The best rum

[Jim Cornwell]

This has been an enjoyable thread and helped get lots of us through a miserable winter! All rums have their virtues (save the "Fire In Da Hole" variety, perhaps). So I'm on board with the idea that the best rum is the one you're currently sharing with good friends - especially if its theirs! BTW, the suggestion about rum being produced in East Taunton may have a bit of truth to it, because that's how the Triangle Trade worked in days gone by! Jim.

[Oswego John]

I humbly submit that the best rum of all times is the rum in your glass while the question is being considered!

So Ed, what was the name of that "heap strong fire water" you, Rit and myself drank with all of the other boat owners at Waterford, at the end/beginning of the Erie Canal? Whew!!!

O J

[Sea Hunt Video]

http://www.rumrenaissance.com/

I shall investigate and report back - if I make it back.

[bottomscraper]

Yo-ho-ho Robert? Did you make it back?

http://www.rumrenaissance.com/

I shall investigate and report back - if I make it back.

[Sea Hunt Video]

Rich:

Yes, I did make it back although I am not sure how. As for the festival I have very limited memory of it. I am not sure why. I do remember several "tastings" but it is all a little fuzzy after that. Sorry.

If I bought anything at the festival it did not make it home. I checked. "Medicinal supply" cabinet is empty.

[frankfurder]

Cruzan Black Strap. No doubt.

[Ed Haley]

So Ed, what was the name of that "heap strong fire water" you, Rit and myself drank with all of the other boat owners at Waterford, at the end/beginning of the Erie Canal? Whew!!!

O J

You know, OJ, Rit always had his favorite of anything but it was usually what he had aboard. When I sailed with him, I brought along Pussers, Captain Morgan Black, Goslings or some such rum that I grabbed at the store. I wasn't partial. In fact, we must have gone thru a six-pack of rum on that short week long sail. We were carried back to our yesteryears as we stood on LaVida's deck pumping our fists trying to get a trucker along the thruway to toggle his horn. We even did it to trains and we usually got a response. But the kicker was when we "pumped" a Carnival Cruise ship near Albany and he obliged us. We were the top crew. I think the captain of that ship would have changed places with us in a heartbeat cause he recognized that we were having the fun of our lives again, even if we had to relinquish 50 years or so to our real ages.

But Annie was the icing on the cake. What a gal! She took us to heart after I kept singing to her that old song Rusty Warren used to sing - "Knockers up!" But try as I may, she took a shine to you when you gave her that lusty with those leprechaun blues. She gave you the best meal of your sailing life when we walked into her life that morning. She probably still harbors a grudge that you didn't stow her aboard when Rit was cleaning the scuppers. Oh, well. We have to let some get away so that others can have stories to tell. As long as we can corner a few fun-filled memories that are spiced up with a little Captain Morgan. Or Pussers. Or Gosling ......

[Russell]

Found this yesterday, haven't tried it yet, but I couldn't pass on it as the photo on the bottle is the same view as where I am currently anchored.

[tjr818]

Russell, I think you should slow down, try drinking it out of a glass

[Russell]

Russell, I think you should slow down, try drinking it out of a glass

Haha, don't worry, I almost always use a glass.

[tjr818]

Russell,
Let us know how that rum tastes.

[pjust]

Acting out of a dispassionate desire to contribute to this important search for rumvana I bought a bottle of Newfoundland "Screech" rum yesterday. Though bottled in Newfoundland and marketed in Canada and New England it's actually a dark rum distilled in Jamaica and seems a lot like Meyer's but with a more pronounced molasses flavor. To me it was just shy of being a very smooth sipping rum, but went down fine on the rocks. I haven't tried, but I'll bet it makes a dandy Dark 'n' Stormy. At $18 I thought it was pretty good value.

[Russell]

The Providencia rum tasted terrible, but this stuff is pretty good (this is the cheap Panama rum, I dont go for expensive stuff, rum by its definition is supposed to be cheap stuff made in the West Indies rather then the fancy stuff in Europe).

[wsfanning]

Perhaps favorite rums are like boats, mine is the best. I started my Typhoon refit with a bottle of Cuban Matusalem and loved it. It's gone now and I'm on a bottle of Venezuelan Santa Teresa, another fave. But this boat is going in the water like real soon and that bottle's going aboard! or else!