Rum club

[carlosj]

To provide an alternative to posting in the troll thread, what type of rum can you recommend for me? My taste background is that I love malt whisky /whiskey particularly the peatier ones, and I assume that rums aren't like these. I drink white rum in a variety of cocktails, but never dark; I associate dark with the cloying taste of rum and raisin chocolate. Thanks for any tips, and even how it's best drunk.

[balti-pie]

Dark rum is majestic stuff. I like yer Caribbean ones, Appleton Estate is my favourite of the readily available supermarket rums - kraken is also thoroughly decent. Good with coke, lemonade, poured into cider, added to tea, sloshed into a morning milkshake, or drunk on its own. 
rum: good with everything. 
 

what’s your favourite couple of whiskies? I have worryingly expensive tastes ??? Nikka from the barrel and Lagavulin would be typical faves 

[august1]

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[Northtim]

Dark rum is great, I prefer the light brown ones so not too dark. 

Mount Gay Black Barrel is absolutely lovely but a bit pricey.

As Baltic says, great mixer with most things, and Appleton Estate a decent cheaper brand.

not convinced by spiced rum myself but you could give that a try

[Quark]

Certainly some similarities with whisky, in the varieties of tastes and preference. Give you an idea of where I stand, I like Balvenie Doublewood and Caribbean Cask, Penderyn, Nikka, stuff like that. So not the peatier ones so much.

With rum, I'm a fan of spiced for mixers (heresy to @H.M.V I know). Preference is for Kraken, which is a nice dark one, or Red Leg which is lighter and has a nice balance of spice, quite heavy on the vanilla which you dont find in a lot of spiced rum. If you had any rum off me at the meet, it's Red Leg.

Either a good fiery ginger beer with a wedge of lime (and a dash of bitters if you're feeling flash), or there's a Jamaican grapefruit soda called Ting which is lush. Loads of ice either way.

For sipping like a whisky my personal choices are Appleton's Extra 12, or as had already been said the Mount Gay Black Barrel. Havana Club Maestro is also nice. I'm happy enough to have rum room temperature, but if I want it chilled I prefer whisky stones to water.

Really is the tip of the iceberg. Went to a rum bar in Soho not that long ago, and they had me working my way down the wall and basically through the Caribbean!

Edited October 7, 2019 by Quark

[carlosj]

9 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Dark rum is majestic stuff. I like yer Caribbean ones, Appleton Estate is my favourite of the readily available supermarket rums - kraken is also thoroughly decent. Good with coke, lemonade, poured into cider, added to tea, sloshed into a morning milkshake, or drunk on its own. 
rum: good with everything. 
 

what’s your favourite couple of whiskies? I have worryingly expensive tastes ??? Nikka from the barrel and Lagavulin would be typical faves 

Thanks all, a good start to try.

For whiskeys, I prefer the Islays, Laphroaig in particular, but the islands too. I've had Amrut after a holiday in India, some Japanese too. The best for me was a birthday gift of 18 years old Highland Park from my dad.

[H.M.V]

Gosling's dark rum with ginger beer and a wedge of lime with ice. Absolute taste of heaven. A dash of angostura for me as well. 

[balti-pie]

Rum and ting ???? absolutely bloody beautiful 

[carlosj]

Nikka, that's one to try, but back to the rums, I will check out the local offies that do good ranges.

[Gnomicide]

6 minutes ago, august1 said:

red

Indeed.

 

[Quark]

**MIDDLE CLASS ALERT**

Waitrose do some decent ones.

And the Whisky Exchange website is also good

[SighMo]

Used to love VAT19 years ago but it seems they don't make it anymore when I searched pre EOTR festival. Any experts know of something similar?

[Quark]

If you can find it, there's a white coconut rum from the Appletons distillery called Koko Kanu. Forget what you know about coconut rum from Malibu; this stuff is lush.

With Ting it's a thing of tropical beauty.

[Quark]

21 minutes ago, balti-pie said:

Dark rum is majestic stuff. I like yer Caribbean ones, Appleton Estate is my favourite of the readily available supermarket rums - kraken is also thoroughly decent. Good with coke, lemonade, poured into cider, added to tea, sloshed into a morning milkshake, or drunk on its own. 
rum: good with everything. 
 

what’s your favourite couple of whiskies? I have worryingly expensive tastes ??? Nikka from the barrel and Lagavulin would be typical faves 

Have you tried Penderyn Welsh whisky pal? Bloody lovely it is, if you like yours quite rich it's right up your alley

[H.M.V]

Aw I used to drink Ting all the time in Jamaica. Delicious. Go well with some gold Appleton. 

Used to drink the 60% proof Jamaican moonshine called jonko batty ( called that cos it smelled like black birds arse, rotten. I didn't name it) God that stuff was rough. ?

[Woffy]

13 minutes ago, Quark said:

Certainly some similarities with whisky, in the varieties of tastes and preference. Give you an idea of where I stand, I like Balvenie Doublewood and Caribbean Cask, Penderyn, Nikka, stuff like that. So not the peatier ones so much.

With rum, I'm a fan of spiced for mixers (heresy to @H.M.V I know). Preference is for Kraken, which is a nice dark one, or Red Leg which is lighter and has a nice balance of spice, quite heavy on the vanilla which you dont find in a lot of spiced rum. If you had any rum off me at the meet, it's Red Leg.

Either a good fiery ginger beer with a wedge of lime (and a dash of bitters if you're feeling flash), or there's a Jamaican grapefruit soda called Ting which is lush. Loads of ice either way.

For sipping like a whisky my personal choices are Appleton's Extra 12, or as had already been said the Mount Gay Black Barrel. Havana Club Maestro is also nice. I'm happy enough to have rum room temperature, but if I want it chilled I prefer whisky stones to water.

Really is the tip of the iceberg. Went to a rum bar in Soho not that long ago, and they had me working my way down the wall and basically through the Caribbean!

I don’t know this much about anything. 

[balti-pie]

9 minutes ago, Quark said:

Have you tried Penderyn Welsh whisky pal? Bloody lovely it is, if you like yours quite rich it's right up your alley

Had it on my list for a while - got to wait for the supermarket to bung it on Sale for under £30 and I’m on it. Ta ??
the Lidl own-label Ben Bracken is actually well worth a bash if you fancy giving it a go, the Islay one is £18 and is easily a match of most supermarket single malts - it took me quite by surprise! 

[carlosj]

17 minutes ago, Quark said:

Have you tried Penderyn Welsh whisky pal? Bloody lovely it is, if you like yours quite rich it's right up your alley

That is a nice one.

[yehbutnobut]

Massive rum fan here, but won this in a raffle the other week. Neat on ice, was bloody ansum.

[DareToDibble]

Kraken is definitely the one for me but also a fan of the other spiced rums.

The other day I came across this which is STUNNING but slightly pricey.

[Crazyfool01]

1 hour ago, Quark said:

Certainly some similarities with whisky, in the varieties of tastes and preference. Give you an idea of where I stand, I like Balvenie Doublewood and Caribbean Cask, Penderyn, Nikka, stuff like that. So not the peatier ones so much.

With rum, I'm a fan of spiced for mixers (heresy to @H.M.V I know). Preference is for Kraken, which is a nice dark one, or Red Leg which is lighter and has a nice balance of spice, quite heavy on the vanilla which you dont find in a lot of spiced rum. If you had any rum off me at the meet, it's Red Leg.

Either a good fiery ginger beer with a wedge of lime (and a dash of bitters if you're feeling flash), or there's a Jamaican grapefruit soda called Ting which is lush. Loads of ice either way.

For sipping like a whisky my personal choices are Appleton's Extra 12, or as had already been said the Mount Gay Black Barrel. Havana Club Maestro is also nice. I'm happy enough to have rum room temperature, but if I want it chilled I prefer whisky stones to water.

Really is the tip of the iceberg. Went to a rum bar in Soho not that long ago, and they had me working my way down the wall and basically through the Caribbean!

which was the concoction I tried ? forgotten already ... and il probably end up asking you again before June  

[beefykoala]

1 hour ago, carlosj said:

To provide an alternative to posting in the troll thread, what type of rum can you recommend for me? My taste background is that I love malt whisky /whiskey particularly the peatier ones, and I assume that rums aren't like these. I drink white rum in a variety of cocktails, but never dark; I associate dark with the cloying taste of rum and raisin chocolate. Thanks for any tips, and even how it's best drunk.

Judging on your taste profile, I highly recommend rum.

[CaledonianGonzo]

Appleton Estate Signature Blend is a decent supermarket standby and usually on offer so you can't really go wrong with it as a swigging rum.

On the other hand spiced rum is an alcopop.

[Quark]

7 hours ago, crazyfool1 said:

which was the concoction I tried ? forgotten already ... and il probably end up asking you again before June  

That was the Red Leg

[Quark]

10 hours ago, Woffy said:

I don’t know this much about anything. 

You're confusing "knowing" with "having an uninformed opinion"

I just know what I like Woffster