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For The Love Of Rum


The Big Daiquiri Challenge - Chapter 1
I’m not much of a cocktail drinker. I respect the art of creating cocktails, but don’t enjoy them as much as sipping rum neat. My gf,...
Ivar
Jun 3, 20197 min read
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Going Behind The Scenes - Mhoba French Cask Rum Review
Mhoba rum is made in South Africa. They own their own sugar estate, build their own pot still and cane press, use a long fermentation of...
Ivar
May 23, 20198 min read
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Foursquare 2007 & Empery - Compared With 2005 & Patrimonio
Whenever Foursquare Distillery puts a new rum on the market, Richard Seale, distiller and master blender of Foursquare, seems to keep...
Ivar
May 16, 20193 min read
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Mocambo 20 Year Rum From Mexico
The Mocambo name makes me think of a rather famous music venue in Toronto, the El Mocambo. Back in the day, some of my favourite blues...
Ivar
May 9, 20192 min read
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Worthy Park Single Estate 2006 - 12 Year Rum
Worthy Park Single Estate 2006 is the latest addition to an already exciting lineup of rums. I was lucky to come across it at Chicago...
Ivar
May 9, 20192 min read
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Foursquare Patrimonio Review
Foursquare Patrimonio brings me right back to UK Rumfest in October 2018. One evening I walked into Trailer Happiness with Ian Burrell...
Ivar
May 2, 20193 min read
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Doctor Bird Jamaica Rum
Doctor Bird Jamaica Rum is blended and bottled in Detroit by a company called Two James. It seems to have quite the following in North...
Ivar
Apr 24, 20192 min read
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Appleton Master Blenders’ Legacy
I complain plenty about the rum availability in Toronto. That doesn’t get me anywhere but it is only a natural reaction to our situation...
Ivar
Apr 22, 20193 min read
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Ron Millonario XO - A Transparent Review
Transparency is something I find important, especially when I buy food or drinks. Unfortunately it’s often nowhere to be found in rum. At...
Ivar
Apr 12, 20193 min read
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Foursquare's Rum Treasures
Foursquare distillery in Barbados has really upped their game in the past few years. They always had a solid line of 40%ish rums but are...
Ivar
Apr 7, 20194 min read
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The Rum Battle: Worthy Park Estate vs Hampden Estate
Worthy Park and Hampden Estate are both very old distilleries that each have something new about them. Worthy Park was founded in 1670,...
Ivar
Apr 3, 20193 min read
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Funky Medicinal Jamaican - CDI New Yarmouth 12
There was a lot of excitement around the presentation of this rum. I heard about it when it was at London Rumfest in 2017. I wasn’t there...
Ivar
Mar 28, 20192 min read
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El Dorado Rare Collection - Albion 2004
When photos of the El Dorado Albion 2004 and Skeldon 2000 surfaced you could feel the excitement in the online rum groups. This couldn’t...
Ivar
Mar 23, 20193 min read
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Dictador 12 - Premium Or Pretty?
If person A likes a product and person B doesn’t, they’ll probably never agree on it. Nor would they have to, since there really isn’t...
Ivar
Mar 19, 20195 min read
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S.B.S. Jamaica 2018 - Hampden DOK
When I went to London for UK Rumfest in October, I first visited a great tasting event on the Goldon Hind, set up by the guys from Rum...
Ivar
Mar 13, 20192 min read
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Berry Bros. & Rudd - Fiji 8 Year
Berry Bros. & Rudd is Britain's oldest wine and spirits merchant, founded in London in 1698. In the world of rum they are known for...
Ivar
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Compagnie Des Indes - 20 Years - Barbados
French bottler Compagnie Des Indes has earned a good reputation in a somewhat short amount of time. They buy casks of rum, mostly through...
Ivar
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Foursquare 2005 - A Rummy Rum
First time I encountered Foursquare 2005 was in Barbados in the spring of 2018. We were there for a week to celebrate rum with a group of...
Ivar
Mar 1, 20192 min read
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Botran Solera 1893 - Sistema Solera 18
Botran rum is made in Guatemala by the same people who make Zacapa. Therefore it’s made from cane syrup in a large multi column still....
Ivar
Feb 27, 20192 min read
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Blind Rum Tasting: Appleton 21 - 15 - 12 - Reserve
Finding good rum in our Ontario liquor stores is like finding water after a 3 day walk in the desert. A second of intense happiness,...
Ivar
Feb 27, 20194 min read
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