# An astonishingly good rum **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 13, 2007, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817 "2007-01-13T07:11:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/1 "2007-01-13T07:11:33Z")
Introduces itself as _Ron Zacapa Centenario_. 23 year old rum, from Guatemala. Dark as molasses. Heavy, sweet, smooth. DAMN this stuff is good. It’s totallly rum; if you don’t embrace rum at all, it might still change your mind but the real appeal is going to be for folks who have enjoyed good añejo rums for smooth sipping. Folks, there’s a new captain and the ship is going places it hasn’t been before. I’ve always enjoyed a decent rum, e.g, a bottle of Bacardi Añejo, but it never stacked up against really really good tequilas, bourbons, and scotches. This rum comes to that table and sticks its elbows out and says “make room”. (Disclaimer: It is of course entirely possible that serious rum drinkers know of great rums and would laugh at both Ron Bacardi Añejo as a baseline and at Ron Zapaca as the new sheriff in town. If such folk are on the board, instruct as you disparage, please) Wow this stuff is nice. ---
**Author:** ![A.R.Cane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ee7513/32.png) [@A.R.Cane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A.R.Cane)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/2 "2007-01-13T07:24:32Z")
Dark rums have much more flavor. I lived in Bermuda in the 70’s and picked up a taste for Goslings. Good stuff. > **[Home Goslings Black Seal Rum - Goslings Rum](https://www.goslingsrum.com/)** > > Goslings Black Seal Rum, founded in 1806, is the official rum of Bermuda and the signature Dark 'n Stormy ® cocktail. #DareToBeHappy ---
**Author:** ![JillGat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9fc29f/32.png) [@JillGat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JillGat)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/3 "2007-01-13T08:21:37Z")
Try the [El Dorado Demerara rums from Guyana](http://www.internetwines.com/rws23843.html). The one aged 12 years is fairly cheap and very good. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/4 "2007-01-13T09:54:53Z")
Damn, **AHunter3** , just your description is making my mouth water. Rum is the only hard liquor I’ve ever been able to take straight. I recently moved up from Bacardi to Myers. Dark rum \*is \* more flavorful. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/5 "2007-01-13T12:33:46Z")
I recently got 2 bottles of good Australian OP rum really cheap at a bottle shop that was closing down. I don’t usually drink rum and just got it as a mixer but someone told me to try it straight with ice and it was great. I decided to buy my father a swish bottle of rum rather than Scotch for Christmas and found [this Forbes article](http://www.forbes.com/2005/08/01/rum-lifestyle-passmore-cx_np_0802feat_ls.html) which lauds the rum in the OP. All I could find locally was the Mount Gay. I will have to see what it is like. ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/6 "2007-01-13T13:17:39Z")
My favorite rum in general is Mayers’s dark. But I’ve picked up a couple bottles of something called Flor de Canya in Nicaragua before that was mighty fine stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/7 "2007-01-13T14:04:21Z")
Off to the food and drink forum. Moved from IMHO to CS. ---
**Author:** ![Sapo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ec9cab/32.png) [@Sapo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sapo)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/8 "2007-01-13T14:17:56Z")
If you are serious about enjoying rum, I suggest you give Venezuelan rums a try. Pampero Aniversario is a good place to start (most people feel no need to keep trying, it is that good). Ocumare is another good house with several different products. Neither should be terribly hard to find in NY and they are not too expensive. ---
**Author:** ![Fritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c57346/32.png) [@Fritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fritz)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/9 "2007-01-13T17:02:24Z")
[QUOTE=Siam Sam] My favorite rum in general is Mayers’s dark. But I’ve picked up a couple bottles of something called Flor de Canya in Nicaragua before that was mighty fine stuff. [/QUOTE] I haven’t had it in a long time, but Flor de Canya is one of favorites too. ---
**Author:** ![Random](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/57b2e6/32.png) [@Random](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Random)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/10 "2007-01-13T17:42:16Z")
[QUOTE=Fritz] I haven’t had it in a long time, but Flor de Canya is one of favorites too. [/QUOTE] I agree. ---
**Author:** ![lokij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/5e9695/32.png) [@lokij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lokij)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/11 "2007-01-13T19:13:51Z")
There is a new distillery here in Tennessee that is making rum, very very nice rum that’s a bit different from the Carribean and Central American rums. [Prichard’s Fine Rum](http://www.prichardsdistillery.com/pages/distillery.html) It’s a very small operation and the website isn’t kidding when it says it’s like a brandy or cognac. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2007, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/12 "2007-01-13T20:12:28Z")
The only mixing rum I’ll allow in the house is Mount Gay Eclipse. Their Extra Old is a mighty fine sipper, as well. ---
**Author:** ![Hunter\_Hawk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/50afbb/32.png) [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2007, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/an-astonishingly-good-rum/387817/13 "2007-01-14T00:35:40Z")
If you like the Ron Zacapa, you should also try the Zaya dark rum.