Post #353529 by arriano on Mon, Jan 7, 2008 6:19 PM

Trying to decide what rums I would need to be able to make most of the recipes in Jeff Berry's books, I decided to take an evening and inventory all the rums mentioned in all the recipes of all four of his books. And here are the results for others so they don't have to go to the trouble:

Puerto Rican white: 91
Jamaican dark: 66
Puerto Rican gold: 31
Demerara: 25
Demerara 151: 22
Jamaican gold: 21
Bacardi 151: 13
Martinique: 10
Virgin Islands amber: 10
Barbados: 9
Barbancourt: 6
Puerto Rican dark: 4
Louisiana: 2
Coconut flavored: 2

I'm sure many out there have a preference for what rum to use for what category. But it showed me that with 6 or 7 rums I could make a majority of the recipes.