How many different rums in your home bar? - Tiki Drinks and Food

D Dapuma1 Member Joined: May 04, 2010 Posts: 115	D Dapuma1 Posted posted on Mon, May 18, 2015 6:59 PM The 21 year is fantastic, it is my favorite sipping rum You are wasting it mixing though Flor de Cana is a good white mixer (the 4 year) - what do you prefer? I think it is better than cruzan at roughly the same price point Five Banks and Cana Brava are better, however higher price points On 2015-05-12 21:55, KrakenHunterSteve wrote: I just counted and I have at least 86 rums in my collection (not including doubles and back stock). I didn't think it was that many. I think at this point I will always be trying new sippers, and will start culling out my mixers until I have a stable few that are acceptable in most situations. Keepers: El Dorado 3 through 15 (21 is not worth the extra money) Angostura 7, 1919, 1824, no. 1 Plantation 3 on up (I have never had a bad plantation) Lost Spirits polynesian and colonial Pusser's blue and red Diplomatico reserva, Abuelo 12, Don Pancho 18, Gran Matusalem Hamilton Jamaican and Demerara, and the over proof once my lemon hart is gone Clement vsop and blue canne Rhum JM vsop Appleton VX and 12 Dos Maderas 5x5 La Favorite (maybe) Barbancourt 8 Don Q white and gold Mount Gay 1703 Ron Barrilito 3 star Coruba dark Smith and cross Denizen 8 I'm sure there's a few others, like the over proofs I use to make falernum and swedish punch. Ones I won't keep (maybe) Dictador 20, Botran reserve, st Theresa, Zacapa and other solera styles just don't work for me, goslings and Kohala bay (Coruba works fine), fleur de Cana (maybe if they start putting the word 'year' on the bottle I won't feel like I'm being ripped off, white agricoles like st george and Dillion's and the lower proof clement, any high end mount gay, other agricoles like st James and Brugal.

The 21 year is fantastic, it is my favorite sipping rum

You are wasting it mixing though

Flor de Cana is a good white mixer (the 4 year) - what do you prefer? I think it is better than cruzan at roughly the same price point

Five Banks and Cana Brava are better, however higher price points

On 2015-05-12 21:55, KrakenHunterSteve wrote:
I just counted and I have at least 86 rums in my collection (not including doubles and back stock). I didn't think it was that many. I think at this point I will always be trying new sippers, and will start culling out my mixers until I have a stable few that are acceptable in most situations.
Keepers:
El Dorado 3 through 15 (21 is not worth the extra money)
Angostura 7, 1919, 1824, no. 1
Plantation 3 on up (I have never had a bad plantation)
Lost Spirits polynesian and colonial
Pusser's blue and red
Diplomatico reserva, Abuelo 12, Don Pancho 18, Gran Matusalem
Hamilton Jamaican and Demerara, and the over proof once my lemon hart is gone
Clement vsop and blue canne
Rhum JM vsop
Appleton VX and 12
Dos Maderas 5x5
La Favorite (maybe)
Barbancourt 8
Don Q white and gold
Mount Gay 1703
Ron Barrilito 3 star
Coruba dark
Smith and cross
Denizen 8
I'm sure there's a few others, like the over proofs I use to make falernum and swedish punch.
Ones I won't keep (maybe) Dictador 20, Botran reserve, st Theresa, Zacapa and other solera styles just don't work for me, goslings and Kohala bay (Coruba works fine), fleur de Cana (maybe if they start putting the word 'year' on the bottle I won't feel like I'm being ripped off, white agricoles like st george and Dillion's and the lower proof clement, any high end mount gay, other agricoles like st James and Brugal.

Post #743220 by Dapuma1 on Mon, May 18, 2015 6:59 PM