Though I live in Bundaberg I think the Rum produced here is very ordinary to say the least. Yes the ownership has changed and they are on an aggressive marketing campaign with limited edition releases etc but Caribbean Rum is hard to beat.

Mount Gay Genuine Eclipse Barbados Rum with the map of the Island on the label has always been my favourite but I have not seen it for a while.

When I lived in New Zealand for 3 years my girlfriend worked at Newton King Wine and Spirits Liquor Shop and would bring home a bottle of Angostura Old Oak Rum every week (free). I have to say it is the finest Rum I have ever slurped.

Another Rum she would bring home was Appleton Reserve in the stone bottle with the finger loop. Regarded as one of the finest I never did think it was as fine as Old Oak.

In 1977-78 (pre computer and email days) with a bottle of Old Oak, I would sit down and drink the whole bottle straight and write my letters home. Never a hangover in the morning. Up at 5 and off to work. I would often take a bottle to work on the pipeline and four of us would polish it off with milk coffee before lunch to keep the cold at bay.

Tonight I am drinking Sailor Jerry spiced Rum. Another current favourite is Old J. It is Caribbean Rum that is taken to the UK and spiced with vanilla added. A fine drop I must say.

My best mate is partial to Neghrita Spiced Rum and it is great.

What is your favbourite??

When passing through Bundy many years ago I found a few old people I knew that used to come down to Vic for the fruit season .
They worked at bundy rum and at a party I attended at Bundy back then they produced some thing they described as the bottom of the barrel .
Well I just hope Bubbles bottle he sent me is not quite as strong.

Best Christmas pudding was made by a Jamaican mum .her son I work with and she sent it over to him . She would make the pudding and hang it from a tree for months and it was continually soak in Jamaican rum and hung back on the tree I had a taste like heaven and two pieces would put you way over .05

I make my own starting with stock feed molasses from Condong sugar mill.

Usually I make five 25L batches in the fermenter. About 25% of the lees from the first batch (after distilling) goes into the second fermenter, and so on until the last one. This helps build up flavour.
After collecting approx. 5L from each batch on a stripping run, I put it all back into the still for a final spirit run, making careful cuts on the heads and tails. This is important for flavour and not getting hangovers from undesirable compounds.

This is then watered down to 65%ABV and matured on oak for as long as it lasts! Then it's bottled at about 40%.
It's pretty damned good.

This is the home made pot still. Very important to use a pot still to get the flavour.

Qld you can legally brew your own

HG02 said..
Qld you can legally brew your own

nope. but as long as you don't sell i have never heard of anyone getting into trouble.

Sorry folks, but I'm not fussy

Cheers!

I think rum is horrible :P.

Jack Daniels for me

Captain Morgan's spiced Rum with dry ginger ale and lime in Winter and Coopers clear beer in the summer.

I've never liked Rum... American Honey... G & T... Pear Cider... Baileys.... My favourite Port from up Tenterfield way... Deetswood Platypus Port... or even better.. white port.

A good wine when someone good to share it with.

Can easily go for months without any alcohol at all...

Some one better stick up for the local product. I am sticking with the good old Bundy under proof rum.

Another one for Captain Morgan or Mt Gay rum. Locally I don't mind Inner Circle Rum. Not mixed with Coke, much prefer an on board version of a Mojito. Rum, lime, soda water, ice and a sprig of mint. Yum!

Hello Cisco, have you tried Bundy OP. Been drinking is for a while and now am not able to drink the standard stuff. The Flavour of the OP is a lot better even in half measures (so you don't fall off the chair too soon). Even my sons, who seem to enjoys drinking my rum won't go near the ordinary stuff and can be safely left in the cupboard with out the level mysteriously dropping. The misses even now only used the OP when making rum balls.

Crusoe said..
Hello Cisco, have you tried Bundy OP. Been drinking is for a while and now am not able to drink the standard stuff. The Flavour of the OP is a lot better even in half measures (so you don't fall off the chair too soon). Even my sons, who seem to enjoys drinking my rum won't go near the ordinary stuff and can be safely left in the cupboard with out the level mysteriously dropping. The misses even now only used the OP when making rum balls.

Since Fosters sold the Bundaberg Rum Distillery the new owners have been on a quite aggressive marketing campaign by putting out "Limited Editions" and new variations. One they call "Mutiny Rum" is not a bad drop. They also have "Tropicals". I think they are getting better.

Well rum is mother milk to sailors
Probably started at Uni sailing sharpies where we were introduced to the health benefits of rum at inter varsity sailing competitions
I grew up sailing 14 Ft skiffs and each nationals we would get a rubbish bin and fill it with bundy and coke and drink till we couldn't stand, great fun and made a lot of good friends. My mate Motor say the perfect ratio is one bottle rum to one bottle coke. Hold the ice.
When doing the Raja Muda regatta a couple of years ago we would start the race of about 100 miles generally over night with a teapot full of navy rum and coke and just keep topping it up as we went along great fun.
Wound up in the Caribbean in the late 90 s and tried a lot of good local rums one of the best being Matchachuri rum which was distilled in a shed powered by a water wheel from the local creek, the owner was a great guy with dreadlocks and good old rasta attitude. Great rum.

Just got back from twilight race where we had some Holey Dollar rum distilled by local identity Stuart Gilbert, champion sailor and all around good guy, he also started Inner circle rum.
It was great and although no wind we enjoyed ourselves immensely trying to prove how much better we were at starting in no wind than everybody else.
Where would we be without Rum I guess stuck trying to drink Bourbon
I don't hear Jimmy Buffet singing about Bourbon so it can't be a sailors drink.
I am partial to single malt though that is another story, Scotland is a great place to sail and drink
Cheers

I don't drink spirits any more . Beer and the occasional wine , with more than the occasional "whine" is my poison . This is tonight's neck oil .