Dark Rums - Tiki Drinks and Food

J JenTiki Grand Member (1 year) Home of the best rum collection in NC Joined: Jun 16, 2006 Posts: 2336	J JenTiki Posted posted on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 8:04 AM On 2015-02-10 15:11, PalmtreePat wrote: (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). Actually, it is caramel that is added to Hamilton's Jamaican Pot Still for color, not molasses. Two very different things. I was with Ed at Smuggler's Cove when he actually brought in samples of the caramel he uses and showed us the difference just a drop makes in the color.

On 2015-02-10 15:11, PalmtreePat wrote:
(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).

Actually, it is caramel that is added to Hamilton's Jamaican Pot Still for color, not molasses. Two very different things. I was with Ed at Smuggler's Cove when he actually brought in samples of the caramel he uses and showed us the difference just a drop makes in the color.

Post #737157 by JenTiki on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 8:04 AM