A few months ago the folks at Fine Drams released a few rums that were picked by folks from the community at r/rum. For those who don’t use reddit regularly, the site can be a bit overwhelming, and much of it is terrible, but once you find good communities you’ll really enjoy it. The r/rum and r/whiskey communities are both excellent, filled with supportive folks who like to review and taste spirits.
Anywho, when I saw that they were releasing a bottle of DOK I knew I had to jump onboard and pick it up. For the unacquainted, DOK is a marque, a sort of industry-speak designation for rum based on the rum’s attributes. Marques have been used for hundreds of years in Caribbean rum, describing where a rum is made, and in the case of Jamaican rums, how estery it is. If you’re looking for more details on it, check out the explainer on the cocktail wonk’s site. Two of the most famous marques are Plummer and Wedderburn which you might recognize as the rums used to make Smith and Cross.
The DOK rum, short for Dermot Owen Kelly-Lawson, clocks in with roughly 4X the ester count of Smith and Cross. It’s also unaged, and 69% ABV. Not a good “intro to rum” type spirit.
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