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Review: Renegade Rums – Aura, Nova, Dunfermline, and Hope – Swimming Pool

Drinkhacker

Drew has been dutifully chronicling the many releases of the terroir-obsessed Renegade Rum , a Grenada-based operation that specializes in products with incredibly specific provenances. Pure and inviting, the rum has a power on the palate that wanders through coconut husk, green pineapple, and touches of florals. All 700ml bottles.

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The Top 10 Rums of 2023

Drinkhacker

Top shelf rum is becoming easier and easier to find — and harder and harder to pin down into a cohesive top 10 list. Sadly, many of the price tags on these rums are fairly luxe — with bottles nearly 30 years old, single barrels, one-off experiments, or all of the above. 500 [ BUY IT NOW FROM RESERVEBAR ] 3. 99 proof. $75

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Like Making Music: The Secrets of Canadian Whisky with Found North Blender Nick Taylor

Drinkhacker

We started in 2020, right as Covid hit. In the last 10 years, you have all of these non-whisky categories like rum and agave being consumed by serious whisky drinkers under the conditions of transparency. Look at Foursquare Rum. By 2020 when there were about 1.7 Drinkhacker: How did Found North come about?

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GSN Review: Bushwacker Coconut Rum Cream

Good Spirits News

In 2020, Bushwacker Spirits put Bushwacker in a ready to drink bottle for the first time in its long history. Impressively creamy with just the right smount of rum, we’ve kept going back for more. How you enjoy it is what is most important.” This tropical tinted drink conjurs up a southeastern coastal vacation in a glass.

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GSN Review: Goslings Spirited Seas Ocean Aged Rum

Good Spirits News

Goslings Spirited Seas Ocean Aged Rum (44% ABV) was aged across the Atlantic and celebrates ocean adventures and Goslings’ origins on the island of Bermuda. In 2020, Goslings sent 60 once-used bourbon barrels filled with a proprietary blend of aged dark Bermuda rum on board the Oleander. eighth generation rum maker.

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Where to Drink in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

Imbibe Magazine

Once acquainted with makgeolli, don’t sleep on the cocktails, like the stellar Sesame Sour (Takju 16 makgeolli, white rum, pineapple, yuzu, vinegar, soy sauce, Suze, sesame, egg white). If you’ve never tasted makgeolli before, opt for a flight of ferments that range from creamy and fizzy to rich and sherry-like.

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New Releases: Chattanooga, Shelter Distilling, & Old Forester

The Whiskey Wash

New American whiskey and bourbon releases include a Bottled-in-Bond expression from Chattanooga, a peated expression from Shelter Distilling, and a rum finish from Old Forester. The new straight bourbon whiskey was distilled at Chattanooga ’s Riverfront Distillery barreled from January 2020 through to June of the same year.

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