What kind of Rum do you prefer to pair with your coke?

[Pierre.Suave]

I have tried a few varieties over my life, Captain, Meyers, and Bacardi come to mind. Right now I am using some Bacardi Superior.

Give me your favorites.

[malta blue]

1. There was a time where I

did Bacardi vanilla with diet coke and it was like a cream soda - very dangerous :D

I actually prefer Gosling's Black Seal rum mixed with ginger beer...a "dark n stormy"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gosling's_Rum

[Pierre.Suave]

2. I have found that

the more an alcoholic drink tastes unlike alcohol, the easier it is to get completely wasted drinking them.

[malta blue]

8. hence the dangerous "cream soda"

:rofl:

I don't drink much hard liquor these days - mostly about the wine.

[Pierre.Suave]

11. I love my Scotch and Whiskey

and the Scotch Whiskeys...

:P

[Broken_Hero]

3. Bacardi, nt

[Pierre.Suave]

5. There was a time when

the Meyers Dark Rum was my favorite, but I keep coming back to Bacardi.

[Broken_Hero]

7. For me, its reliable, nothing to bad with it

I prefer mixing mine with Mt.Dew/Citrus juices though....

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. I wouldn't drink rum of low enough quality that it needs to be paired with Coke.

[Pierre.Suave]

9. Every now and then I go slumming

put down the bottle of Johnny Walker Blue or a good aged Glenlivet and drink a rum and coke... SO sue me...

:P

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. Then in that case, might as well get the cheapest, shittiest rum you can find, like Bacardi

[Pierre.Suave]

19. ROFL

What are good varieties, and how do you drink them?

[Rabrrrrrr]

24. I like the Ron Matusalem Platino.

I don't drink much rum, so have little experience with it, but I found this one a few years ago and really like it.

It's good straight, or, of course, in the always refreshing Daiquiri (not that blended shit, but a real one) and the even more refreshing and wonderful Hemingway Daiquiri. This rum makes a wonderful of both.

[Pierre.Suave]

30. I should go to the store and track down some good rum

just to see what I think of it.

[Squatch]

37. Abso-fucking-lutely.

Who are these plebeians? :shrug:

[KamaAina]

6. Old New Orleans Amber

alas, only available in and around its eponymous city.

A bottle of that and a hotel room eight floors above the French Quarter. Ahhhhhhhhh....

P.S. Bad jasonc! :spank: Bacardi supports the insane Cuban embargo and helped write the batshit insane Helms-Burton Act.

edit: caps

[Pierre.Suave]

10. I did not know that

and how would I know that?

[KamaAina]

13. Well, you could look here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacardi#Opposition_to_Castro

The Bacardi family (and hence, the company) maintained a fierce opposition to Fidel Castro's revolution in Cuba in the 1960s. In his book, 'Bacardi, The Hidden War', Hernando Calvo Ospina outlines the political element to the family's money. Ospina describes how the Bacardi family and company left Cuba after it became clear that Castro was serious about his pledges for change; in particular, in nationalizing and banning all private property on the island as well as all bank accounts. However, the company had started foreign branches a few years prior to the revolution; the company moved the all important Bacardi international trademarks out of the country to the Bahamas prior to the revolution as a well as constructing a plant in Puerto Rico after the prohibition era to save in import taxes for rum being imported to the USA. This helped the company survive after the communist government nationalized all Bacardi assets in the country.

Ospina also explains the close ties Bacardi family members had to the US political elite, as well as organizations of state such as the CIA. It is also known that the Bacardi family funded various Cuban exile organizations based in such as CANF

Embittered Bacardi helmsman Jose Pepin Bosch bought a surplus B-26 bomber with the hopes of bombing Cuban oil refineries (the bold plan was foiled when a picture of the bomber appeared on the front page of The New York Times). He was also allegedly involved in the CIA plot to assassinate Fidel Castro; documents uncovered during Congressional investigations into John F. Kennedy's death bring to light a message outlining how he had plans to assassinate Castro, his brother (Raúl Castro) and Che Guevara. The RECE (Cuban Representation in Exile) also receives funding from Bacardi family members.

More recently, Bacardi lawyers were influential in the drafting of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act which sought to extend the scope of the United States embargo against Cuba. In 1999 Otto Reich, a lobbyist in Washington on behalf of Bacardi Rum, drafted section 211 of the 1999 Omnibus appropriations act, a bill that became known as the Bacardi Act. Section 211 denied trademark protection to Cuban businesses products expropriated after the Cuban revolution, a provision keenly sought by the Bacardi family. The act was aimed primarily at Havana Club brand in America, which had been registered by the Cuban government. Section 211 has been challenged un-successfully by the Cuban government and the European Union in US courts; however, the act has been ruled illegal by the WTO (August 2001). The U.S. Congress has yet to re-examine the matter. Bacardi's political activities have led to the creation of a 'Boycott Bacardi' campaign in the UK, which has been largely unsuccessful.

:scared: :scared: :scared:

For everyday use, I mostly use whatever rotgut is on special, anyway; out here, that'd be Hana Bay, Trader Vic's, or the dreaded Island Pride, available only at Longs drug stores and the last stop before paint thinner.

edit: removed confusing Wiki square brackets

[Pierre.Suave]

17. Wiki is a good place

I just never think to go there and investigate the political activities of companies that produce stuff I buy.

[TZ]

12. Capt Morgan and Bacardi...

I went to Puerto Rico a few years ago...almost went to the Bacardi plant but didn't ge arournd to it..Still there was lots of pretty cheap, delicious rum.

[Pierre.Suave]

14. Of the two

I prefer the Bacardi.

[JTG of the PRB]

16. Bacardi Silver.

I like the silver rum better than the other variety. Tastes smoother to my wussy palate.

[Pierre.Suave]

20. I wonder what the difference is

[JTG of the PRB]

26. Brown stuff?

:shrug:

[Cant trust em]

18. Me and the Captain. Makin' it happen. NT

[Pierre.Suave]

21. I know a girl that loves

Parrot Bay coconut rum...get her some of that and she will do anything you want...

and I wish I was kidding...

[harmonicon]

22. whatever is free or cheap as hell

Rum and Coke is not a drink that anyone should pay for, unless it's incredibly cheap.

[Pierre.Suave]

27. It is one of my favorites when

I do not want to taste the alcohol.

[Haole Girl]

23. Rum & I don't get along very well

:-(

[Pierre.Suave]

28. I feel that way about Tequila

not only does it give me horrendous hangovers, but it makes me do things I would not normally do, such as bring a married woman home from the bar with me. In my defense, she waited until the next morning to tell me that not only was she married, but also that her husband was a local sheriffs deputy...


I do not want to repeat that again...

[Haole Girl]

36. Oh my...

I nearly got banned from DU the last time I drank rum. Never touched it again. I think I liked the taste too much! ;-)

Oh, btw, glad you lived to tell that story!
:rofl:

[Pierre.Suave]

38. So am I

:rofl:

[Fox Mulder]

25. Forget the Coke.

I'll take the rum straight up. I don't care what kind it is as long as it gets me drunk and makes me pass out.

[Pierre.Suave]

29. I see

I like to at least enjoy the ride...

:P

[khashka]

31. I don't drink and snort coke at the same time

Khash.

[Pierre.Suave]

32. You are really missing out then

:P

[Canuckistanian]

33. Havana Club

As a product of communist Cuba, it's probably not available in your country.

And I'm talking about the ORIGINAL Havana Club, NOT the imitation, stolen Bacardi "Havana Club" brand.

[grannylib]

34. I do like Bacardi, but I'll go with Phillips or something most of the

time. We don't drink hard liquor much, so I usually just get a small bottle, on those rare occasions when someone feels like a mixed drink. Hubby tends to prefer beer (or margaritas, but I hate tequila, ish) and I prefer wine, or my FAVORITE, Bartender's Best Ever Kick Ass Mudslide.

And even that, a bottle will last me a month, easy.

[NMDemDist2]

35. i could never mix booze and bubbles. no Coke, no 7up, no Collins mix

give me water or juice only.

Bubbles made me :puke:

but, of course, YMMV

[lumberingbear]

39. Mount Gay, of course....

Mount Gay
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mount Gay Barbados Sugar Cane RumMount Gay Rum is produced by Mount Gay Distilleries Ltd. of Barbados. In 2003 the company celebrated its 300th anniversary of the Mount Gay Rum product which it first produced in 1703, making it one of the oldest. Mount Gay Rum is sold in 66 countries but the primary market remains the USA. Several varieties are produced, including White, Extra Old, flavored (both mango and vanilla flavors are produced), as well as the flagship brand: Mount Gay Eclipse.

Mount Gay Rum is closely associated with sailing. Tales were told of sailors returning home with a barrel of Mount Gay in order to prove that they had reached Barbados - considered one of the most difficult islands in the Caribbean to reach. Today, the Mount Gay rum company is one of the main sponsors of the United States Sailing Association. <1> They also sponsor over 110 regatta events worldwide, with approximately 50 of those being based in the United States. Mount Gay is also one of the key ingredients in Stirling Punch, a drink named for famous yachtsman, America's Cup winner and Vanderbilt Sailing Club founder Harold Stirling Vanderbilt.

In 2007 Mount Gay was rated as being the favourite rum of America's "rich and famous". The rum was chosen as the winner of the 2007 Luxury Institute's "Luxury Brand Status Index" (LBSI) survey for premium rum.

The first drink James Bond orders in Casino Royale (2006) is not his trademark martini but a Mount Gay rum and soda.

Mount Gay Sugar Cane Brandy, a careful blend of specially selected rums of age up to seven years, is a fine product whose link with the sugar cane of Barbados is proudly reflected in its character. Not to be confused with generic 'brandy', the product is entirely rum. The name is a legacy from times when the product contained such a high proportion of double distillate that its organoleptic characteristics were much like those of brandy. In some markets, because of legal restrictions, the name ' Sugar Cane Rum' is used in place of the original name 'Sugar Cane Brandy'. (From the Mount Gay Rum website)

Mount Gay produces a "Pure Sugar Cane Rum" occasionally known outside of the US market as "Sugar Cane Brandy".

"With sugar cane having been so long the lifeblood of Mt Gay, and one might suggest, of Barbados as well, Its fitting that a great rum should commemorate its qualities. Sugar Cane Rum is the result of a rigorous adherence to tradition, a continuing commitment to quality. A rich amber spirit, with a subtle sweetness, Sugar Cane Rum offers a harmonious fusion of vanilla and bitter almond in its taste, with a hint of smoky wood in the nose. The combination is achieved by deft blending of single distilled and double distilled rums of several ages, and by meticulous storage in charred oak barrels. The barrels come from Kentucky, US, and are used to age bourbon before they are used to age Mount Gay Rum. Such are the qualities of Sugar Cane Rum from Mount Gay. The world's oldest distillery dating back to 1703. Consistently smooth. Full bodied. Unique. An homage to the cane." From the Sugar Cane Label.

[Pierre.Suave]

40. I will have to try some of that

[Divameow77]

41. I really like

Appleton's Jamaican Rum, it's pretty cheap and good. I don't really drink rum that much, more of a vodka girl.

[underpants]

42. You are paying for it so you might as well have some Bacardi

Look into the Barcadi influence in Florida especially with Jeb