Post #719457 by Sunny&Rummy on Fri, Jun 6, 2014 7:58 PM

While I agree with you in principle, TikiTacki, easy, snarky response to "go with the brand identified by name" is: Gordon's? Kina Lillet? Rose's Lime Cordial? Bacardi??

Lots of venerated brands have been reformulated so much over time that now it would be a disservice to a classic cocktail to use the bramds originally called for.

I don't know that this is the case in regard to Myer's, but at the same time I am not convinced of how many truly authentic recipes called for Myer's versus the ilater iterations that called for it because it was the only acceptable alternative available. A look at the mid-century rum ads confirms that there was a great variety of dark Jamaican rums to choose from, like Dagger and A slew of offerings from Wray and Nephew that must have been stellar. I think Myer's was just one of the pack, but as that pack thinned out it bacame the default dark Jamaican rum because there weren't other options.

I cut my rum teeth on Myer's and don't dismiss its usefulness entirely. I'm just not convinced its cough syrup one-dimensionality is representative of what the classic Tiki recipes really used.