Plantation Jamaican Rum Xaymaca Special Dry
This pot still rum from multiple Jamaican distilleries gave us strong notes of solvent and smoke, with hints of caramel, banana, brine, ginger and medicine.
Myers’s Original Dark Rum
This pot column blend from multiple Jamaican distilleries gave us notes of banana and baking spice, with hints of chocolate, pie crust, coffee, and rubber.
Smuggler’s Reserve Jamaica
This pot column blend from multiple Jamaican distilleries gave us notes of tropical fruit and butterscotch, with subtler hints of solvent, strawberry, pineapple, coconut, and baking spice.
Worthy Park 109
This pot still rum from Worthy Park Estate in Jamaica gave us strong notes of toasted sugar and banana, with subtler hints of oak, orange, pineapple, allspice, and vanilla.
Blackwell Fine Jamaican Rum
This pot column blend from Appleton Estate in Jamaica gave us strong notes of caramel of chocolate, with hints of vanilla, brown sugar, ethanol, bitterness, and molasses.
Hamilton Jamaican Pot Still Gold Rum
This unaged pot still distilled by Worthy Park in Jamaica and bottled by Ed Hamilton’s Ministry of Rum gave us notes of butter, grass and sweat, with hints of cream, flowershop, leather, and coconut.
Cane Island Jamaica Rum
This pot column blend from multiple distilleries in Jamaica gave us notes of molasses and solvent, with subtler hints of pineapple, green apple, caramel, banana bread and vanilla.
Appleton Estate Signature
This pot column blend from Appleton Estate in Jamaican gave us strong notes of brown sugar and wood, with subtler hints of caramel, cinnamon, pineapple, orange peel and glue.
Smith & Cross Traditional Jamaica Rum
This iconic pot still rum from multiple Jamaican distilleries gave us strong notes of pineapple and solvent, with subtler hints of acetic acid, berry, smoke, banana, rubber, flower, and ginger.
Rum-Bar Gold
This pot still rum from Worthy Park in Jamaica gave us strong notes of banana, with subtler hints of cereal, apple, varnish, allspice, coconut, toffee, and oak.
Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series 2010
This vintage installment in the Foursquare ECS line gave us notes of vanilla and oak, with subtler hints of brown sugar, ginger, and chemical.
Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series 2009
This vintage installment in the Foursquare ECS line gave us strong notes of vanilla, oak and brown sugar, with subtler hints of caramel and baking spices.
Foursquare Exceptional Cask Series 2008
This vintage installment in the Foursquare ECS line gave us strong notes of vanilla and oak, with subtler hints of allspice, coffee, ginger, and cinnamon.
Doorly’s 12
This pot column blend from Foursquare in Barbados gave us strong notes of vanilla and oak, with subtler hints of caramel, dried coconut, and baking spices.
We Tasted 9 Zero Proof Rums Blind; Here’s What We Reccomend.
We tasted 9 zero proof rums, and to be honest, none of them really tasted like rum, But some of them tasted quite good! And some of them were vile. We suffered so you can survive Dry January.
270º Botanicals Non-Alcoholic Cane Beverage White Caribbean Blend
This zero-proof rum from 270º Botanicals gave us strong notes of latex and pineapple, with subtler hints of bubblegum.
Lyre’s White Cane Spirit
This zero-proof rum from Lyre’s gave us strong notes of pineapple and coconut, with subtler hints of butter, ginger, flowers, chile, citrus.
ArKay Alcohol-Free White Rum
This zero proof rum from ArKay gave us strong notes of vanilla cake and refrigerant, with subtler hints of bubblegum, cotton candy, coconut, and crayon.
270º Botanicals Non-Alcoholic Cane Beverage Dark Caribbean Blend
This zero proof rum from 270º Botanicals gave us strong notes of latex and burnt meat, with subtler hints of caramel, artificial coffee, and nondescript nut.
Strykk Not R*m
This zero proof rum from Strykk gave us strong notes of mint, and ginger, with subtler hints of black tea, orange, vanilla and oak.