Post #109461 by LAWebChick on Fri, Aug 20, 2004 11:07 PM

We've picked up a bunch of rums in our hunt for our favorite drink... and now we've run out of shelf space. Yeah, I could build yet another shelf, but the bar is already out of control as it is. Part of the problem is that we have several rums we just don't much like, and they're taking up needed space for the new ones we've been bringing home. The ones we dislike are:

Trader Vic's Authentic Dark (we prefer Myers's)
Saint James Amber (we also have the extra old, but haven't cracked that bottle yet)
Appleton Estate (meh)
Whaler's (again, versus Myers's)

So, does anyone have any suggestions when making tropical drinks out of these? We're tempted to just dump the rest of each bottle into a punch and let our non-tiki friends suck it down (if it's strong enough, they'll like it). So here's the challenge. We'd like to use up the rums we aren't fond of, or even better, we'd like to be proven wrong, that we've just been making the wrong drinks with this stuff. Does anyone have any suggestions? Or do these rums just pretty much suck?

:drink:Our favorites are Mt. Gay, Lemon Hart 80 proof (yummy! and we finally found it again after our friend blew through an entire bottle at a party), Cruzan (light & dark) Myers's, and Rhum Barbancourt. We have no trouble finding recipes for those.

[ Edited by: LAWebChick on 2004-08-20 23:12 ]