Post #527974 by rangda on Tue, May 4, 2010 2:57 PM

sorry the appleton extra is the 12 year old rum which is the dark so im good there :)

I thought your post said V/X which would be more of a gold, but they are both tasty and worth having in any tiki bar.

I read enough to see the orgeat made a huge diff, so i went small hands...but Small Hands wont have grenadine for awhile...

If you are lazy (like me) Trader Tiki orgeat is also excellent, but rolling your own is really good too.

is the ron 3 star puero rican rum worth the extra money compared to cruzan gold when i am going to be mixing it into drinks

I've never had the Ron (don't know of anyplace in MA that carries it and we can't mail order booze) so I wouldn't know but a bottle of Cruzan shouldn't cost more than $12 - $13 so the experiment of trying both wouldn't be that expensive.

that was my big question...seemed like about 10 bucks more but from what i could read it was alot better...i figured i would start off with the good stuff first...is that overkill when mixed up?

I prefer quality ingredients myself so I'm probably a bad person to ask. The only examples I can give are that I can taste a huge difference in Mai Tai's between the St. James Amber & Clement VSOP, and Myers vs. Coruba or Appleton Extra is not subtle. Coruba vs. Appleton Extra is a more subtle but they do have different flavors in most drinks.