Capn Jimbo's Rum Project Forum

Here's to the Queen! May she find her clothes! Let's first define agricultural rum, aka rum agricole (Fr), with rum agricole AOC Martinique as a subset. Luis Ayala: The two major categories of rum are based on their production process: "Industrial Rum" and "Agricultural Rum". Fo...

Money talks. Maybe. The French have gone to great lengths to minutely regulate and control the every element of production of their vaunted and protected AOC agricole rhums - from acreage, type of cane, season of harvest, width of crushing rollers, specified BRIX and pH, temperatures, genus of yeas...

Reviews are spread throughout the forum, but all have been entered preceeded by "Review:". Please note that our reviews are biased toward fine sipping rums of uncommon value. Still, a remarkable rum costing say $20 may well receive a higher rating than a rum of equal qualification that cos...

10 Cane Rum: "Five Cane" Now I know most everyone has become familiar with 10 Cane, its computer designed bottle, top shelf location, purposely slanted orange label and slick marketing ("...historically cane is harvested in bundles of 10".) Uh-huh. I don't like rhum by regulatio...

Oronoco Rum: "Anise Pitzel" Oronoco is distilled in Brazil and is made with mountain grown cane juice from "Fazenda Soledade -- the home of Oronoco -- located on the lush mountain slopes of Novo Friburgo in the highlands of Rio de Janeiro state." Right next to a tire reprocessin...

This well written book is set in 1957 Havanna, a year before Fidel, when Cuba was at its international zenith as an exotic destination for no end of luminaries, the Floridita and, of course, our own Ernest Hemingway. King Bongo By Thomas Sanchez KNOPF; 310 PAGES; $25 It’s a book review cliche that a...

Historically, rum and its many concoctions have been widely seen and used as medicinals and aphrodisiacs. How bout bush rum soaked spiced chicken gizzards. Better than Oronoco. Mmmmm, can I have another honey? From The Independent, Jul 1, 2001 by Anthea Milne : On the tropical island of Tobago, viri...

OK, it's time to play! The rhums of Martinique proudly display the A.O.C. (Appellation d’Origine Contrôlée ) label. The label is printed in the size, typestyle and position required by the national committee of the A.O.C. As mentioned before this roughly translates into "spirits of controlled ...

When is rhum agricole not Rhum Agricole? Answer: when it's not AOC... This section was originally entitled "French Agricole Rhum", but after a dustup with a few effete rum, er rhum snobs who believed that "Rhum Agricole" must be 100 proof, from Martinique and bear the "AOC&...

Ron Abuelo Anejo 7 Anos Rum "Maple" Be sure to read the review of Ron Abuelo Anejo. This was our second tasting of the evening with the goal of comparing the younger Ron Abuelo Anejo to Ron Abuelo Anejo 7 Anos to see what a few more years would accomplish. Really quite a bit, the reviews ...

Ron Abuelo Anejo Reserva Especial Rum: "A Breath of Fresh Air" Ron Abuelo Anejo is a well respected Panamanian rum, molasses based. The color is a light amber; it is a BTI best buy. This evening Sue Sea and I decided to taste both this rum and its 7 year big brother (see also our comparat...

Ron del Barrilito Three Star Rum: "Orange Licorice" Note : this is one of our very first reviews and suffers accordingly. Following is an update. Actually, we didn't do bad at all... This is the second of a two part tasting. Sue Sea and I decided to taste both the Two Star and Three Star,...

Ron del Barrilito Two Star Rum: "Puncha Peppa" ******* Note : this was one of our first, really crappy reviews. Although it turned out to be surprisingly accurate anyway, please be sure to see the updated review, following this post. ******* No doubt you've heard of these two rums from Pu...

Cruzan Estate Diamond Rum: "Eggnog" This light amber rum was both a surprise and a treat. There are more than a few who mention Cruzan ED and Single Barrel in the same breath, and a number of these, not least Ed Hamilton, prefer the Estate Diamond. With all the rums I own I was reluctant ...

Mount Gay Extra Old Rum: "Rum's Reference Standard" I'm not gonna kid ya. Mount Gay Extra Old stands alone among reasonably affordable rums. At $32 it's approaching the top of that reasonable range, but it is worth every single penny. It needs to be the first rum you buy, and the one to w...