What's your latest rum purchase? - Tiki Drinks and Food

C CosmoReverb Tiki Centralite Southern California Joined: Sep 19, 2016 Posts: 93	C CosmoReverb Posted posted on Thu, Jan 12, 2017 3:43 PM On 2017-01-12 08:50, Tele295 wrote: I like Belizean rum, and its caramel-ly flavor. Picked up a bottle of Traveller's One Barrel recently. Not expensive, but enjoyable Good choice. I would even go so far as to say that One Barrel might be the best "bang for the buck" rum around. I don't mean to oversell it, it's by no means gonna stand up against some of the higher quality choices, but for a low cost, all around workhorse? You won't find much better. It tends to get overlooked because a)most people don't go looking for rums from Belize and b)the low price makes others assume low quality. I know a lot of connoisseurs don't care for the strong caramel flavor, which many say tastes a bit artificial, but my palate isn't refined enough to mind.

On 2017-01-12 08:50, Tele295 wrote:
I like Belizean rum, and its caramel-ly flavor. Picked up a bottle of Traveller's One Barrel recently. Not expensive, but enjoyable

Good choice. I would even go so far as to say that One Barrel might be the best "bang for the buck" rum around. I don't mean to oversell it, it's by no means gonna stand up against some of the higher quality choices, but for a low cost, all around workhorse? You won't find much better.

It tends to get overlooked because a)most people don't go looking for rums from Belize and b)the low price makes others assume low quality. I know a lot of connoisseurs don't care for the strong caramel flavor, which many say tastes a bit artificial, but my palate isn't refined enough to mind.

Post #771976 by CosmoReverb on Thu, Jan 12, 2017 3:43 PM