Post #465243 by Alex on Sun, Jun 28, 2009 3:27 PM

Like (apparently) a lot of people, I've been having some trouble finding Demerara rum. Now I've found a way to get hold of two brands: Old Vatted Demerara and Wood's Old Navy Rum, which has "Finest Demerara Cane" written on the label. So now I'm wondering, is Wood's a proper Demerara rum (in the sense that Demerara rums are often spoken of in this forum, as a must-have ingredient), or does it being a "Navy Rum" render it something completely different? I've seen other rums marketed as Navy Rum, but I've never really found out what that means.

More to the point, if I used Wood's in a drink that called for Demerara rum, would you say I was making the drink "proper", or bastardizing it?

EDIT: Had some formatting errors from cutting-and-pasting. Even part of the title seemed to disappear. Sorry about that.

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