Capn Jimbo's Rum Project Forum

I just opened a fresh bottle of Appleton Extra 12 some days ago and while I knew I liked it from the past bottles, I must say this again: The amount of value one receives with Appleton Extra 12 for the price (in Germany around 22 EUR; 25 USD) is simply breathtaking. And differently from many other d...

Yeh, good to hear you're doing alright! It'd be nice to catch up some more after this long time of silence in these halls. In the meantime I completely invested myself in Foursquare produce due to a lack of solid alternatives... with the occasional tryout of a newcomer. Recently I also started to ex...

Hey fellow afficionados, in a recent online order I could not hold my hands off the latest offering coming from Foursquare. It is called "The Real McCoy 12 Years Old Limited Edition" and apparently has been aged in Madeira & Bourbon barrels. I will probably open the bottle in the comin...

Thanks man! Will do, email in production

K, thanks for sharing!

I will spend some time of today’s evening to revisit S&C and see how it works for me. Will try pure, with added water and maybe also mixed with another rum from the more flat end of the spectrum.

Gotcha. Will check it out. Do you prefer S&C or any of the Appleton/Wray & Nephew as standard Jamaican reference?

Hey, thanks for the suggestion! (I really like the Pratchett signature ^^)

Which rums do you "supercharge" this way? Did you try adding small amounts to cocktails as well?

To be perfectly honest: I have Smith & Cross at home and I am not getting it so far. To me, even watered down, it tastes very sharp like ethanol clouding its different taste nuances. I feel like an idiot because every resource available and credible to me states that this is a pretty good produc...

Dear Capn Jimbo, I hope you are doing well! After a long time of rather low hobbyist activity I finally found some moments to revisit my rum, order some new stuff from Foursquare and stop by at the rum project (all time favorite web resource on rum). Hopefully I will be able to do so more frequently...

It seems the only way 'out' is to identify the brands which at least don't obviously alter/cheat/create stuff and sell it for 50+ bucks per bottle. I am a little torn since some of the sugary brands still produce products of decent taste. The palate is sometimes fooled while the brain knows that the...

I have the impression that many rums which stop to show definite age numbers do so due to market pressure. At least for the 7 years/7 I can confirm the two bottles I have taste exactly alike. Or to be more precise: they taste exactly alike at the moment. Without years it is a lot easier to adjust pr...

Actually I am still a silent reader. However a New and time consuming full time job, Begining work on a Dissertation and my wedding in May have left me with very little spare time... Despite the odds I managed to pull together the exact same Experiment with a bottle oft canadian "Whisky", ...

Welcome in this small but precious board :) Nice selection for the beginning, Jimbo really nails it with his recommendations. However I'm not sure whether I really do prefer Matusalem 15 to Havana Club 7 Anos in terms of cuban style. When I joined the "refined rum"-crew I first had the imp...

Very interesting post! One thing becomes obvious: The line between genius blender and madness seems to be rather blurry. I remember a Cubaney review on this honoured website which cited a 'blender' who wants to create his flavour profile about what rum should taste like. Of course this one uses addi...

Now you got me excited Jimbo. I put this on the first place of birthday wishlist :D EDIT: I had the opportunity to test both the 5+3 and the 5+5 from Dos Maderas. I have to say: To me the 5+5 is even better. It departs from its rummy origins even further than the 5+3 but keeps them visible at all st...