{"id":1053,"date":"2013-07-10T11:07:18","date_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:07:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/?p=1053"},"modified":"2013-07-10T11:20:27","modified_gmt":"2013-07-10T16:20:27","slug":"10-best-american-rums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/10-best-american-rums\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Best American Rums"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/category\/rumjournal\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/rj.jpg\" width=\"432\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>According to Caribbean Journal&#8217;s <a title=\"Rum Journal's 10 Best American Rums\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rum-journal-the-10-best-american-rums\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rum Journal<\/a>, I have a sample of one of the best rums in the country:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a title=\"Rum Journal's Review of Prichard's Fine Aged Rum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rum-journal-the-10-best-american-rums\/9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Prichard&#8217;s Fine Aged Rum<\/a> (Kelso, TN) &#8211; Tennessee is known for another fine spirit, but it\u2019s quickly developing into a home for rum. One of the best is Prichard\u2019s, which makes a range of rums, including a range of flavoured rums. But the Fine Aged Rum is the best of the bunch.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The only other mainland rums I&#8217;ve had are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><a title=\"Rank Wildcat Sweet Crude\" href=\"http:\/\/rankwildcat.com\/page-full.php\/product\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sweet Crude<\/a> (Broussard, LA) &#8211; Hailing from my homeland, this rum was introduced last year in south Louisiana. \u00a0I&#8217;ll be posting a tasting of this one at some point, but it&#8217;s not worth looking for yet. \u00a0I still hold out hope for this craft distillery to produce something noteworthy&#8230; even rooting for them!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Copper Run Gold Rum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.copperrundistillery.com\/rum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Copper Run Gold Rum<\/a> (Walnut Shade, MO) &#8211; This is a decent rum, but overpriced.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So, it looks like I need to branch out a bit. \u00a0There are some interesting mentions in the article and I plan to actively pursue bottles of these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Siesta Key Spiced Rum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rum-journal-the-10-best-american-rums\/3\/\" target=\"_blank\">Siesta Key Spiced Rum<\/a> (Sarasota, FL) &#8211; Rum Journal named Siesta Key Rum our spiced rum of the year in 2012, meaning it wasn\u2019t just the best American spiced rum \u2014 it was the best spiced rum period. And so it remains. (Siesta Key\u2019s other varieties, including spiced and gold, are also excellent).<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Dancing Pines Cask Rum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rum-journal-the-10-best-american-rums\/4\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dancing Pines Cask Rum<\/a> (Loveland, CO) &#8211; Dancing Pines makes three rums, including a light and a spiced variety, but the cask rum is our favourite. It\u2019s made from cane molasses and distilled in charred oak barrels. It\u2019s got strong notes of caramel, toffee and malt.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Sammy's Beach Bar Rum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.caribjournal.com\/2013\/07\/04\/rum-journal-the-10-best-american-rums\/5\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy&#8217;s Beach Bar Rum<\/a> (Maui, HI) &#8211; Made by Sammy Hagar, the legendary frontman of Van Halen, Sammy\u2019s Beach Bar rum is actually a rhum agricole, meaning it\u2019s distilled from sugar cane juice in the style of rums from Martinique. It\u2019s fresh, it\u2019s Hawaiian and it\u2019s delicious.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Caribbean Journal&#8217;s Rum Journal, I have a sample of one of the best rums in the country: Prichard&#8217;s Fine Aged Rum (Kelso, TN) &#8211; Tennessee is known for another fine spirit, but it\u2019s quickly developing into a home for rum. One of the best is Prichard\u2019s, which makes a range of rums, including &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/2013\/07\/10-best-american-rums\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[92,99,95,96,94,93,97,23],"class_list":["post-1053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rum","tag-american-rum","tag-copper-run","tag-dancing-pines","tag-drum-circle","tag-haliimaile","tag-prichards","tag-rank-wildcat","tag-rhum-agricole"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p364aH-gZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1053"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1055,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1053\/revisions\/1055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mark.abear.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}