Review #72: Black Tot Rum
Drinking the last rum ration allocated for the British Imperial navy
Douglas Cocktail
Peaty cocktail featuring Lagavulin 16 from L’Abbattoir
Review #71: Cadenhead SFJE Monymusk 14
I love Cadenhead. It was the first place I stopped off in England. I not only made a purposeful detour on my way to a business trip in Netherlands (there was no other reason for me to be in London), …
Review #70: Angostura No. 1 Oloroso Sherry
It’s always fun to try interesting cask finished rums, although with the exception of Foursquare, I can’t say that I’ve been a huge fan of the unusual cask maturation. The Angostura No. 1 sounded excellent – I love Oloroso Sherry …
Review #59: Faultline Jamaican 16
Dunder, for scotch drinkers, is slightly analogous to the rum-world equivalent of peat. Except instead of moss, it is a fermenting pit of rotting waste.
Review #67: Laphroaig Distillery Exclusive (2005 Bourbon to PX Cask)
As mentioned in Review #56 (Laphroaig 2011 Oloroso Sherry Cask from the distillery), we are now siphoning off the distillery miniatures that we bottled at the end of our Distillers Wares tour. I’m not usually a souvenir type of …
Rum Review #58: Uruapan Agricole Rum
We have been on a (very slow) quest to hit 300 rums each. We talked to the couple (actually in the picture below) that are about to embark on a rum sojourn next month, and they are going to Brazil …
Review #66: Laphroaig Distillery Exclusive (Oloroso Sherry 2011)
Back during our 2018 Thanksgiving break (end of November for non-Americans), we went to Islay in Scotland and visited the holy grounds of Laphroaig Distillery (article here). The Distillers Wares tour culminated in our favorite part: drinking straight …
Funk-groni Negroni
High octane negroni with split base between Rumfire and El Dorado
Review #65: Bowmore 18
We’re always on the hunt for difficult-to-procure bottles, but the Bowmore 18 is broadly available, if a little expensive. But to christian a new office, we needed a bottle and it was hard to pass up an opportunity to get …