Spirit Reviews

We love writing about spirits. While we’ve had hundreds of rums, as of March 2019 we’ve just started formally reviewing them, and you can find our catalog of rum reviews, and history about the spirit in our Rum Reviews section.

We’ve picked up the pace on whisky reviews, and have amassed a small arsenal of reviews. You can also learn more about our spirit tasting and review process. Some of our favorites recently have been from the Scotch Malt Whisky Society (SMWS), so we put together a comprehensive guide to SMWS bottle numbers, because a lot of the other ones we found weren’t up to date and were missing things.

We accept Rum and Whisky samples and you can learn more about how to reach us on our contact us page.

Drinking the last rum ration allocated for the British Imperial navy
Peaty cocktail featuring Lagavulin 16 from L’Abbattoir
I love Cadenhead. It was the first place I stopped off in England. I not only made a purposeful detour
It's always fun to try interesting cask finished rums, although with the exception of Foursquare, I can't say that I've
Dunder, for scotch drinkers, is slightly analogous to the rum-world equivalent of peat. Except instead of moss, it is a
As mentioned in Review #56 (Laphroaig 2011 Oloroso Sherry Cask from the distillery), we are now siphoning off the distillery
We have been on a (very slow) quest to hit 300 rums each. We talked to the couple (actually in
Back during our 2018 Thanksgiving break (end of November for non-Americans), we went to Islay in Scotland and visited the
High octane negroni with split base between Rumfire and El Dorado
We're always on the hunt for difficult-to-procure bottles, but the Bowmore 18 is broadly available, if a little expensive. But