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Post #769053 by Hurricane Hayward on Tue, Sep 27, 2016 2:04 PM

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For those not so lucky, here's another potential Kohala Bay substitute to consider (suggested by mikehooker). I recently put a 50/50 mix of Smith & Cross and Appleton Reserve to the test, both neat and in the Big Bamboo. It was compared to Kohala Bay (left) and Smith & Cross / El Dorado 12 (middle), the long-running No. 1 recommended substitute ...

I'm raking it No. 2, tied with the more complicated Smith & Cross/Myers’s/Gosling’s mix. While they're slightly distinctive and different, I can't decide which qualifies as second best. It's probably just a matter of taste. But both are perferable to any of the lower choices.

Here's the updated rankings ...
http://www.slammie.com/atomicgrog/blog/2012/05/08/rums-of-the-mai-kai-legendary-lemon-hart-returns-to-the-promised-land/#kohala-bay-substitutes