Post #758266 by PalmtreePat on Tue, Feb 2, 2016 6:41 PM

On 2016-02-02 16:43, mikehooker wrote:

On 2016-02-02 16:23, PalmtreePat wrote:
My roommate and I decided to go out and restock the bar for the new year. It got out of hand.

I'm particularly interested in trying the Sugar Mill rum. It's from Barbados and its got an age statement right on the bottle, two things I like.

What's the one between Smith & Cross and Coruba? I saw it at Total Wine today and meant to take a pic to ask if anyone had tried it. Also, I spotted this El Dorado which I'd never seen before. Anyone know the deal? No indication of age.

Only purchase for me was a restocking of Pussers.

That's "Cane Mill" rum, from barbados. 5 years old, 80 proof. I just tried it neat about half an hour ago and found it to be a little lighter and dryer than Doorly's 5 year, which is what i usually use for barbados rum. It's got a sort of buttermilk aroma to it. I'm planning to try it in an old fashioned next.

That El Dorado product in the picture is their superior dark. I want to say it's 2 years old, but that's secondhand information from a source I can't even remember, because the website doesn't seem to mention the age of their superior line of products. I've never had it (do they even distribute it here?) but I do remember from a thread about Dagger that an alternative to the 1:1 S&C:ED12 combo was 4:1 Kohala Bay to ED Superior Dark, which sounds like a slightly more cost effective means of replicating that flavor.