Rum Reviews

  Brugal finds itself in Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic. As you might've guessed, the large "1888" emblazoned on the bottle is the year th...

  We're four releases into the Foursquare - Velier universe (and almost as if to be a time traveller of sorts, as of 2023 there will have been eig...

  Way before the indie bottlers we know today got into rums as the revival of the cane spirit gets underway, lesser known is that several of the w...

  Lime House is a Caribbean focused restaurant in Singapore that houses within it a very well stocked rum centric bar. The restaurant takes its na...

  This Guyana Stock Double Maturation expression of the legendary bygone Trinidadian rum distillery Caroni is a very interesting niche in the Caro...

  The Tortuga set of Caroni's stand out as being one of a select handful of the fabled lost Trindadian distillery's rum bottlings that have been v...

  I'll just come out and say it - these are some of the coolest labels I've seen on rum bottles. Now, bear in mind, unlike whiskies where the labe...

  One of the interesting (and slightly obscure) features of whiskies and rums within the spirits realm is that if you're observant, you'll notice ...

  The Last Ward is a little bit of a mini arc contained in the tapestry of Velier's works - it's like One Piece or Pokemon where in one of those e...

  Mark Reynier, the man behind Renegade Rum, is likely one of the spirits industry's greatest champions. His is a resume that's incredibly difficu...

  In 2022 when the Hampden Pagos was first announced, Pagos to mean "Cru" in Spanish, it certainly raised a brow of interest given the Jamaican di...

  Has it been five years already? Hot damn! I still recall when Hampden had first released their inaugural Great House Edition in 2019, which at t...