Post #689019 by AceExplorer on Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:36 PM

Yep, thats the point of the thread - what % are you not keen on?

That's hard to answer concisely, but I think I can give you a feel for what I'm doing. I'm moving towards Don Q and Cruzan (retiring any few remaining Bacardi, except Bacardi 8) for what I call my "base" or less-exotic rums. I'm retiring Myers's dark in favor of Coruba. The dilemma, as you noted, is that it can be kinda mean to serve the lower end stuff to people. I always use high-end ingredients with my tiki friends. But there are times when average Joe's visit who cannot appreciate the higher end stuff. Fortunately even the low end stuff tends to work well when paired with fresh juices and accurate measures, and I'm fine with that. And that's where I run into my dilemma -- maybe I need to keep some of my lower-end rums in stock for exactly those situations where high-end stuff is not called for or required.

Percentage wise, I have 35 to 40 rums cataloged at the moment, and there are probably five that I would allow to become depleted So I'm in the 10% to 15% bracket. I have a number of sipping rums that I don't use for mixing. Some of these sipping rums make it into flasks for sipping during the relatively brief northeast Florida winter when temps drop to near-freezing or below. Yum!

There ya go - a long answer to a short question.