Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR) are not playing around when it comes to some of the stuff they’re releasing as independent bottlers and this batch of Jamaican rum distilled in 1982 is part of it. Funnily enough this is not the first 1982 rum I’ve reviewed, I also had a look at the Rum Nation … More Review: Berry Bros. & Rudd Exceptional Casks 1982 Jamaican Rum 33 Year Old Cask No. 14
Karen Hoskin’s Montanya Distillers is the American rum distillery you need to keep an eye on if you’re a sugar cane distillate fella. It’s located at about 2700 meters about the sea level in the Rocky Mountains, Colorado, which influences the profile of the rum produced there given that distillation at a higher altitude can … More Review: Montanya Exclusiva
Berry Bros. & Rudd (BBR from now on because I’m lazy) is Britain’s oldest wine and spirit merchant, having traded from the same shop since 1698 – at least that’s what their website say. They have some rums in their portofolio such as Penny Blue and their BBR Classic range (reviews here, here, here and … More Review: Berry Bros. & Rudd Fijian Rum 11 Year Old
Clairin Sajous is made at Chelo Distillery in Haiti by Michel Sajous. Luca Gargano of Velier is responsible for distributing various Clairins outside Haiti. Clairin Sajous uses sugar cane from the estate, the base material being cane juice. Fermented with wild yeast for around 7-10 days, pot still distilled and bottled without dilution – absolutely … More The Barrel Sample: Clairin Sajous 2015
Langs Rum is a brand that has been “revived” by Ian Macleod Distillers’ last year. According to them, the original Langs Banana Rum was being made in the 1860s with rum imported from the Caribbean in Glasgow. The Lang Brothers brand joined Ian Macleod Distillers’ portfolio in 2003 as part of the firm’s acquisition of … More Review: Langs Pineapple Rum
The story of the Saint Nicholas Abbey Estate starts in the mid 17th century in Barbados with a bit of a drama-soap-opera style chain of events between two plantations and their owners, Col. Benjamin Berringer and Sir John Yeaman. It is said that Yeaman poisoned Berringer and then married his wife, Margaret in 1661, who … More Review: St. Nicholas Abbey White Rum (40% ABV)
Limin’ Beach Club is a vibrant bar and restaurant situated on the South Bank, in London, UK. To my embarrassment I have yet to visit it, but it’s definitely on the list. Last year the people in charge of it, Sham ‘Mr. Limin’ Mahabir and Paolo ‘Mr. Rum’ Molinaro, began their rum venture with Threeways … More Review: Threeways Rum
I’ve recently praised Saint Lucia Distillers, the home of the Chairman’s Reserve rum (and many others), saying it’s a very versatile distillery, capable of producing a diverse range of rums by mastering their column still and three pot stills, various barrels and making use of both molasses and sugar cane juice distillates. Most of that … More Review: Chairman’s Reserve Legacy
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
Today I have a sample of unaged full bodied rum from Mhoba Distillery located in South Africa. It’s sugar cane juice based, with the cane coming from their own estate. Fermented for around 3 weeks with dunder (stillage) added in order to enhance the ester count and batch distilled in their handmade pot stills at … More The Barrel Sample: Mhoba High Ester 68% ABV