This is my Rum Reviews Channel. Here you'll find my Rum Reviews and Rum Tastings...and the odd UK Distillery Tour. I will split my reviews between British Scratch Rums to showcase them and then the big famous Global Brands too. All with the central them of Rums under £50/$60/€60 and how they work in Cocktails.
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My go to. $37 at my local stores.
I prefer the FDC 12, the 7 is good for cocktails.
Hey Steve, you struck a nerve with me on this one and I couldn't let it go for a while... Well, I had like 4oz of Doorly's 12 left in a bottle and decided to make a daiquiri with it to lay it rest. 1oz lime, .5 oz simple, 1.5oz Doorly's, clear pour. My impressions (which could be clouded with your influence on me!) - while drinkable and not bad, the rum overpowers the lime. I would have to say that I may use this rum elsewhere, but not in a daiquiri. I have another unopened bottle, it is perfectly drinkable on its own as a cognac, and I may use it in other cocktails. I can get on sale for about $28.
I bought a 1litre of 12yr old at duty free for $6400 Guyanese dollars around £24 pounds
FDC18 is $50 in LA, personally prefer FDC12
Just discovered Bacoo and made killer Mojitos a few weekends back. What is your opinion about it?
RL Seals 10 year is $27.99 all day long in Texas where the Plantation is around $59.99. RL Seals is the best bang for your dollar at this time between the two!
So the double retort holds wash, vinegar and heads in the main tank, early tails in the first retort, and late tails in the second retort. Making good rum from molasses is HARD!
Tip from a French speaker: As long as you visibly make an effort, your charming enthusiasm will way outweigh any judgment we would have about your accent. Love your channel.
Damn! Just ordered the 12 year old on Amazon for 37€.
I’m betting these days you would probably recommend a St Lucian rum over these?
Just paid $21.99 in California
I ordered a bottle directly after watching this video. That, and a Selección de Maestros. I'm really a whisky sipper but thought it would be nice to have a summery alternative not too complicated for a beginner.
Mixing with Mount Gay XO is a hard call for me on price ($90-100 CAD). I reserve it for sipping (maybe a Corn n' Oil or Rum Fashioned wouldn't feel as wasteful idk). I use the Eclipse for highballs and punches. I think it works really well for those and it's super affordable at $33 CAD (under £20). Then there's the double cask, the Black Barrel, at $60-70 CAD. That's a harder one to mix with at that price, but maybe it's cheaper for you. That's the one you can sip neat much more easily than the Eclipse, standouts in cocktails better like the XO. It is more barrel forward, more oak and none of the cognac of the XO, but that's both a matter of preference and question of whether or not that will show thru in a cocktail. In any case, while you might be looking for one bottle (maybe the Black Barrel is that), the core range exported from Mount Gay is less than $200 CAD (£110) to stock three bottles that each bring something different to a drink or for sipping. If they exported the unaged Silver, I'd say you could probably get away with just having those 4 bottles in your bar and you'd be set! 😂 Edit: I know in more recent videos, you've said your palette has really dried out. I would be curious to see you compare Planation XO and Mount Gay XO again given how much sweeter that Planation/Planteray is.
Very engaged review. And exactly the puzzle I am trying to solve: which Jamaican rum to bring with me on Holiday for a great Mai Tai. I already have a bottle of Clement Canne Bleue. I will go for the Worthy Park 109. But am afraid to miss out on the SC banana funk I so much love.
Myers and o.j. the go to drink. Not sweet and the o.j. cuts the sweetness even more. Why would anyone go looking for bananas in a sugarcane drink? If you want banana put one in and make a cocktail. Just saying.
Rums and Cigars from Cuba are so good that even the cheap ones are better than some expensive foreign brands. The Communist Gov prioritize the quality of this business and they pay well their engineers if not they will leave the country; I have bought this Santiago de Cuba Rum and is superb! My respect to you Sr, great review!
just bought the black tot master reserve 2023, cant wait to taste it!
You left out Siboney 1920 and Red Label
Is the 'Finest St Lucia Rum' (with a mostly white label) the updated version of the 'Original'?
I started out on the Original and really liked it. When I tried the legacy I enjoyed it so much that I have found it hard to drink the original now for some reason. The taste seems different now when trying the original. Maybe my tastes have changed since trying new rums but I definitely would buy the legacy with no hesitation
I absolutely love the Doorly’s 12. It sips like a really smooth bourbon. I love Foursquare, so I need to try Real Mccoy as well. I am down to try ANY brand from Foursquare. Cant go wrong with any brand from them. 🥃
U.S. here... MGXO is $70 where I'm at. But my town is a desert for rum, paid $45 for Appleton 8-year yesterday
Hey Steve. This was my first rum purchase in the US for $20! I came in to Total Wine & More to get Appleton Estate Signature. They were doing tastings and I got to try this and it was on sale. So I saved a few bucks and I’m happy!
Appleton 12 is my preference as I am a whiskey drinker. The 8 year is good too but I’ll stick with the 12 year. Cheers!
How similar is this on flavour profile to the epices creoles? I have tried the vsop, xo and creole and love rhum jm
Tate & Lyle sugar is from Cane not beet , Silverspoon and whitworths are from beet
Yes, the molasses actually comes from British Sugar, so silver spoon.
Mount Gay Eclipse was my go-to mixer for a very long time until I did a blind taste test of all my bottles under $30. I was taken aback at how poorly it faired. Won't ever purchase again given how much I enjoyed Appleton Signature, FdC no.7, and Don Q in the same price range.
Rum and ginger beer is the way to do it
Steve, what are your measurements for your Rum & Coke and Mai Tai for comparing different rums? I would like to host a tasting gathering. Thank you.
After your less than stellar experience with Tanduay Gold, I am very happy that you chose Tanduay Double Rum as your next choice for Filipino rums. I skipped the Gold, based on reviews and went straight to the Double Rum. Filipino rums aren't that great overall, but the Double Rum is phenomenal. The extra aging is a game changer. A perma-stock for me. Probably the best Filipino rum there is.
Plantaton 5 yr i get here in the states for 30 USD, basically use it in all my non white rum cocktails
But the Plantaray website is like sticking a red hot poker in your bum, and spinning it a high speed, It’s the same as how Frenchman pick their CEO’s
Plantaray website blows dead bears,
I’m thinking colon
Blows the website is unusable. It sucks dblows donkeys
Plantation/planararay website sucks shit
Why is the new Planteray Website a piece of shit, French owners. ?
Why is the new Planteray Website unusable , is it another thing we can say is French
Why is the Planteray website so shitty and unuseable
Steve, what are your thoughts on Havana Club’s Cuban Spiced rum? Is it on the level of Bacardi Spiced? Apparently they made it with pineapple and toasted coconut. It’d be interesting, but I am hesitant to purchase.
I enjoyed sipping with you mate!
Can you advice which is the best Demerara Rum in your humble opinion - for cocktails not neat?
Rum fire a week or so after its opened really opens up in taste and blows away rum bar and Wray neat. Wray is a must have Wray & Ting. RumBar hasn’t grown on me just yet im still trying to figure out where it fits for me.
Have you tried B13 rum?
I really like your honest reviews. They often help me make definitive decisions about buying.
I am going to try this rum 🍹 but I saw a price around 30 bucks 🇺🇸 and I saw a similar bottle for 169 dollars. I don’t know if it’s the same our a step up bottle. I love that you always have shirts 👕 that says vacation lol 😂
Watching this while tasting both. I have to say I prefer the Appleton 8 which I feel has more character, I like the fruity banana vibes and it punches out more. The extra wood is evident in the 12 but I feel it's more mellow and has less character about it. More of an after dinner sipper maybe. I still prefer the 8 to have neat.
The Denizen Merchants Reserve was created in a collaboration with Martin Cate of Smugglers Cove fame. It’s still the Mai Tai rum of choice for Smugglers Cove😊
In the rum ZONE my man