The Rum Thread!

I dunno about the rest of you HOPpers (those of the local imibibing age, of course), but rum is my spirit of choice.... Just got a bottle of the very delicious Zaya Gran Reserva today. It was a lot spicier than I expected! Anybody try it? It's not a spiced rum, like Sailor Jerry or the Captain, but it has a definite fire to it. I'm sure it'll earn a permanent place on my shelf (hopefully the local shop continues to stock it, though I'm pretty sure I'm responsible for about half of their rum revenue myself)...

Anybody else a fan of the ol' killdevil?

*just because everyone expects me to be the first to reply in a thread about alcohol*

Rum is kick ass.

When I drink, which is quite rarely, I often like to enjoy Rum, or brandy. I'm more about the drink than the drinking, me.

wood's navy rum is my prefered choice its a nice dark rum and its only to be drunk neat or maybe with 1 or 2 ice cubes. I also like to drink captain morgan when its been gently warmed and infused wit vanilla cineman star anise and a touch of nutmeg you cant beat it on a cold winter night

I drank too much Captain one New Years Eve....Oh Captain! How I miss you so.

Mmmmmmmm.....rum.

That, bourbon and whisky are the only 3 spirits left I can drink.

And by jeebus I love 'em!

I like Pusser's rum. It's the stuff they used to give to sailers in the Navy.

Oooh, and a nice bottle of Mount Gay or Havana Club wouldn't go amiss either...

Oh yeah, brandy is the second drink of choice; few things in life are finer than a glass of Armagnac (or pear brandy, which I've only had once but intend to investigate more fully eventually).

So far the two rums I always keep in stock are Pyrat XO and Gosling's Black Seal, the former being on the exquisite and mellow end of the spectrum and the latter being on the rough, piratical end.

Anybody love Dark 'n' Stormies? One of the few soda cocktails I drink frequently (I don't like coke, so rum and coke doesn't work for me), although I've lately begun mixing Captain Morgan with coconut soda, which I find works out much better than using a coconut flavored rum.

Coconut soda!?

Wow - that sounds amazing. We get nothing that exciting this side of the pond.....I like rum with pineapple juice. Or over ice with freshly squeezed lime juice, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

I dont really tried out a lots of rum sorts... im sure no expert...but one thing's sure ....
i put rum in every cake i made.. most of drinks.. cola..tea.. its.. addictive ..
you gotta try this recipe : RUM PANCAKES
make pancakes you like the most.. then take honey , rum, and cocoa in 'dust' (one for chocolate milk) and put them in smth ... honey:rum:cocoa= 2:1:2 ...and mix it well ...you'll get smth like a sirup.. and just put it on the pancakes and enjoy

Sailor Jerry's

WildThing, I'll definitely have to try your rum pancakes. One of the things I've started to experiment with is boiling off the alcohol from Appleton V/X rum; what you're left with is a syrupy, incredibly flavorful goo... There was a tiny bit of Pyrat left in the bottom of one of my glasses overnight and the water and alcohol evaporated, but I had to try the sugar...

It's much better than commercially made rum flavoring or extracts, but I'm working on mixing it with other things... Agave syrup is the best candidate so far. I don't have too much money for boiling away my precious rum, though!

Chelly, maybe we're jaded here in landlocked Pennsylvania, but off the top of my head I can name three coconut sodas available at any grocery store, and I believe there are several more at different specialty stores. But we also have a decent Hispanic population in my area so we do have easy access to such flavors. But lime juice is always a great alternative - it kept the British Navy afloat for centuries!

pusser's rum where can i get that i want to get some for my dad he was in the navy from '55 till '84 and he got me onto wood's rum coz he said thats the closest to what he used to be given every day itll be a nice treat if that pusser's is the same stuff he used to get

Sailor Jerry is preferred Rum at uni, (followed by Spiced Rum), but a shot of Sailor's, shot of amaretto in a half pint glass, with coke and a quarter lime, is a lovely drink to enjoy in the sun. Need to get some more though

Mucky , tell me when you try them out ...and yeah...how do you boil off the alcohol.. if you heat up the rum...wont everything go ...away , and what do you do with that rum-syrup ? can it be put on pancakes too ?
tell me , tell me

Well the trick is that alcohol boils at a lower temperature than water (roughly 75 C as opposed to 100 C, if I recall), and the sugars and other delicious flavors won't completely evaporate at low temperature. That's how it's distilled in the first place. It helps to have a candy thermometer so you can monitor the temperature of the water. But since rum is roughly 50% alcohol, if you leave only the water it's thicker. Much of rum's flavor comes from the aging process in barrels (brandy and whiskey barrels are commonly used) so you retain that even after boiling off the alcohol.

I'm still working on proportions and other techniques, right now it's very haphazard, although I imagine if you built a still apparatus you could keep the alcohol to make your own high-proof brews or liqueurs if you want. I may do this in the future.


I haven't got enough for pancakes yet - my original idea was to add other flavors and make a homemade, nonalcoholic soda. But here's something I read a while ago that gave me a good chuckle:
http://www.bilgemunky.com/reviews/rum/blackstrap.php

Your recipe, you use chocolate powder for milk? That has sugar in it, yes? Pure cocoa is really bitter.... Oh I think I'll be trying this very soon.

Ever have rum and gunpowder?

nice one for that info there a victoria wine around the corner to my house so i might have to go and check it out. Thanks.


At work i make a nice rum syrup by making a thick sugar stock syrup thats been spiced (equal parts sugar to water with cineman sticks cloves star anise and a pinch of five spice boiled down to half its original level) then add a rum reduction, it works well on almost everything sweet i love it on waffles and ice cream

it's very rare that i drink rum, but when i do, i always find myself thinking 'why don't i drink this stuff more often?'. Has to be dark rum though, can't stand white or ginger rum. My favourite way to drink rum has to be with fresh orange juice, it's a strange combo, but is very nice! Not being a rum connaseur, i find good old lambs or wood's navy rum does fine!

Fire.Chef, thanks for the recipe! I'll have to try that one out when I make pancakes to try WildThing's!

I used to make a great mango rum glaze, I wish I could remember what went into that one. Basically a standard mango glaze, with added rum, really. I think I'll have to go get another bottle of Appleton's if I'm going to be playing with all these recipes this weekend.

i didnt have my internet for 2 weeks now..so i couldnt answer ... well ...so mucky... i used the chocolate powder for pancakes ..soo sweet :) ...hope you tried it ...
...help me out a bit .. lets say i want to have pancakes with this syrupy rum .. i'll make pancakes as usuall..and then...what do i do ? put some rum in a pot * and heat it up until its syrupy ???
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*or put some pot in the rum