Post #249611 by mbanu on Fri, Aug 18, 2006 6:55 AM

On 2006-08-04 14:39, thejab wrote:
So, I ask: What is the second best inexpensive dark rum? Myers's? Whaler's? Trader Vic's? (they make two different ones). Black Strap?

And another question: Couldn't one use Cruzan Dark Rum (what they call their "gold rum")? It's very dark for a gold rum. Try this: pour Cruzan dark into a shot glass, and Myers's (or Coruba) into another glass. They are about the same "darkness".

Shouldn't a dark rum be rich and full-bodied, rather then just dark and one dimensional?

Well, it depends on what you're using it for. "Dark rum" is sloppy shorthand a few different potential styles of rum.

It can stand for an extra-aged but light-bodied rum (something like Bacardi 8 ), it can stand for an extra-aged heavy-bodied rum (a good Jamaican/Demerara), or it can stand for any heavy-bodied rum regardless of age.

Which recipes are you trying to use it in?

[ Edited by: mbanu 2006-08-18 06:56 ]