Capn Jimbo's Rum Project Forum

Hello, and thank you for your observations. Indeed taste and palate are key factors that, for the inexperienced such as myself, require patience to develop. I find it remarkable how taste itself can vary from time to time, even for the same bottle of rum. I'm definitely curious to try rums in the 3 ...

No matter how pricey or good quality the rum, recently I've developed a dislike for a common aroma in aged rums, I can only define as "burnt" or "charred". Liquid smoke comes to mind as well. It seems this aroma is inherently part of any aged rum's production process, as charring...

Hello, having just ended my first bottle of Barbancourt 5*, I'd like to follow up on my initial thoughts above. For 43% alcohol by volume, the delivery feels clean, sincere and, for it's price range, rather refined. Defining aromas alongside a pleasantly sweet, floreal, rum flavor are butterscotch, ...

Hi BladeRummer, I appreciate your welcoming me, and the tip, I may try that sometime. The bottle indeed has been a recent acquisition, but already about half way down, in itself implying Barbancourt 5 * is not bad at all. :) I'll let you know if it improves from now on. Actually, it has called out t...

Hi all, To begin I'd like to thank Capn Jimbo for publishing the Masterlist of rum sugar testing - a fine reference that's guiding my rum purchases since discovering it. For years I had managed just fine with aged spirits available at most supermarkets in Italy, in the likes of Pampero Anniversario ...