Post #608087 by Kahuna Kevin on Mon, Sep 26, 2011 12:40 AM

On 2011-09-24 14:26, djmont wrote:
p.s. I didn't intend my post to be disparaging of anyone else's point-of-view, so if it was, I apologize.

I'm on my 3rd daiquiri, I think.

No need to apologize. When writing my cocktail books I have no choice but to over simplify by breaking things down to a rum's country of origin, color (white, gold, amber, dark) and suggested brand names - aka the original rum brands I used to create the cocktails. It's not ideal, and I agree there are as many rum variations as species on Earth, but this simplification allows anyone from the most knowledgeable rum-head to the average public with absolutely zero rum/bar-tending experience visually grab a bottle of X gold rum and mix with Y amber rum and Z dark rum. In most cases it works fine when substituting. I do stress in bold that readers do their own research prior to substituting, vs blindly dumping in another rum, as one rum to the next can be a night and day flavor profile.