Capn Jimbo's Rum Project Forum

Cognac and blending/additives is an interesting topic for sure - luckily we do not really see cognac producers take quite as many liberties as your average "rum" makers have done. I recently checked the sugar content of more than 50 different cognac's listed by Alko in 2014 - 2016, and the...

Jarimi, do you know why Velier sometimes issued single cask and sometimes blends of barrels? All I know is this: 1) Evaporation in tropic-matured rums Velier purchased was very high, so in order to get even say 300 - 1200 bottles out per release, this was of course necessary. 2) The 2-mark/2-still ...

Hello all, I realize that I am hogging the bandwith here perhaps too much, but there was one aspect to blends of all sorts I wanted to bring into the discussion to hopefully add some discussion points... I would respectfully suggest that it is very difficult to be passionate about blends - at least ...

...yet another bump, but for another reason. Having been in this petition business for awhile, here's what happens: 1. The petition gets its 15 minutes worth of fame. For "Save Caribbean Rum" this was after author Davin Kergommeaux consulted with Dave Broom, found out the issue was real a...

J... ...an interesting concern. In the world of pure single malts and Scotch whiskys, it was long held that the blends were in general - lower priced and of somehow lower quality than the more expensive and more valued single malts. There were exceptions of course like Johnny Walker's Green Label. ...

Brilliant article. So this is where the rums disappear into blends. How come they manage to have so much power and be the in betweeners? I suspect that they have the money, contacts on all sides, and success in selling stock out to various different parties. Remember also they have been at it for a...

Wasn't WIRSPA also including Pyrat into their ACR Rum category for the longest time? That alone makes ridicule of their claim of no other additives than sugar. Pyrat is more akin to citrus liqueurs like Cointreau - more so than any other rum. If there is just good will, text on paper but no control,...

As a fellow whisky fan and an immigrant to Canada many, many years ago, welcome to Captain's fine pages! As for the rum recommendations, well - it is a wee bit difficult due to the very different availability on each side of the Atlantic. Right now, here in Europe we're very lucky to get true Rums -...

Santa Teresa 1796 (old bottle, 3/4 empty, recorked): 14-15 Capn Jimbo Santa Teresa 1796 (new bottle): 7 (tested 2x) Capn Jimbo Santa Teresa 1796: 0 thefatrumpirate I may have older bottles of this product, but they were far from "pure". So easy to see when tasted next to a truly pure rum. ...

I suspect a few things: A) The old age statements were far from reality in any case. And the rum, well - we're talking of a very modern, 2 x 6-column still solution = another alcohol factory. And legislation that regulates nada. No laws against false age statements. Just fancy stories. B) False age ...

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This was an interesting find (the translated regulations). In the global rum club, an ambassador of Venezuelan rum was assuring me that I am wrong about a number of claims regarding Venezuelan rum some time ago - so I went on a search for the regulatory texts, but the Venezuelan sites were interesti...

I've not tasted these at all, but all I have heard is that they are very tasty. Makes me wonder if they are anything like the Savanna high-ester white rum I HAVE tasted, the Lontan? No idea..But for an unaged product the price is pretty high (ahh, of course it is possible to say that it's due to the...

The biggest problem with any such "system" is that most of the "rum" producers will simply ignore it. They do not want us to know the facts now, and I do not see this changing as long as their brownish liqueur-like alcoholic blended beverages are selling. The biggest issue in rum...

Silver Seal, headed by Signore Massimo "Max" Righi, is a great Italian independent bottler of whiskies and rums. They have had some true gems of fine spirits in their selections, and once again I came across a very fine example of this. Enmore "Special Bottling" Demerara distille...