Post #467599 by Swanky on Wed, Jul 8, 2009 9:28 AM

I live in TN and have the same problem with supply. My solution has been to get out of state friends who can receive liquor shipments to let me send it to them when they are about to visit. I order a big supply every now and then and get a mule to bring it from FL or GA or SC. THere is usually someone to do that. I am about to do it again as my LH 151 is gone and my 80 proof is about gone.

As for substitution. If you can get El Do, you can probably get El Do 12 year, which is pretty cheap and a good sub for LH. Otherwise, you have to taste around. Try the Barbados Plantation rum. And don't be too picky. Realize that the recipe you have is perhaps an interpretaion of the original. We can't get the rums they used in 1950 to make a Nui Nui or 151 Swizzle. They don't compare. You are not going to "ruin" a drink by substituting. It may be different is all. And, it's probably different even if you had all the ingredients called for. Just pick a nice flavorful, relatively smooth rum. Clement, St. James Ambre, even Appleton VX. Use what you have. The Bum does! At the Hukilau seminar he ends up picking somethign else to go in the drinks than what the recipe calls for.