Tag: Rum

  • Rhum Clement Premiere Canne

    Seeing as this week’s cocktail, El Presidente, calls for white rum it seems a perfect time to review one I got in the mail some time back, Rhum Clement Premiere Canne.  Rhum Clement is a rhum agricole meaning  that it’s distilled from sugar cane juice rather than molasses.  Like Cachaca this gives Rhum Clement a…

  • Cruzan Black Strap Rum

    As I started looking into the Corn N’ Oil cocktail one rum kept rising to the surface as the suggested dark rum for the drink.  Nearly everything I saw said that this cocktail is as great as it is due largely in part to Cruzan Black Strap Rum.  I’d tasted other Cruzan products in the…

  • Rum Suggestions from a Master

    When I started Cocktail Hacker a little over a year ago my liquor shopping trips were strategic in nature, now it’s a decidedly more tactical affair.  In times past I would go to the store some times with a goal, more often not, and I would come home with spirits that sounded like they might…