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  • I've discovered i like rum
  • breninbeener
    Full Member

    During a family trip to Turtle Bay, i discovered i rather like rum.

    Can anyone recommend some rums and where i can buy them?

    mattsccm
    Free Member

    Recommended, but not by purists: 1 pint glass with 1 inch of rum. Nearly as much Vimto.Top up with hot water and take into the bath on a wet cold Sunday lunch time whilst the lunch is being cooked for you. Also works on wet cold evenings

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Which Turtle Bay? There are many….

    My preferred rum is Mount Gay XO. Available from good bottle shops across the UK. Their 1703 is divine, but OTT, really.

    Also good is Chairman’s Reserve, from St Lucia. Often available in Waitrose, conveniently.

    Serving? Large tumbler. Three or four large ice cubes. Splash. Sip. Repeat.

    ulysse
    Free Member

    Woods. Tesco/asda et al

    B.A.Nana
    Free Member

    rumbullion, el dorado 12yo, the kraken, old j, old j tiki fire, doorly’s,

    ulysse
    Free Member

    Stroh, christ knows where you’d get that, the last lot came in a suit case on the way back from Austria
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroh

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Woods. Tesco/asda et al

    This + 1

    The real stuff!

    I have a bottle of Kraken on the go just now, It’s not a patch on Woods Old Navy.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    Kraken.

    jontykint
    Free Member

    My favourite brands are
    Brugal
    Angostura
    Kraken (great in a dark and stormy-try one, it will change your life)!!

    frogstomp
    Full Member

    Found Kraken too sweet, on it’s own. For spiced ‘rums’ Bacardi Oakheart is actually very good.

    jontykint
    Free Member

    Hell, how did I forget Woods !!

    pedropete
    Full Member

    Ron Zacapa from Guatemala. I think someone on here recommended it is some time back & it really is superb.
    In fact I think I’ll have one right now

    jeffl
    Full Member

    Hate to agree with Flashy but Mount Gay XO is lovely.

    ulysse
    Free Member

    Agreed Jeffl

    But Woods is better!

    boltonjon
    Full Member

    I can’t believe its taken you this long!!!!

    [/url]PS_0583W_RUM_PIRATE by boltonjon, on Flickr[/img]

    stanfree
    Free Member

    I recently did an overnight mtb bothy trip and didn’t fancy lugging a rake of beer there. Anyhoo not a spirit drinker I picked a half bottle of old navy rum . I must say I enjoyed it but wasn’t sure what to mix it with. I’ll need to try the mount gay .

    cloudnine
    Free Member

    Mount Gay XO

    ulysse
    Free Member

    Mix? MIX?

    ulysse
    Free Member

    Seriously, mixers are OK with lambs or captain Morgan, but you’ll destroy a good high end drink

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    wasn’t sure what to mix it with

    See above for the only acceptable serving suggestion. Unless you drink that spiced muck. Or, worse still, Bacardi.

    Rum shall be dark. On ice.

    Cougar
    Full Member

    you’ll destroy a good high end drink

    The same is true of any spirit.

    If you’re drinking it with Coke, any old cooking whisky / rum will do. If you’re drinking the nice stuff then it generally shouldn’t be adulterated.

    lovebadger
    Free Member

    Diplomatico… Outstanding 🙂

    You can get it from

    Amazon

    stanfree
    Free Member

    See above for the only acceptable serving suggestion. Unless you drink that spiced muck. Or, worse still, Bacardi.

    Rum shall be dark. On ice.

    Message recieved and understood.

    69er_Gav
    Free Member

    Rumbullion – Another spiced rum but bloody delicious https://www.majestic.co.uk/Rumbullion-zid50808

    ahwiles
    Free Member

    Cockspur, anything less horrible is just a ‘training rum’ for children.

    If it doesn’t taste like wood stain, it’s not really rum.

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    My preferred rum is Mount Gay XO. Available from good bottle shops across the UK

    Chin chin old boy, just about to,top my glass up for another

    rum should be dark, on ice

    , well, dark to golden, see above.

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    Dark as opposed to white rum, Kryters.

    Kryton57
    Full Member

    I knew what was meant.

    But thwre are various shades of dark, one can’t have too much or two little, its all about the molasses, & oak content in the barrel.

    ulysse
    Free Member

    So glad that’s all sorted, now then, the peanuts to go with…

    mattbee
    Full Member

    Pussers. Got a couple of bottles of the old stronger version to work through.

    ulysse
    Free Member

    I can’t believe I’m the only one to recommend Stroh 80…

    Yeah that’s 160% proof evaporating on your tongue taking your breath away 😆

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    Bundy*. Get the OP.

    You can sing, dance, shout, fallover, fight all night on one bottle, and if there’s any left you can run your car on it.

    *Bundaberg Rum, made in Queensland.

    coolhandluke
    Free Member

    23 yr old Ron Zacappa

    Simply splendid. Costco do it for under £40 a bottle.

    ulysse
    Free Member

    How the hell did i forget Bundaberg!!!

    epicyclo
    Full Member

    ulysse – Member
    How the hell did i forget Bundaberg!!!

    Oh, it’s not hard. One bottle does that for me… 🙂

    MicArms
    Full Member

    **** amateurs! Ray and nephew for the win. Closely followed by woods, XO, Bundaberg, rumbullion etc..

    corroded
    Free Member

    Leftfield option – Matusalem 15yr (or the 7yr / Clasico – it’s all good value). Only ever seen in Dubai duty free so I pick up a bottle for a friend when I’m passing through.

    ahwiles
    Free Member

    Stroh, for those who didn’t know, is an Austrian ‘Rum’, I bought some from Graz. The Austrians I spoke to were horrified that we were just going to drink it – they consider it to be more-or-less exclusively an ingredient for baking…

    Wookster
    Full Member

    Mount Gay and tonic….lush and no hangovers! 8)

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