It’s not explicitly clear that this is the same company, recipe, facility or really anything to be tied to Andrew Cabot. (Quick Research Break) Ahh, it’s the ancestor of the current owner – okay that’s enough. Sadly if we had to sum up this rum that phrase ‘that’s enough’ is oddly poetic.
Right. So here at Honest Booze Reviews often a bottle is grabbed based solely on the criteria ‘don’t recognize that’. Now often this can mean we’ll end up with some weird things like vodka finished in cognac, berry gins, and peach whiskies. These by virtue of being offshoots with no baseline end up just not being reviewed. This however we decided we should dig into. We’ve often said that some high tier and well-aged rums or cognacs share a lot of similarities to whiskey. So what about this?
We’ve tried it spiced, but how does it fare clear? In short, it’s better, but then that bar was already on the lower side. You can already see the massive amount of sugarcane imparted into this spirit that will eventually mellow and ruin its spiced cousin. You can actually enjoy this in cola though so at least it has that going for it.
Bacardi has graced our shores a few times, and whether it comes Gold, White, Spiced, of screaming in hellfire they’ve always had a slight around average rum. So we were expecting more of the same for the black. Of course, we knew it would be no Kraken, but what actually poured into the glass was truly surprising. It was utter shit.
We know coming to a rum that it likely has better purchase at some sort of festival or gathering, This is partly because at least when it comes to our reviews we have reservations about something from the state of Florida. Here though we get a rum, aged uniquely in bourbon barrels, and it’s okay?
We realize that it’s rare a spirit can be spooky (phrasing?), and as such, this really should be saved for the Halloween posting, but it’s April 1st so this is a joke? Either way, this rum is a bit of a terror. It says little, has a creepy vibe, and it’s strong enough to make your clothes fall off to the point where you become a slutty fortnite player? (We don’t do costume parties). It does, however, have some good bits to it.
We have another near no-name brand, owned by the Suntory, a bottom of the shelf rum. Now, sure enough, there will be someone in the comments saying – oh you hate this because it’s low-tier because we’re snooty. We truly and honestly wish this was better, and having gotten rums before like DonQ at the same price we were hoping for it. That hope is dead.
We should mention at the top that we are a Massachusettes based review site, we should also mention that as far as craft dstilleries go – Mass can go fuck itself. We are impartial and not above giving places like Berkshire a 4. We say this so that when we give this the score it deserves you know we do it impartially.
We have a confession to make. It’s that despite running for near on 6+ years – we are reviewing this – in 2019. It’s sad, it’s profane, and a bit weird. However, despite mentioning it, despite reviewing multiple versions of the rum (even a special pumpkin version) – we haven’t actually reviewed the original – the basic Captain Morgan.
We here are big fans of Louisana. Any place with that much impact on food and music culture (and is actually good) is something we can wholeheartedly stand by. This rum, however, we wouldn’t stand by from the first sign of a light breeze. If you ever wondered what happens when you lean into the sugar cane too far – you’ve arrived.
