Sometimes obsessively browsing the rum section on Amazon pays off, this time with an offering from Berry Brothers & Rudd. After finding the Dram Mor Guyana on House of Malt for just £38, I came across this other steal, a single cask from Guyana for just £42 – unfortunately they have bumped the price at … More Review: Berry Bros. & Rudd Guyana 10 Year Old Cask No. 56
Been a while since I found an accessible Single Cask rum from Guyana, but thanks to the Internet and the word of mouth, here we are. First time I’ve purchased a bottle from Dram Mor, which is understandable given that they are a new company. Dram Mor Group Ltd. is an independent bottler from Dumbarton, … More Review: Dram Mor Guyana 10 Year Old 2011
It was at the end of 2020, it was on Facebook, it was in a group of rum heads, it was thanks to the leading rum heads, that myself and other peers from the same community got the chance to purchase and try 4 different potent unaged Jamaican rum distillates, all from different distilleries. That … More Review: S.B.S x The UK Rum Club 2022 Charity Pack
Today I’m having a look at two flavoured offerings from The Bush Rum range because I do embrace sugar cane spirits diversity on my website – also I received these bottles in order to review them so why not have a look at them. I have heard about The Bush Rum before when I was … More Review: The Bush Rum Original Spiced vs. The Bush Rum Passionfruit & Guava
Thanks to a fellow spirits enthusiast, ginesthesia (well, she likes gin, but let’s not give her a hard time) I managed to get a sample of this Guyanese single barrel rum bottled by Leith Spirits. Leith Spirits is based in Leith (duh!), Edinburgh and they run a distillery where they make their own range of … More Review: Single Cask Rum Diamond Distillery 16 Year Old – Leith Stillroom
Berry Bros & Rudd are a wine and spirit merchant based in London who also act as independent bottlers. Here I have a sample of a Guyanese rum finished in a former ex-Williamson (Islay whisky) cask. Molasses based, distilled at Diamond Distillery in unspecified stills, aged for 10 years in Guyana in an ex-Bourbon barrel … More The Barrel Sample: Berry Bros & Rudd Diamond 2010 – 2021 Islay Cask Finish
El Dorado, of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) is a brand that is made at Diamond Distillery in Guyana. In my opinion their range was the perfect rum brand metaphor of “you can’t have it all”. As in they a collection of amazing stills, some of them unique in the world, that can produce various delicious … More Review: El Dorado 8 Year Old (2021)
I was scrolling on the Master Of Malt new rum releases, just like anybody else does after they get paid, and given I try to focus more on the white rum category, my eyes landed on this bottle of Merchant’s Choice Guyanese White Rum. While you can find plenty of rum from Guyana on the … More Review: Merchant’s Choice Guyanese White Rum
I’ve ordered a few bottles of this last month as I wanted to make myself a batch or two of hot buttered rum punch* and needed a “dark” rum, so I decided to keep a sample for review at a later time. *For the record, the punch was in the decent-but-needs-working range. Went deep onto … More Review: Robert Watson’s Demerara Rum
Couldn’t review Signature Blend #1 and not carry on to the second one shortly after. This is also a continuous releases presented in a 70cl bottle as opposed to their usual limited 50cl offerings. Once again, as with #1, Peter Holland from The Floating Rum Shack was involved in the creative process of the blend … More Review: That Boutique-y Rum Company Signature Blend #2