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silvergoose posted:Thanks for posting this! I tried some of the Mount Gay extra old a while back (my Dad was at a conference in Barbados and brought a bottle back) and loved it, so I got a bottle for myself. On the other hand, that's basically the only rum I've had other than some Eclipse once, so this will be excellently helpful in figuring out what other types/bottles I might want to get when I'm not filling out my Scotch and bourbon shelf. Have to say Dark 'n Stormies is a fantastic drink: The key is to add spices to the Ginger beer .... You can use any rum you want if you are going to add your own spice mix. Otherwise you want something old and dark. eg Ron Zacapa. Otherwise you could go for a non-traditional choice and go a white rum of which the best one I've ever had is Oronoco. But as sacrilegious as it may seem to be to say, the world's best rum actually comes from Australia. Way back before there was an Australian dollar and before Australia used the British Pound as currency, the legal tender in Australia was RUM! Australia produced "Inner circle rum" which was not sold to the public but was made available by invitation of the management of the "Colonial Sugar Refinery" only. The top quality rum was the "Green dot Director's Special"... The Green dot has set the record for the highest sever score given at the International Wine and Spirit Competition. Check from the list below: http://www.robsrum.com/Rums.html
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Kenning posted:Yeah Barbancourt and Zaya are definitely on different poles of the rum spectrum. I get why Zaya's so popular, and it's a respectable rum, but I'd probably only buy it on a steep discount because it's a little bit too sweet and too vanilla for me. It's a great thing to use on people who either don't like spirits at all, or who you're trying to wean off of lovely spiced rums. Very affordable for the quality, too. For Green Dot: Try here (nicks stock it and do international orders): http://www.nicks.com.au/Product/View/Inner-Circle-Green-Dot-Over-Proof-Rum-(700ml)/474412 or here for a list of other places you can get it: http://www.wine-searcher.com/wine-134959-0000-inner-circle-green-dot-rum-queensland-australia Chancellors Cellars also stock it and do international orders - but they are overpriced: http://www.wine-searcher.com/merchant/4328?wine_id_F=3706351&from_page_F=WSL Also note that Green dot was made publicly available in 1970 (anything prior to that date you could buy a house with) and CSR sold Inner Circle in 1986 so anything before 1986 is highly collectable.
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Cpt.Wacky posted:So, how about bottom-shelf rums? My town is pretty much a Bacardi wasteland since privatization but each store has it's own variety of cheap-as-poo poo rum. Under $15 retail (not including insane WA spirits taxes) we've got: Lewis and Clark, Monarch, King's Bay, Potter's, Montego Bay, Barbarosa, Kozi Bay, Trader Vic's, Cruzan, Shellback and Admiral Nelson. I've got the Cruzan Aged and it's not terrible at all so I'll try the Black Strap version soon. But the rest of them seem like a total crapshoot and finding anything on the web about them is hit and miss. As some say in Straya .... Bundy on - but then Bundy is almost as expensive as Green Dot- $30-40 per bottle. But watch out for the drop bears. Bundy works unless your mission is to get teenage girls drunk for which you must use Bacardi. Rum really isn't cheaper than that over here.
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