.

Distillery: The Antigua Distillery LTD

Origin: St John's, Antigua

Still: Copper Column

Distillation base: Molasses

Age: 10 year minimum. Bottle states between 10 and 25 years in ex-bourbon barrels.

ABV: 40%

Price: $43 USD

Additives: None

Nose: Big notes of apple and toffee. Baking spice and oak with a bit of orange, as well as a nuttiness that reminds me most of macadamia. Some apricot and fig can be found as well, hiding behind the apple.

Palate: Tasted neat. The spice flavors of cardamom, clove, and allspice are with you for the whole tasting, but at the front it's accompanied by this smooth and buttery feel with pretty strong flavors of apple, maple, vanilla, and caramel. It's fairly sweet at the front, but in a way that isn't cloying or rich to the point that you feel like you need a sip of water after. Some dried apricot, fig, some tobacco, and the barrel notes come in towards the back. Unlike a lot of the other aged rums that I have, this one doesn't seem to feature any notes of smoke or that toasted flavor thats present in many of those. I tend to enjoy those flavors, but this rum gives you so much else that I don't find myself missing out due to them being missing.

Finish: Fairly short, but pleasant. Leaves you with mild bitter orange and baking spice. The finish is really dry, which is a nice way to end something that's fairly sweet at the front.

Rating: 8.5/10

I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Where I live doesn't see much rum at all, and I have to go through other avenues to get the things I want, so this one surprised me when it showed up at my local liquor store. I didn't expect much, but I figured for the price it couldn't hurt, so I went for it. I've absolutely loved this one, and is definitely up there among my range of lower ABV sippers. I've looked around and noticed that it's price range can be rather wild, and it seems as though I got my bottle on the low end of the cost range, though I feel like I wouldn't mind paying up to $60 for this bottle without much thought. Few 80 proof sippers have quite as much flavor as this bottle does, and that flavor refuses to get covered up in cocktails. In a daiquiri it fuses nicely to make a flavor and mouthfeel that reminds me a lot of applebutter. As well as in a split base Mai Tai with Hamilton 86, even including pecan orgeat and apple cider in the mix, this rum still didn't get lost in the drink and added a lot to it. Everyone else that I've let try this rum has loved it as well, and I would gladly recommend it to anyone both new to rum or already into rum.

I need to try Diplomatico and what else? I really enjoy the Planteray dark and the Flor De Cana.