Coruba Change? - Tiki Drinks and Food

J JeffCleveland Member Joined: Jun 14, 2016 Posts: 8	J JeffCleveland Posted posted on Fri, Oct 14, 2016 1:17 PM On 2016-10-10 20:07, RumScrummager wrote: ...it is a well known fact that over the years the Jamaicans have slowly been weakening those heavy-bodied flavors that originally made these rums famous... In fact, Coruba today now contains a higher percentage of column still rum than it did five years ago. ... It seems Ed Hamilton would corroborate this as he states on his website, " Following the acquisition of Myers’s by Diageo that product lost its character. Similarly, Coruba contains more column still rum that it did five years ago and lost much of its appeal to the mixology community." I have found the Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Black Rum to be a good substitute for what Coruba used to be.

On 2016-10-10 20:07, RumScrummager wrote:
...it is a well known fact that over the years the Jamaicans have slowly been weakening those heavy-bodied flavors that originally made these rums famous... In fact, Coruba today now contains a higher percentage of column still rum than it did five years ago. ...

It seems Ed Hamilton would corroborate this as he states on his website, " Following the acquisition of Myers’s by Diageo that product lost its character. Similarly, Coruba contains more column still rum that it did five years ago and lost much of its appeal to the mixology community."

I have found the Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Black Rum to be a good substitute for what Coruba used to be.

Post #769453 by JeffCleveland on Fri, Oct 14, 2016 1:17 PM