🥃 The Rum Thread

I mentioned this on another thread.

The standard Rumbullion is delicious and approx 32 quid per bottle.

The navy strength is made from the same base rum but bottled at a higher strength.

The XO is made from a different (agricole) base and tastes like a completely different rum.

I have discovered that I don’t like agricole rums. Too grassy and moonshine tasting. Supported by the french as their go to rum flavour so that’s all you need to know. Fucking french.

Stick with the original. Yum. Christmas in a bottle.

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A new Bahama based rum company. this is their only rum at present. It is a nice clean tasting young rum. Smooth, but I reckon a little overpriced at £35 per bottle. One to keep an eye on for a discounted price though.

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Rum? thats for these fuckers surely?

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I have tried the 20 year anniversary rum from Plantation and it is lush so I expected this cheaper, pineapple rum to be over sweet and sickly. Nope. It is really subtle and fucking lovely. I bought a bottle. £36.

Nice chatty barmaid too :lou_is_a_flirt:

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Is the blond guy giving Ron a BJ?

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There are quite a few of these Angostura rums. We tried them all. This is the one to buy. £58 per bottle and on my christmas list. Proper grown up rum.

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Wish we could have spent longer at the Old J stall but I would still be there.

Lovely people. Cracking rum. Bought a bottle of the Gold and nearly finished it on the train home.

Between 21 and 30 quid a bottle. They were even making zombie cocktails with three different rums, passion fruit and pineapple. Absolutely blinding.

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I also bought a bottle of this.

The first stall that we went back to for seconds. Yum. £39 might sound like a lot of money for a blended rum but it’s worth every penny.

The Corn n oil cocktail was to die for too.

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This was good too. My mate bought a bottle. £23. Made in Cornwall. The rum and my mate.

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Did you find a stall with Philippine rums?

Nope.

Japanese!

Not my cup of tea.

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Damm you. I had this in my basket earlier but took it and another two out as my bill was going to be huge. Kept the 1919. I will have to get one as well now.

The Pyrat xo reserve was the last bottle i had. Very nice.

Sounds like an excellent day.

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Spoilers!

Spending £60 on a a bottle of rum :astonished:

Excellent thread and very useful.

I picked up a lemongrass rum in Mauritius in January and #oly opened it recently. Bit worried it would be rank but it’s bloody lovely. Verging on Limoncello. Will have neat with ice.

I am very tempted to go to the festival but a little put off by the ticket price.

You should come next year! Sounded like a lot to me too but after going I think it’s pretty good value! Head’s a bit squiffy this morning mind.

PS: the Southampton one was £15 per ticket then we spent £20 on 4 drinks. It was utter shit.

This was £15 more and about 8 million times better.

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Yeah, they look like a friendly, cool couple.

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Not small measures eitherby the looks of it. :lou_is_a_flirt:

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I have a Rum Story. It is also kind of legendary now.

When I 1st landed here we had a party. Someone bought a bottle of Indian Dark Rum. Nobody touched it. Soon after we went to a party. We took the bottle of Rum. Nobody touched it.

Repeat for two years to the point where this became a well known standing joke. I took a bottle from Dubai Free to the UK and a mate with a bottle of Indian Whisky. He admitted that it had been the best thing ever for getting Tea stains out of his favourite mugs and shining up his wife’s silverware.

One week we arrived at a party given by an Indian with mainly Indians present. We handed the (somewhat battered) bottle to the host who exclaimed…

OH MY GOD YOU HAVE OLD MONK!

His compatriots went nuts all charging to the kitchen for glasses and staring longingly at the bottle. We were the most popular people in town.

We since discovered some facts. Even today in a land of the 12 quid pint, a Bottle of Old Monk costs around 2 quid in the booze shop.

Today? Everyone has a bottle at home. It has become one of THE most drunk Rums in the World. In the UK you can now get it on conniseur web sites for 19.95.

It IS unusual, bt it is very palatable and hasn’t (yet) caused my stomach to melt into my shoes.

However, while you experts would do strange things like have it with ice, the LEADING role for the beloved little bottle is that it truly does make the perfect Mai Tai base as well as kicking the shit out of a Margherita if you add just a capful to the mix.

So, when you come across soeone telling you how up market the stuff is these days, remember us, having had a treasured icon in our possession all that time and being oblivious to it’s delights.

And no, I haven’t tried McDowells. I’d never drink anything named after a golfer.

A 7 year old rum from Uttar Pradesh in India. It’s one of the largest selling rums in the world, almost all thanks to word of mouth.

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