Post #341104 by Scottes on Mon, Oct 29, 2007 5:58 PM

Incidentally, this filtering is also why so many white rums lack flavor. Most are aged - Puerto Rican 1 year, Cruzan 2 years, Flor De Cana 4 years. They get a lot of color from the barrels in that time, but then they filter out the color to get white rum and lose much of the flavor as a result of the filtering. You can thank Don Facundo Bacardi for that - though folks like the Bum and Wayne Curtis have tried Bacardi from 1925 and it was much more flavorful than tonight's white rums.