Post #737102 by PalmtreePat on Tue, Feb 10, 2015 3:11 PM

I like Coruba the best of all the "dark jamaican rums" I've tried (I usually assume that dark jamaican means a jamaican rum that has had molasses added back to it, based on nothing other than the fact that hamilton's black jamaican pot still is that). I find Myer's to be less fruity than Coruba and more vegetal, almost tequila-like in some ways. I use Coruba pretty much any time that dark jamaican is called for, unless the recipe calls for/recommends a different rum, or I'm making a Jim's Special, since the Tiki-ti specifies that they use Myer's and I find that the tequila-like elements of it go good with whatever reposado I'm using. I'd say to exploit the hell out of the fact that you can get Coruba easily and save the other stuff for situations where it's specifically called for.