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

K Kevco Member Joined: Mar 27, 2014 Posts: 13	K Kevco Posted posted on Tue, May 19, 2015 9:27 AM At last count over 50!
KG Kahiki Guy Member Baltimore, MD Joined: May 15, 2015 Posts: 133	KG Kahiki Guy Posted posted on Tue, May 19, 2015 10:31 AM I have 15, but I'm always working on finding new rums. Usually I'll find a recipe I want to try and will pick up the required rum for that recipe. Which is how my collection grows. Brugal Anejo Meyer's Dark Hamiltons 151 demerara El Dorado 12 Bacardi Select Bacardi Gold Bacardi 151 Gosling's 151 Malibu coconut Malibu Mango Appleton Estates V/X Doorly's XO Sailor Jerry's Spiced Captain Morgan Spiced Blackheart Spiced I'm not a Social Drinker, it's mostly Work Related! [ Edited by: Kahiki Guy 2015-05-22 04:54 ]
K KrakenHunterSteve Member Joined: Jan 23, 2014 Posts: 74	K KrakenHunterSteve Posted posted on Thu, May 21, 2015 10:19 PM On 2015-05-18 18:59, Dapuma1 wrote: 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 I agree about Ed 21, and I don't use it as a mixer. I just don't consider it 3x better than the 15, even though the price says it should be. I switched from Cruzan to don q as my main mixer, and have also added plantation and el dorado white. Flor de Cana 7 was one of the first rums I had that made me into a rum drinker, and I just wish they would put the word "year" on the bottle. The 18 year just says "18 slow aged," which makes me believe they are skirting the law regarding putting an age on the bottle. [ Edited by: KrakenHunterSteve 2015-05-21 22:20 ]

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Kevco Posted posted on Tue, May 19, 2015 9:27 AM

At last count over 50!

KG

Kahiki Guy Posted posted on Tue, May 19, 2015 10:31 AM

I have 15, but I'm always working on finding new rums. Usually I'll find a recipe I want to try and will pick up the required rum for that recipe. Which is how my collection grows.

Brugal Anejo
Meyer's Dark
Hamiltons 151 demerara
El Dorado 12
Bacardi Select
Bacardi Gold
Bacardi 151
Gosling's 151
Malibu coconut
Malibu Mango
Appleton Estates V/X
Doorly's XO
Sailor Jerry's Spiced
Captain Morgan Spiced
Blackheart Spiced

I'm not a Social Drinker, it's mostly Work Related!

[ Edited by: Kahiki Guy 2015-05-22 04:54 ]

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KrakenHunterSteve Posted posted on Thu, May 21, 2015 10:19 PM

On 2015-05-18 18:59, Dapuma1 wrote:
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

I agree about Ed 21, and I don't use it as a mixer. I just don't consider it 3x better than the 15, even though the price says it should be. I switched from Cruzan to don q as my main mixer, and have also added plantation and el dorado white. Flor de Cana 7 was one of the first rums I had that made me into a rum drinker, and I just wish they would put the word "year" on the bottle. The 18 year just says "18 slow aged," which makes me believe they are skirting the law regarding putting an age on the bottle.

[ Edited by: KrakenHunterSteve 2015-05-21 22:20 ]