Rum Reviews

  Background: a mystery sample from /u/soberlytipsy. He told me it is a rum, and it is not from a place totally unfamiliar to me. Here, “a place”...

  Background: from a single cask selected by LMDW. Grand aromes are rums rich in esters, giving them perfume-like qualities. Think of them as the...

  Background: there are multiple 19-year-old single cask bottlings by Kill Devil from the 1998 Bellevue vintage. Going by a.b.v. is one way of di...

    Background: another one of those reviews with short titles. Really, Foursquare OBs are the only rums of which age I don’t bother to indicate ...

  Background: this is the second Masam rum bottling I tried, after the 1992 Hampden. I realised I had not written anything about the bottler in t...

  Background: this is an impulse buy I made when browsing my favourite craft beer shop. I had forgotten my disappointing run-in with a Monymusk s...

  Background: Guyana rums are confusing. There are all these stills that give very different distillates, and all these defunct distilleries thro...

  Background: so, I was forced into a partial lockdown before I could retrieve some precious bottles from my office. I had no choice but to order...

“Madness” arguably encapsulates the world of fine (and I suppose, some not so fine) spirits these days. Heck it could be applied to near everything...

  @nobilisrum is a relatively new Danish independent bottler that began releasing their first rums in late-2020. They made quite an impression wi...

  Scotland isn’t a place we’d usually associate with rum in today’s context, although in a different era, Port Glasgow served as one of the gatew...

  Background: my second rhum agricole, this time from J. Bally, a brand known for their vintage releases, something really quite rare among rum O...