Dark Rums - Tiki Drinks and Food

P PalmtreePat Tiki Socialite Los Angeles, CA Joined: Oct 07, 2014 Posts: 360	P PalmtreePat Posted posted on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 12:26 PM On 2015-02-11 08:04, JenTiki wrote: 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. Interesting. Is -that- the defining feature of dark jamaican? The caramel? I see lots of "dark" rums from other places, but their color is more amber, probably just from being in the cask. "Dark Jamaican" rums always seem to be verging on opaque and almost black in color, which I assumed was from the addition of a little bit of molasses, but it was actually caramel?

On 2015-02-11 08:04, JenTiki wrote:

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.

Interesting. Is -that- the defining feature of dark jamaican? The caramel? I see lots of "dark" rums from other places, but their color is more amber, probably just from being in the cask. "Dark Jamaican" rums always seem to be verging on opaque and almost black in color, which I assumed was from the addition of a little bit of molasses, but it was actually caramel?

Post #737169 by PalmtreePat on Wed, Feb 11, 2015 12:26 PM