This is part [9/9] of the Rum Home Bar series, focused on helping you stock a thorough and versatile collection of rums for your home bar to maximize your home mixology and tiki adventures! These parts are presented in descending order of importance (in my opinion), so make sure you have 1 before 2, 2 before 3, and onwards!
We’ve finally come to the end of this series. Hopefully you have at least 8 bottles of rum now from each of the 8 previous distinct categories. If so, you’re all set for all the rum and tiki mixing you need!
If you’re now itching for even more rums, this list can help you get started with some unique options. These don’t cleanly fit into any of the categories previously listed, but are absolute favorites of mine. Highly recommended. There are of course many other rums I adore, but I’m keeping this list to ones that are affordable and not super rare or exclusive.
*|Wildcard Rums
- Plantation Stiggins Fancy Pineapple : you’ll never think of flavored rum the same after this. The entire pineapple (peel included) is used to create this, with a base of the Plantation Original Dark rum (amazing in itself!). Smells like a fresh pineapple!
- Doctor Bird : a recent release of funky Jamaican rum that spent some time in moscatel sherry casks. Absolutely incredible and one of my *favorite* bottles of all time. At $25, it’s a freakin steal
- Stolen Overproof : Limited edition release of overproof aged Jamaican rum from the master of funk: Hampden Estates (same place that produces Rum Fire and Smith&Cross). High octane (61.5%) and funk bomb? Yes please
- Barbancourt 15 : aged sugarcane-based rum from Haiti that is not as ‘grassy’ as most agricole rhums and makes one of my favorite Ti Punches